{"id":655975,"date":"2026-05-08T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655975\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:41:08","slug":"wardley-vs-dubois-frank-warren-on-being-in-both-corners-for-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655975\/","title":{"rendered":"Wardley vs Dubois: Frank Warren on being in both corners for world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel is a very introverted man. He’s not somebody who goes out boasting, and I know he’s taken some stick this week because of that quiet nature.<\/p>\n

I am protective of him. I always try to talk to him before we go into any media event, prepare him.<\/p>\n

He just doesn’t enjoy that part of the fight game. He’s really not into all the verbals.<\/p>\n

Whoever you are, you look at how people behave and what their make-up is. That’s if you want to get the best out of them. <\/p>\n

You have to be clever, not sly, in how you deal with it. Good interviewers do that. Daniel does all his talking in the ring.<\/p>\n

I don’t think he’ll ever change. His dad is his mentor<\/a> and that’s all he knows – he’ll look to his dad before answering the question and still usually does.<\/p>\n

That family is a tight unit. Some boxers, as they get successful, go partying but he doesn’t do any of that stuff.<\/p>\n

After he beat Anthony Joshua,<\/a> he just wanted to go home.<\/p>\n

I had to literally push him into the press room so the world could see him after that magnificent performance.<\/p>\n

Our job as promoters is to find something you can bring out and get it to the public, so they want to be on this journey with this fighter.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s difficult. With Prince Naseem Hamed, for example, it was easy. When I first met Naz, I knew exactly what I was going to do with him and how we were going to promote him.<\/p>\n

So some guys are easily promotable, others it can be hard work, but that’s the business we’re in.<\/p>\n

But Daniel has come out of his skin a bit lately. The funniest thing for me was when he did the head-to-head with Filip Hrgovic a few fights ago.<\/p>\n

Hrgovic said Daniel had no heart, and Daniel just said he was going to knock him out – using an expletive I wouldn’t like to repeat.<\/p>\n

I had never heard Daniel even swear before!<\/p>\n

Everybody there was like: ‘What is that?’ It was like getting the vicar to swear. He found a voice from within himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel is a very introverted man. He’s not somebody who goes out boasting, and I know he’s taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-655975","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\/655975","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=655975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}