{"id":555184,"date":"2026-03-23T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:30:07","slug":"carl-froch-doubles-down-on-wardley-vs-dubois-ko-prediction-hes-not-at-this-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555184\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch doubles down on Wardley vs Dubois KO prediction: “He’s not at this level”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Froch has maintained his knockout prediction for Fabio Wardley<\/a> vs Daniel Dubois<\/a>, which promises to be an all-action shootout between two monstrous punchers.<\/p>\n

The pair will square off for Wardley\u2019s WBO heavyweight title on May 9, headlining a Queensberry Promotions card at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live.<\/p>\n

Prior to becoming a world champion, Wardley had claimed a career-best victory over Joseph Parker, who entered their clash as a sizable favourite before suffering an 11th-round stoppage defeat last October.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the Ipswich man was elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBO champion<\/a> after Oleksandr Usyk opted to vacate the belt, rather than fulfil his mandatory obligation.<\/p>\n

This came several months after the Ukrainian\u2019s fifth-round finish over Dubois<\/a>, who was relieved of his IBF title in their rematch last July.<\/p>\n

Before that, \u2018Dynamite\u2019 had found himself on a ruthless run of stoppages over Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua, but could ultimately find no answer to the technical brilliance of Usyk.<\/p>\n

Based on his experience against the masterful southpaw, though, Hall of Famer Froch believes Dubois should have no problem figuring out the largely unorthodox style of Wardley.<\/p>\n

In fact, the former world super-middleweight champion has told NewBettingSites.uk<\/a> that the 28-year-old \u2013 who he has named favourite since their fight was announced \u2013 is poised to win in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel Dubois wins the fight by a knockout. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Wardley, who\u2019s got a big punch, who\u2019s never been beaten, wins, but I just think that the power and the experience at world level of Dubois will be too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook what he did to \u2018AJ\u2019. And he\u2019s been in there with Usyk as well, so he\u2019s learned a lot from those fights. I feel like Fabio Wardley doesn\u2019t belong in the ring at that level, but he\u2019s proved us wrong time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Dubois\u2019 experience, he has ultimately been made a slight underdog against Wardley, whose previous stoppages have come against the likes of Justis Huni and Frazer Clarke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Froch has maintained his knockout prediction for Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois, which promises to be an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-555184","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\/555184","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=555184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}