{"id":413813,"date":"2025-09-10T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413813\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:37:13","slug":"daniel-dubois-expected-ring-return-significantly-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413813\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Dubois expected ring return significantly delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not one to feel sorry for himself, former IBF world heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) recently teased that his ring return would be announced imminently.<\/p>\n

His long-term promoter met with Dubois earlier this month and warned fans to “Watch out for big fight news soon!”<\/a><\/p>\n

However, only days after that message was circulated online, cold water was very soon poured over the hot news, as it’s now been\u00a0revealed that the Brit is suffering from an injury.<\/p>\n

Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren told Talk Sport<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cThe fight we wanted to make was one between him and Joseph Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offered him [Dubois] the fight, but he is now injured. So I now doubt that he will fight again this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will likely return in January or February next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dubois was knocked out by Oleksandr Usyk in July, the Ukrainian taking just five rounds to repeat the feat from August 2023, when he stopped him the ninth.<\/p>\n

London’s Dubois was ready to jump back into a big fight this year, but he is now sidelined and won’t be back until 2026.<\/p>\n

Joseph Parker (36-3, 24 KOs) is fighting another Queensberry Promotions heavyweight instead – Fabio Wardley (19-0-1, 18 KOs).<\/p>\n

The WBO and WBA Interim champions will clash at the O2 Arena on October 25, live on DAZN<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking on the bout, Frank Warren feels the pair’s styles guarantee fireworks when they meet in Autumn.<\/p>\n

“Neither Joe or Fabio wanted to wait about and protect their positions, and credit to them both for this,” Warren\u00a0 praised.<\/p>\n

“I believe this is a genuine even-money fight with a mesh of styles that I am sure will be eye-catching and highly crowd-pleasing.<\/p>\n

“We promised to keep firing up this heavyweight division and we intend to keep all the contenders jockeying for position until the time come to fight for the ultimate prize.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not one to feel sorry for himself, former IBF world heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-413813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115181456364492489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}