{"id":126824,"date":"2025-09-10T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:55:09","slug":"injury-prevented-daniel-dubois-from-comeback-fight-against-joseph-parker-on-oct-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126824\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury prevented Daniel Dubois from comeback fight against Joseph Parker on Oct. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Warren has revealed that an injury to Daniel Dubois<\/a> prevented him from fighting Joseph Parker<\/a> on Oct. 25 instead of Fabio Wardley<\/a>.
The O2 Arena clash<\/a> between Queensberry-promoted duo Parker and Wardley on that date was officially confirmed at a launch press conference Tuesday in central London.
Parker (36-3, 24 KOs) is the WBO interim titleholder and next in line to face undisputed king Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>. The New Zealander had been hoping to get his shot next, but when an injury ruled Usyk out for another few months, Parker decided to fight in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Now Warren says it was a different British puncher who had emerged as their first option only for another injury to allow WBA interim champion Wardley (19-0-1, 18 KOs) to jump in and get his chance instead.<\/p>\n

Dubois\u2019 last outing ended in a crushing fifth round defeat to Usyk<\/a>, who recaptured the IBF title at Wembley Stadium on July 19. The 28-year-old has since split with trainer Don Charles and has been linked with a move to Essex-based Tony Sims.<\/p>\n

Whoever is in his corner, Dubois is not expected back in the ring until January earliest, which precluded him from facing Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel has got to get himself back in the swing but he won\u2019t fight again until the new year, he\u2019s got an injury,” Warren said. \u201cWe were trying to make Joe against Daniel for this October show, but he\u2019s injured and that\u2019s how Fabio jumped in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker and Dubois were infamously matched for a Riyadh Season clash on Feb. 22 at ANB Arena only for the Englishman to pull out during fight week citing illness. Parker, who lost out on his shot at the IBF title as a result, instead boxed last-gasp replacement Martin Bakole, who he stopped in the second round. That was the 33-year-old\u2019s last outing. <\/p>\n

Wardley, 30, returns to the ring for the first time since he stopped Justis Huni in the 10th round<\/a> of their dramatic June clash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Warren has revealed that an injury to Daniel Dubois prevented him from fighting Joseph Parker on Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-126824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}