Daniel Dubois is set for the biggest fight of his life as he takes on Oleksandr Usyk for the second time on July 19th.
Daniel Dubois will aim to prove his doubters wrong yet again as he embarks on the toughest challenge of his career to date.
The British champion was written off after a loss to Joe Joyce and another to Oleksandr Usyk in Poland in 2023, but has defied the odds and defeated Jarrell Miller, Filip Hrgovic, and Anthony Joshua in his last three outings.
Another man he demolished, just a year before the Joyce loss, was not a great opponent by any means, but was a man who, years later, gave a former interim world champion some tough questions to answer.
Daniel Dubois did in one round what took Dillian Whyte seven against Ebenezer Tetteh
In 2019, years after Dubois scored a 48-second KO, he faced Ebenezer Tetteh in his 13th fight.
Dubois beat Nathan Gorman for the British title in his last fight and went on to face the 19-0 Tetteh.
Tetteh, who scored a bizarre punchless KO years later, hadn’t faced anyone of note, but seemed to have the kind of experience that could take Dubois a few rounds. This was not the case.
Dubois breezed through Tetteh in two minutes and 10 seconds.
Five years later, Tetteh got his next high-profile fight in the form of a contest with Dillian Whyte in Gibraltar.
Whyte, who had faced only Christian Hammer in the two years before the match with Tetteh, was coming off of a positive PED test that axed his rematch with Joshua and a lengthy period of inactivity.
Despite these factors, ‘The Bodysnatcher’ was still expected to win, and to win early.
Though he won every round, Whyte was caught with many shots, and was dragged all the way into the seventh before the referee had seen enough.
Tetteh has fought once since, and was again destroyed in one round, this time by Frazer Clarke.
Dillian Whyte is facing the future of the division next
Whyte’s next contest, which very well could be his last given his latest performances and his age, will see him face the unbeaten and highly-touted Moses Itauma.
Itauma has not faced anyone on the level of Whyte, who has a huge breadth of experience with some top fighters in the division, and yet remains the favorite to win.
Whyte’s former opponent, Dave Allen, predicts Itauma will KO Whyte in the early rounds.
The pair will face off in Saudi Arabia on August 16th.