By: Sean Crose
No person thought IBF heavyweight titlist Daniel Dubois was a second fee opponent for Anthony Joshua. They only didn’t assume the person would actually lay a beating on the favored former titlist. But that’s precisely what Dubois did from the opening spherical on Saturday evening in London. Joshua, probably the most in style fighters within the sport – if not the one hottest – was by no means within the battle after getting tagged by his fellow Englishman early within the first. Throughout the matter of 4 rounds and several other seconds, Dubois went from being merely a revered fighter to probably the most effectively regarded heavyweights on this planet.
Now that the 27 12 months outdated is the toast of the game, he has quite a few profitable and excessive profile alternatives in entrance of him. First off, there’s a possible rematch with Joshua. Positive sufficient, Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn has said there’s a rematch clause between the 2 fighters. In that case, Dubois will doubtless head in to the ring the appreciable favourite. It could have the whiff of been there/performed that about it, however Dubois-Joshua 2 can be a serious battle, regardless. Plus, Joshua nonetheless has appreciable knockout energy, which suggests something is feasible.
Then, in fact, there’s the extremely anticipated rematch between WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk and former WBC world titlist Tyson Fury set to go down this December in Saudi Arabia. Being in possession of the IBF title means the winner should get via Dubois ought to be wish to be undisputed champion. And Dubois has already confirmed he’s no pushover. He arguably dropped Usyk after they first met a while in the past, though it was controversially dominated a knockdown. Usyk went on to win that battle, but it surely was no straightforward evening’s work for the undefeated Ukrainian.
As for Fury, the fighter often known as “The Gypsy King” would have an enormous top benefit over Dubois – however then once more, so did Joshua. If Dubois might get to Fury along with his jab he may be capable of comply with via with the type of photographs that broke down Joshua final weekend. That kind of factor, nevertheless, is less complicated mentioned than performed. That being mentioned, few issues are straightforward within the sport of boxing. Plus, Dubois is oozing confidence, as he has each proper to at this level in his profession. The query now may be, how a lot farther will it taken him? Mixed with the talent set the person has been placing on show currently, it will likely be attention-grabbing to search out out.
