{"id":499969,"date":"2026-03-28T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:16:07","slug":"heavyweight-who-sparred-both-wardley-and-dubois-names-who-hits-harder-hes-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499969\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight who sparred both Wardley and Dubois names who hits harder: “He’s dangerous”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fabio Wardley<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a> are set to collide for the WBO heavyweight world title in six weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

After being elevated to WBO world champion, Wardley is seeking to prove that he is a worthy heavyweight ruler, accepting a difficult, daring and potentially destructive dust-up with former IBF champion Dubois.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for Dubois, he bounces straight back into what will be a third consecutive world title contest, after losing his belt to Oleksandr Usyk in the summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Pro Boxing Fans<\/a>, Italian heavyweight Guido Vianello recalled sparring both men, revealing that Dubois is a stronger puncher than Wardley, but that the intelligence and movement of the Ipswich man is impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Dubois is in the right position and he throws his right-hand, it is stronger than Fabio, but a smart boxer makes a difficult fight [for Daniel] and Fabio is very smart. His movement is very difficult to understand for big guys like us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gladiator\u2019 also provided his fight prediction, believing that Wardley will get the nod on the scorecards.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel is a very dangerous heavyweight, his right-hand is very dangerous but Fabio is so smart. I was in the arena for Fabio Wardley versus [Joseph] Parker, with Team Parker, and Fabio was very smart for all the rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a great fight and it looks like Fabio is working well in the gym, his strength and conditioning is so good. So, I think that Fabio can win that fight with his smart head, his fast punches and he moves his head in a very strange position. I think that Wardley wins on points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wardley-Dubois takes place on Saturday, May 9, at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, with the undercard for the event now officially unveiled<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois are set to collide for the WBO heavyweight world title in six weeks\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-499969","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\/499969","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=499969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}