While Oleksandr Usyk meditated in silence or shadowboxing in a darkened room, Daniel Dubois allegedly passed through the rolls with sausage and tried to keep strangers away from the cartridge-thanks to Dad, he turned the fight day into a full Essex Garden party.
According to Simon Jordan TalkSport, Daniel’s dad, Stanley, thought that this cracking of the idea was to host seventy people in the family home. On a real day of fighting. Not a press incident. Not sending. Only enormous, clamorous knees in the house where Daniel still lives.
So, while the Usyk camp probably smelled of deep warmth and laser, Dubois apparently got stuck listening to the guy in the kitchen, asking if there would be jelly arrows before everyone went to Wembley.
Dubois is known for being a still boy – he stays for himself, does work, says little. The exact opposite of everything it was. It is said that the house was so packed and clamorous that Daniel had just got into the car and went on a ride. Do not spotless his head before the greatest fight in his life – to escape from his uncle Keith, asking if he could take his Missus and her partner for a ring walk.
Too many guests, no plan
Then the journey genius came. Stanley – apparently realizing that he created an unofficial fan zone in his own home – he tried to organize additional cars to take everyone to Wembley. It went out. So what did he do? Daniel himself led.
With the exception … the car was not accredited in terms of access of the fighter.
So the IBF heavyweight master finished through the Wembley parking lot, as if he were tardy for a job interview at the Heated Dog stand. Without Dawn. No tunnel walking. Just Daniel, probably wondering how it all went sideways.
Even better – apparently there is a video that Stanley has it with safety, refusing to let Daniel let in, unless his whole crowd does not come either. Nothing gives the tone a fight for the title of world champion, just like your dad trying to bribe the flight, Greggs sausage roll, while Sharon Live Streams is on Facebook shouting: “We were promised VIP!”
He went to the ring like a fan
While this madness worked, Uyk was somewhere composed, terrifying and clinical. No noise. No drama. He just appeared and did what he was doing – in the 5th round he flattened Dubois with a blow called “Ivan”. Not someone from the party. The competent, edged law that ended the night.
Meanwhile, Daniel looked like someone who did not have a moment of the whole room all day. His dad was reportedly barking over the coach during the fight – actual screams during the corner time.
Nothing helps during the heavyweight war, such as your elderly man who burden the upper part of the guy, earning to keep you alive.
This time Daniel was not outclassed because of a lack of heart – he was just buried under madness. You train for months, prepare yourself like a professional, and you still play the host on the day of the fight. Not fully preparing textbooks.
Leave your dad in a pub
Sometimes daddies just have to stay in the pub. Not the ring. Without barking on the trainer. Just parked in a corner with a mug, a packet of Scamp fries and zero access to the safety gate.
Daniel deserved the better. Next time without a guest list, without a buffet, without the rear seat trainer – just a straight road to the ring and nobody wins the last roll of sausage.
Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.
Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.
Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.
Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.
“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.
“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.
“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”
Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.
Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.
The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.
Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.
It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.
Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.
With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.
“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.
“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.
“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”
While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.
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