{"id":544792,"date":"2026-04-22T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:51:25","slug":"fabio-wardley-questions-daniel-dubois-before-may-9-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544792\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley Questions Daniel Dubois Before May 9 Title Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770669047_552_google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>During the DAZN Face Off special, Wardley gave a sharp assessment of Dubois\u2019 uneven track record in difficult fights. He accepted that Dubois has power, pedigree, and quality wins, but said there have also been nights when adversity changed his body language and output.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in some fights he\u2019s shown that he\u2019s shied away from the challenge in some situations, yeah. But in others, it\u2019s always about the roundabout with him,\u201d said Wardley about Dubois. \u201cSometimes you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to get because in other fights he has proven, bit down, like Hrgovic for example, and got stuck into that where it was back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wardley\u2019s reading was clear. Dubois is dangerous when he is confident, punching freely and fighting on the front foot. Once the fight becomes hard and uncomfortable, doubts can begin to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio knew exactly which buttons to press. By calling Dubois a \u201cfrontrunner,\u201d he is basically telling him, \u201cI know you\u2019re only dangerous when you\u2019re winning.\u201d He pointed to victories over Filip Hrgovic and Jarrell Miller as proof that Dubois can dig deep and win meaningful fights.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley suggested there is another side to Dubois that can surface when an opponent keeps coming and refuses to break. In his view, the issue is not skill but how Dubois responds when control slips away.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois isn\u2019t coming into this fight under the best conditions, considering he was knocked out in his previous fight by unified champion Oleksander Usyk. The bout is more about business. If Dubois had to earn the title shot, it would take too long, and who knows what the outcome would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the DAZN Face Off special, Wardley gave a sharp assessment of Dubois\u2019 uneven track record in difficult&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544792","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\/544792","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=544792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}