{"id":467598,"date":"2026-03-10T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:34:10","slug":"former-three-weight-world-champion-says-dubois-facing-wardley-wont-end-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467598\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Three Weight World Champion Says Dubois Facing Wardley ‘Won’t End Well’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former world champion and British boxing legend believes Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley<\/a> is a fight that won\u2019t end well for the challenger.<\/p>\n

This all-British heavyweight clash takes place in April and is the first defence Wardley is making of his WBO world title.<\/p>\n

He was elevated to full champion following this knockout win over Joseph Parker last year, and after Oleksandr Usyk vacated the belt.<\/p>\n

Usyk\u2019s last outing was knocking out Dubois last August to become history\u2019s only first-ever two-time undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

Dubois\u2019s last win came a year before that, back in September 2024, when he knocked out Anthony Joshua to defend his IBF belt.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Seconds Out, Duke McKenzie suggested Dubois should not be going straight into this one off the back of the defeat to Usyk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is a really tall order. If he had one or two, one the worst case, but two would have been better for him, [warm ups]. The first fight back, he\u2019s gunna be a bit nervous. Bit gun shy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get nailed with a shot, the last thing you want to do is start dancing around cause if the wind blows and you take a clip, all of a sudden the alarm bells will start ringing. Fabio Wardley, once he smells blood, he goes to town, he doesn\u2019t let you off the hook. So let\u2019s say that happens in the first or second round, with Dubois, he\u2019s gonna have a meltdown in the middle of that fight and I don\u2019t really think one is going to end too good for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wardley is the form fighter in the division right now,<\/a> having also stopped Justis Huni before Parker, and already has his sights set on further defences against the likes of Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former world champion and British boxing legend believes Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley is a fight that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467598","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\/467598","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=467598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}