Playbook Boxing<\/a>, Davison admitted that, upon reflection, he allowed the first fight between Wardley and Dubois to go on too long.<\/p>\n\u201cYeah, potentially it could have been [stopped sooner], I agree. I think that, looking back, it probably could have been stopped a couple of rounds earlier, yeah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould he be happy with that? I mean he wasn\u2019t happy that it got stopped when it got stopped but I am man enough to turn around and say that, yes, maybe I could\u2019ve stopped that one earlier, we all make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since that initial encounter, Davison been in the corner for Moses Itauma\u2019s shock defeat to Filip Hrgovic, as well as in the one-sided Dubois-Wardley rematch this month \u2013 which many have put down to Wardley\u2019s insufficient recovery time following their brutal first encounter.<\/p>\n
On the criticism in general, Davison said:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done, I think, 19 world title fights and lost five. One of them was Leigh Wood against Lara, which very quickly got turned around. Then there were the two fights with Fabio and Dubois.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I feel like, when you actually put context to it, Fabio\u2019s achieved something that\u2019s never been done before. He\u2019s broken records. Someone with zero amateur fights, four white-collar fights, becomes heavyweight champion, and essentially he\u2019s lost in the Champions League, so to speak.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t talk about the victories, like the Joe Parker one, where he should never have won that fight \u2013 on paper, I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Moses versus Filip Hrgovic is the other one. Again, a little bit of context on that. If I was to say the names Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson, automatically people would say you can\u2019t put Moses in that category. But he was putting himself in that category with that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davison will have the chance to make it sixth time lucky when he trains Anthony Joshua for his blockbuster clash with Tyson Fury on Friday, December 11, as the vacant WBA (Super) heavyweight world title will be up for grabs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Davison has come under fire in recent weeks after suffering his third heavyweight world title defeat of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821910","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\/821910","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=821910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}