Daniel Dubois scored a career-best win when he upset the percentages to defeat Filip Hrgovic on the weekend, lining him up for a shot at Anthony Joshua and the expected-to-be vacant IBF world title. Simply days after the victory, his promoter has confirmed that talks are underway, for what will probably be a 3rd heavyweight title contest between two Britons in as a few years.
Hrgovic and Dubois had been poised to combat each other for the vacant IBF belt, however the sanctioning physique are but to strip Oleksandr Usyk of the title, which rendered Hrgovic-Dubois as a last eliminator. As a substitute, the winner was all however promised the chance to face Anthony Joshua at Wembley in a extra profitable proposal that ensures a mammoth payday.
It was the Croatian who began strongest, touchdown straight punches at will onto the 26-year-old Brit however as soon as once more Dubois proved that any doubts over his grit and coronary heart are misplaced as he bit down on his defend to combat by way of the hearth.
‘Triple D’ dealt Hrgovic with a sizeable lower and took the reigns of the competition with each fingers throughout the mid-rounds, virtually knocking his former sparring associate out on the finish of the seventh-round, earlier than the physician waived off the bout within the eighth as Hrgovic’s lower worsened.
Deontay Wilder’s loss within the main-event appeared to take away any considerations that Dubois wouldn’t get the possibility to combat Anthony Joshua – who was at ringside and Frank Warren advised talkSPORT that the wheels are already in movement for the all-British heavyweight world title affair.
“Daniel Dubois proved all his doubters flawed and gained the IBF ‘interim’ belt. He hopefully will probably be combating AJ within the autumn, we’re engaged on that. He did nicely.
“We’d adore it to be within the UK, they’re two Brits, it might be an important combat to placed on at Wembley. We do have a press convention afterward this month, hopefully then we are able to make some bulletins.
“Joshua was ringside and I used to be sitting subsequent to him in truth. I mentioned to him, ‘Proper, come on, let’s get this on.’ We’ve bought discussions occurring so hopefully we are able to get it over the road.”
“Him and Joshua is gonna be a powerful combat as a result of they’re each large, large punchers.”
The date being touted is September twenty first as ‘Joshua goals to develop into boxing’s fifth three-time heavyweight world champion and guarantee he will get an alternative to problem for the winner of Fury-Usyk II for the undisputed title, while Dubois seeks to show his value as one of many division’s elite at simply 26-years-old
As Warren mentions, all will probably be revealed on the launch press convention in London on June twenty fifth, though it’s understood that suspicions that Naoya Inoue might additionally seem on the cardboard are vast of the mark, with Inoue as an alternative anticipated to headline in Japan in opposition to T.J. Doheny, earlier than dealing with Sam Goodman in December – probably in Riyadh.
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