{"id":462841,"date":"2026-03-07T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:13:07","slug":"heavyweight-who-sparred-wardley-and-dubois-gives-fight-verdict-he-has-unbelievable-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462841\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight who sparred Wardley and Dubois gives fight verdict: &#8220;He has unbelievable power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois collide in Manchester in two months\u2019 time in what a sparring partner of both men calls a \u2018barnstormer.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Champion Wardley takes on challenger Dubois in one of the year\u2019s standout heavyweight bouts, with extreme power in each corner and questions for both men to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley was elevated from interim to full WBO champion, and is looking to satisfy fans with a dangerous first defence. The best way to do that is by facing a genuine knockout puncher \u2013 something his record arguably lacks so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cm2lmd1rj8no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">As for Dubois, the 28-year-old once again faced questions of his heart and grit under pressure when he lost for a second time to Oleksandr Usyk last year.<\/a> A career-best performance prior to that against Anthony Joshua reminded us how devastating he can be, but many feel he has to deliver more consistency.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xg_4HRiFt34\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seconds Out,<\/a> fan favourite heavyweight Johnny Fisher looked back on his experiences sparring both men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat fight. Fabio \u2013 I\u2019ve seen his rise. I\u2019ve sparred him many times in the earlier days, four, five years ago. Daniel, obviously I\u2019ve been around him in the Sims gym, been around and sparred him before that as well. It\u2019s a fantastic match-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have written off Fabio Wardley many times. That\u2019s probably not a wise thing to do, so I\u2019m not going to do that. And Daniel Dubois \u2013 unbelievable, electric power that I\u2019ve felt myself \u2026 It\u2019s a barnstormer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fisher, who did not make a prediction, went on to praise Wardley more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Fabio] is everything that we see that he is \u2013 a warrior. His mental toughness, coming back from looking like you\u2019re in trouble, to swinging and getting someone out of there\u2026 He\u2019s also a great boxing technician, we\u2019ve got to give him credit for that fight with Parker as well \u2013 not just knocking someone out, showing the skills to be a world class heavyweight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fight has all the ingredients of a British heavyweight classic, with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-three-man-hit-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the winner targeting another major scalp later this year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois collide in Manchester in two months\u2019 time in what a sparring partner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462841","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\/462841","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=462841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}