By: Sean Crose
No one thought IBF heavyweight titlist Daniel Dubois was a second charge opponent for Anthony Joshua. They simply 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, one of the common fighters within the sport – if not the one hottest – was by no means within the struggle after getting tagged by his fellow Englishman early within the first. Throughout the matter of 4 rounds and a number of other seconds, Dubois went from being merely a revered fighter to one of the nicely regarded heavyweights on the earth.
Now that the 27 yr previous 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 acknowledged there’s a rematch clause between the 2 fighters. In that case, Dubois will possible head in to the ring the appreciable favourite. It could have the whiff of been there/carried out that about it, however Dubois-Joshua 2 can be a serious struggle, regardless. Plus, Joshua nonetheless has appreciable knockout energy, which implies 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 by means of 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 struggle, nevertheless it 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 may get to Fury together with his jab he would possibly be capable to comply with by means of with the type of photographs that broke down Joshua final weekend. That type of factor, nevertheless, is less complicated stated than carried out. That being stated, 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 is likely to be, how a lot farther will it taken him? Mixed with the ability set the person has been placing on show these days, it will likely be attention-grabbing to search out out.
