Fury showed true colours to Dubois as he faced | Boxing News

John Fury rushed to Daniel Dubois’ defence as he took a knee during his combat with Joe Joyce, whereas others accused the Briton of ‘quitting’. ‘DDD’ was 15 fights unbeaten when he met with the ‘Juggernaut’ in November 2020, with the Commonwealth, WBC Silver, WBO International and European heavyweight titles on the road.

And whereas many combat followers have been anticipating dominance from Dubois, given his resume of 14 profession knockouts on the time, the competition performed out in a contrasting state of affairs. Joyce saved Dubois at bay together with his patented jab for probably the most half, whereas swelling his opponent’s eye shut by the midway stage of the bout.

Joyce secured a TKO victor within the tenth spherical of the competition, when Dubois took a knee within the centre of the ring off a back of one more well-placed jab. Dubois stayed down for the rely, finally dropping the combat in doing so, whereas some of the heavyweight’s rivals and followers branded him a ‘quitter’.

However, what many didn’t realise on the time was that Dubois had truly fractured his orbital bones and suffered nerve injury during the competition – with Fury defending his resolution to finish the bout prematurely. Speaking to talkSPORT, the daddy of Tyson Fury defined: “The lad done very, very well.

“He’s 23 years outdated. It’s solely a boxing match. He’s not gonna lose his eye over a boxing match, is he? I believe he’s carried out the proper factor. Joe Joyce is a gigantic man and he was hitting onerous with the jab. Who is aware of? It might be a career-threatening damage.

“You’re not gonna lose your career over a boxing match, are you?” Dubois’ supervisor, Frank Warren additionally took to social media to defend his fighter, writing: “Daniel Dubois will be back. He is still only 23 and has a huge and successful career ahead of him.

“He took a risk, and this time it didn’t come off. Full credit for preventing his coronary heart out as long as he did with a fractured orbital bone and nerve injury round his eye.” Meanwhile, Dubois himself has since explained that being branded a ‘quitter’ didn’t bother him in the grand scheme of things.

Speaking with TNT Sports in 2021, the heavyweight said: “Being known as a quitter and all of that, it did not trouble me in any respect actually. I simply did not need to close the show on a efficiency like that as a result of I do know I’m higher than that.”

Since his loss to Joyce, Dubois has gone on to build a remarkable pro-boxing record of 22-2, only faltering once more in a controversial knockout loss to Oleksandr Usyk in 2023 – a combat the onerous hitter believes might have went in his favour ought to his fifth-round knockdown haven’t been ruled as a low blow.

Fast ahead to February 2025, and Dubois was set to defend his IBF heavyweight title towards Joseph Parker on Saturday evening. However, ‘DDD’ was pressured to pull out on the eleventh hour after falling unwell 48 hours earlier than the primary bell.

Instead, will probably be Scotland-based Congolese Martin Bakole who will face Parker on the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia after he obtained the call-up on extraordinarily late discover.