{"id":414703,"date":"2026-02-08T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:16:06","slug":"daniel-dubois-in-talks-for-heavyweight-title-comeback-fight-sign-the-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414703\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois in talks for heavyweight title comeback fight: “Sign the contract”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Dubois<\/a> may be on the verge of securing his comeback opponent.<\/p>\n

The big-punching Brit lost his IBF Heavyweight World title via stoppage against Oleksandr Usyk last year, his second attempt at beating the Ukrainian. Before that, however, Dubois was on a run of form perhaps unrivalled in the division, beating Jarrell Miller, FIlip Hrgovic and Anthony Joshua all inside the distance.<\/p>\n

Having teamed back up with trainer Don Charles following a brief split, 28-year-old from London is now solely focused on becoming a two-time titleholder in the division, and he may get his shot sooner than expected.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Instagram off the back of reports that he could face countryman and WBO champ Fabio Wardley next, Dubois urged Wardley the fight over the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go Fabio Wardley. Sign the contract, let\u2019s get it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over on X<\/a>, manager Sam Jones expressed the same sentiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to go it\u2019s over to Fabio and his team. But we are good to go What a fight for the fans this will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wardley was upgraded from interim to full champion following a career-best win over Joseph Parker last year<\/a>. He has made it clear that he is looking to face the very best, and wants to prove his worth as a champion inside the ropes. A first defence against Dubois, even despite some inactivity and coming off a defeat, is a dangerous one.<\/a><\/p>\n

Promoter Frank Warren, who represents both men, is targeting a return for each man in late April or May. Whether or not they will face looking across the ring at one another remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois may be on the verge of securing his comeback opponent. The big-punching Brit lost his IBF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414703","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=414703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}