{"id":429588,"date":"2026-02-17T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:41:13","slug":"derek-chisora-sees-only-one-winner-in-wardley-vs-dubois-itll-be-a-long-night-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429588\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora sees only one winner in Wardley vs Dubois: “It’ll be a long night for him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In just three months\u2019 time, Great Britain will stage another blockbuster heavyweight title showdown, as Fabio Wardley<\/a> makes the first defence of his WBO crown against former IBF world champion Daniel Dubois<\/a>. And now Derek Chisora<\/a> has weighed in with his prediction for the clash \u2014 firmly backing one man to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n

Fabio Wardley halted Joseph Parker<\/a> in an upset win back in October to both retain his undefeated record and simultaneously become the WBO interim heavyweight champion, seemingly teeing up a showdown with then undisputed titleholder, Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the Ukrainian instead opted to vacate the WBO strap, rather than face Wardley, meaning that the Ipswich fan-favourite was upgraded to full WBO world champion to cap off a remarkable 2025.<\/p>\n

This year, Wardley has a new mission, as he seeks to prove that he is a worthy champion by asserting himself as an elite operator in the division and overcoming some of boxing\u2019s biggest names.<\/p>\n

As a result, the 31-year-old has opted to take on fellow Brit, Dubois, in a difficult voluntary defence of his new belt that will take place in Manchester.<\/p>\n

In an interview with BoxNation<\/a>, heavyweight veteran Chisora explained why he believes Wardley will come out on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Fabio and Daniel [is a] great fight. I see Fabio winning it. Fabio\u2019s tough. Fabio hasn\u2019t got boxing skills; what he has is f***ing heart, bro. When you fight somebody with heart, it\u2019s going to be a long night. He got hit [against Parker], but he carries on coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wardley-Dubois is scheduled for Saturday, May 9<\/a>, at the Co-op Live Arena, for what will be the sixth heavyweight world title fight to have taken place in Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In just three months\u2019 time, Great Britain will stage another blockbuster heavyweight title showdown, as Fabio Wardley makes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429588","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\/429588","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=429588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}