{"id":513637,"date":"2026-03-04T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513637\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:40:06","slug":"daniel-dubois-will-land-the-big-one-to-ko-fabio-wardley-and-become-champion-says-dave-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513637\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois will ‘land the big one’ to KO Fabio Wardley and become champion says Dave Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In two months\u2019 time, Fabio Wardley will defend his WBO world title against Daniel Dubois in one of the most anticipated heavyweight fights of the year.<\/p>\n

The two knockout artists are set to meet at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live<\/a>, with Wardley looking to legitimise himself as champion after being promoted from holding the interim belt last year. Dubois, coming off a loss to Oleksandr Usyk, has the chance to hold a heavyweight title for the second time at 28-years-old.<\/p>\n

Speaking on TalkSport Boxing<\/a>, 35-fight heavyweight Allen, who has sparred Dubois in the past, said the belts will change hands on the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Dubois wins. I always pick against Wardley though, because common sense dictates that Fabio Wardley shouldn\u2019t be beating the men that he\u2019s beating. But he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference between Dubois and Wardley\u2019s opponents \u2013 Huni, Parker, Gorman, all brilliant boxers \u2013 they\u2019re not punchers like Dubois is. And I think Fabio gets hit too much. I think against Dubois he can\u2019t afford to take even one. I think Dubois will do him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a previous prediction, Allen said he believes Dubois will \u2018land the big one first\u2019<\/a> in a battle of the power punchers to end it inside six rounds.<\/p>\n

In this latest interview, however, the fan-favourite heavyweight from Doncaster says he is aware that his prediction will likely fuel Wardley to prove his doubter wrong yet again.<\/p>\n

\u201cFabio will probably be happy to hear that, because I\u2019ve said it like eight times now and I\u2019ve been wrong every time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In two months\u2019 time, Fabio Wardley will defend his WBO world title against Daniel Dubois in one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-513637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}