{"id":627532,"date":"2026-06-08T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:03:09","slug":"winner-of-dubois-vs-wardley-2-could-go-straight-into-another-all-british-heavyweight-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627532\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner Of Dubois vs Wardley 2 Could Go Straight Into Another All British Heavyweight Title Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the impending rematch between Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley could be in line to face one of the sport\u2019s most exciting heavyweight contenders.<\/p>\n<p>The British heavyweight duo produced one of the best fights of this year when they locked horns for the WBO world heavyweight title at the Co-Op Live Arena in Manchester last month.<\/p>\n<p>Wardley started the domestic clash very impressively as he floored Dubois in rounds 1 and 3, with many believing the Ipswich-native was on course to make the first defence of his world title in style.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois brushed the knockdowns off, however, and gained control of the bout going into the later rounds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/mcguigan-advice-to-wardley-after-dubois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before he eventually stopped Wardley in the 11th to become a two-time heavyweight champion. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the hard-hitting duo set to meet in a rematch later this year, as per Wardley\u2019s contract, promoter Frank Warren has revealed there is a chance that Moses Itauma could face the winner.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Seconds Out, Warren confirmed Itauma will return to the ring at the end of August before revealing that the 21-year-old star may be offered the opportunity to face the winner of Dubois vs. Wardley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoses will be fighting on the 29th of August, that\u2019s the intention. We\u2019ll see what happens there, we\u2019re working on a couple of things, so hopefully we\u2019ll be in a position to announce that one again soon. You know, he\u2019s unbelievable, all the things that he\u2019s done and I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some great fights to be made between him and maybe the winner of that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Itauma established himself as the number one challenger to the WBO heavyweight title back in March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13525682\/moses-itauma-stops-jermaine-franklin-for-first-time-with-vicious-heavyweight-victory-in-manchester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">when he became the first man to stop America\u2019s Jermaine Franklin in the 5th round of their bout in Manchester.<\/a> The frontrunner for his August opponent remains Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner of the impending rematch between Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley could be in line to face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627532","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\/627532","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=627532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}