{"id":726942,"date":"2026-01-28T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:11:10","slug":"don-charles-names-frontrunner-for-daniel-dubois-next-fight-after-return-as-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726942\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Charles names frontrunner for Daniel Dubois next fight after return as trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Charles has provided a big update on who Daniel Dubois<\/a> will face in his next fight.<\/p>\n

The past 24 hours has seen Charles make a surprise return as the trainer of Dubois, just a few months on from the pair parting ways after \u2018DDD\u2019 suffered a fifth round knockout defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

Dubois had began working with Tony Sims instead<\/a>, but before the duo have even been able to have a fight together, the former IBF heavyweight champion will now reunite with Charles.<\/p>\n

April has been touted as when Dubois will potentially return to the ring, and Charles has now told Seconds Out<\/a> that the rumours of a bout against Zhilei Zhang could indeed come to fruition.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat is [the case]. It\u2019s publicly documented. We\u2019re literally 24 hours since I was reinstated so there\u2019s a lot of things I\u2019ve got to talk in point, and one of them is the next opponent for Daniel. Zhang I believe is the frontrunner. You can say that yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is finalised from my understanding, so we\u2019re just going to get on with it, get our heads down and train, and whoever they bring I will advise my client the fighter and the managers accordingly to say we should take this fight oe not take this fight, that\u2019s what I\u2019m paid for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Zhang was last in action in February 2025, suffering a stoppage loss to Agit Kabayel, but prior to that he had claimed notable victories over Deontay Wilder and Joe Joyce, so a clash against Dubois would certainly interest fight fans.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don Charles has provided a big update on who Daniel Dubois will face in his next fight. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-726942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115974313359503147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726942","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=726942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}