{"id":758712,"date":"2026-09-03T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758712\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:28:17","slug":"dave-allen-sums-up-fabio-wardleys-chances-of-beating-daniel-dubois-in-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758712\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Allen sums up Fabio Wardley’s chances of beating Daniel Dubois in rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Allen has considered whether Fabio Wardley<\/a> is wise to enter an immediate rematch with Daniel Dubois<\/a> after losing his WBO world title in such brutal fashion.<\/p>\n

The Ipswich man was elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full heavyweight champion last year, not long after his stunning 11th-round stoppage of Joseph Parker in October.<\/p>\n

Instead of pursuing a standard first defence, though, Wardley jumped straight back into the deep end and locked horns with the hard-hitting Dubois last May.<\/p>\n

The gamble then looked as if it might pay off, as Wardley dropped his man in the first 10 seconds before scoring a second knockdown in round three.<\/p>\n

To his immense credit, however, Dubois managed to weather the early storm and established his jab, proving to be the accurate and technical operator.<\/p>\n

By round 11, proceedings had become considerably one-sided, and Wardley was ultimately stopped on his feet by referee Howard Foster.<\/p>\n

Yet despite enduring such a punishing beating, during which he showed tremendous spirit, Wardley decided to activate his rematch clause<\/a> just a few days removed from their contest.<\/p>\n

Speaking with talkSPORT<\/a>, though, fellow heavyweight Allen suggested the 31-year-old should not be facing Dubois at London\u2019s O2 Arena on October 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of the best and most brutal heavyweight fights I\u2019ve ever seen. I personally would be overly cautious and say [the rematch has come] too soon [for Wardley].<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was Fabio Wardley, I wouldn\u2019t go back in with Daniel Dubois. In the first two rounds of [their first fight], Daniel looked a little bit tentative but was warming into the fight. After a couple of rounds, he was brilliant \u2013 and it [became] one-sided.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen went on to commend the bravery of Wardley but maintained his view that an immediate rematch with Dubois is not in his best interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Allen has considered whether Fabio Wardley is wise to enter an immediate rematch with Daniel Dubois after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758712","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\/758712","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=758712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}