{"id":573783,"date":"2026-05-08T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573783\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:48:09","slug":"wardley-vs-dubois-daniel-dubois-weighs-in-at-career-heavy-18st-for-fabio-wardley-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573783\/","title":{"rendered":"Wardley vs Dubois: Daniel Dubois weighs in at career-heavy 18st for Fabio Wardley fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Dubois would not to be drawn into a war of words after weighing in at a career-heavy 18st (115kg) for Saturday’s all-British heavyweight world-title fight against Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n

Wardley, who came in at 17st 4lb<\/a> (110kg), will make the first defence of his WBO title at Manchester’s Co-op Live in a mouthwatering contest between two dangerous knockout artists.<\/p>\n

The pair weighed in at the Bowlers Exhibition Centre before coming face-to-face in what organisers branded ‘The Cauldron’ – a circular, illuminated stage designed to intensify one final staredown in front of a live audience.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to put him to sleep tomorrow,” said Dubois, 28, although – as he has throughout fight week – offered little beyond brief answers.<\/p>\n

Dubois – twitching his shoulders, stretching his neck and constantly fidgeting – insisted the “talking was done”, while Wardley rolled his eyes and smiled beside him.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Ipswich fighter then took aim at Dubois’ previous defeats by Joe Joyce and Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

“He does vary but some performances he’s done well,” Wardley said. <\/p>\n

“He didn’t do well against Usyk. Once you’ve opened that door and shown that bit of your character, it leaves people like me to expose it.”<\/p>\n

Cries of “Oh Fabio Wardley” rang around the venue from several hundred supporters – most backing the champion – as Wardley raised his arms and urged them to increase the volume during an otherwise uneventful face-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois would not to be drawn into a war of words after weighing in at a career-heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573783","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\/573783","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=573783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}