{"id":677793,"date":"2026-05-18T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:23:06","slug":"former-daniel-dubois-trainer-shane-mcguigan-predicts-moses-itauma-fight-after-watching-them-spar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677793\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Daniel Dubois trainer Shane McGuigan predicts Moses Itauma fight after watching them spar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Daniel Dubois<\/a> trainer Shane McGuigan has assessed how the newly-crowned WBO champion would fare against heavyweight prodigy Moses Itauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old became a two-time world champion last Saturday, twice climbing off the canvas to dethrone Fabio Wardley<\/a> with a brutal 11th-round finish in Manchester.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Dubois silenced any doubts over his fighting spirit while also maintaining a commanding jab, using it to outbox Wardley through large spells of their encounter.<\/p>\n

With \u2018Dynamite\u2019 having claimed the WBO title, though, there is now a chance that he gets ordered to face leading contender Itauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair shared multiple rounds of sparring while Dubois was trained by McGuigan, who oversaw the Londoner\u2019s stoppage victories over Trevor Bryan and Kevin Lerena in 2022.<\/p>\n

Back then, Itauma was only around 17 or 18 years old, and is now considered a genuine contender following his fifth-round finish over Jermaine Franklin in March.<\/p>\n

Dubois, meanwhile, has since gone on to defeat the likes of Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic<\/a>, Anthony Joshua and now Wardley, all by stoppage and under the watchful eye of head coach Don Charles.<\/p>\n

But despite Dubois\u2019 improvements in recent years, former trainer McGuigan has told Boxing News that he feels Itauma would be a step too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a great fight for Daniel. Daniel\u2019s a guy that has to know he can get to you.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst Hrgovic, he knew he could get to him \u2013 he didn\u2019t get discouraged. Against Miller, he knew he could get to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, against [Oleksandr] Usyk, he didn\u2019t believe [he could get to him]. And I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll have that belief against Moses.<\/p>\n

\u201cSparring\u2019s one thing, but he\u2019ll struggle with [Itauma] a lot. If it goes past five or six rounds then it\u2019s a completely different fight, but you\u2019ve got to get past five or six rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dubois has previously been stopped by Usyk on two separate occasions, suggesting he would encounter similar difficulty against another dynamic southpaw, this time in the form of a 21-year-old Itauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Daniel Dubois trainer Shane McGuigan has assessed how the newly-crowned WBO champion would fare against heavyweight prodigy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-677793","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\/677793","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=677793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}