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Daniel Dubois () is a British
professional boxer
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who has held the
WBA (Regular)
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heavyweight
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Boxing Professional
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title since June 2022. He has previously held multiple regional heavyweight championships, including the
British
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and
Commonwealth
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titles from 2019 to 2020. As an
amateur
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, he was a five-time national junior titlist and British champion. He is known for his punching power and currently holds a 95%
knockout
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-to-win percentage.
Amateur career
His father took him to the boxing gym at the age of nine to stay out of trouble in
South London
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.
He trains at the Peacock Gym in
Canning Town
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, working under Tony and Martin Bowers.
Dubois had around 75 amateur bouts. He won two English schoolboy titles, two junior
ABAs plus the CYPs. Won the British Seniors. He spent a year and a half as part of the GB Elite set-up in
Sheffield
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and boxed for England around a dozen times, competing at the European Youth championships twice and winning gold medals at multi-nations in Tammer (Finland) and Brandenburg (Germany).
He left the amateurs early with only a handful of senior amateur bouts. He was on the
Great Britain Olympic team
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with the plan to compete at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
, however he opted to turn professional instead,
signing with boxing promoter
Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions.
Professional career
Early career
Dubois' first fight as a professional was a
knockout
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win in the first 35 seconds of the first round against Marcus Kelly in April 2017.
In his fourth fight, he knocked out Mauricio Barragan, a late substitute, in the second round to win the vacant
WBC Youth
heavyweight
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Boxing Professional
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title.
In October 2017, he knocked out AJ Carter in the first round to claim the
Southern Area heavyweight title.
He won the English heavyweight title in his eighth fight in June 2018, beating journeyman Tom Little by stoppage in the fifth round.
He won the
WBO European title in March 2019, beating former WBO heavyweight title challenger,
Razvan Cojanu, in two rounds.
Dubois was taken the full distance for the first time by veteran
Kevin Johnson in October 2018, winning on points after ten rounds,
and beat Richard Lartey in the fourth round in April 2019.
In July 2019, he beat
Nathan Gorman
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Early life
Gorman was born on ...
by knockout in the fifth round to improve his record to 12 wins, 11 by stoppage, and win the vacant
British heavyweight title.
Boxing journalist
Steve Bunce
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Career
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said he “...fought like an old, seasoned bruiser, his feet flawless, his jab a stiff weapon inherited from relics of the ring".
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boxing correspondent Mike Costello described him as "...one of the brightest prospects in the sport at the moment."
In his next fight, Dubois faced Ebenezer Tetteh. Dubois blasted Tetteh out in the first round, while dropping him twice in the process.
After that, Dubois faced Japanese heavyweight Kyotaro Fujimoto. Fujimoto was overmatched from the beginning, fighting to survive from the opening bell. In the second round, Dubois connected on a right hand that knocked out Fujimoto.
On 29 August, 2020, Dubois had another dominant win, this time against Ricardo Snijders. Dubois managed to drop his opponent three times in the first round. The first round would end up being the last that Snijders would survive, as the referee waved the fight off after Dubois dropped his opponent for the fourth time.
Rise up the ranks
On 28 November 2020, Dubois made the first defence of his British and Commonwealth titles, alongside his WBC Silver and WBO International titles, in a highly anticipated domestic matchup against
Joe Joyce at the
Church House
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in London, with the vacant
European title also on the line. In a closely contested fight that had implications for future world title hopes, Dubois was landing the harder and cleaner punches while Joyce stayed at range behind powerful jabs. The repeated accurate jabs from Joyce caused swelling to the left eye of Dubois from the second round. In the tenth, after another hard jab landed on his now-swollen-shut eye, Dubois went down on one knee, allowing the referee to count him out to suffer the first loss of his career. Following the fight it was revealed that Dubois had suffered a broken left orbital bone and nerve damage around the eye.
After a layoff of over six months, Dubois returned to the ring on 5 June 2021 to face
Bogdan Dinu
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Biography
Dinu is also an Independent Special Actions and Intervention Service (''SIIAS'') agent.
Professional career
He turned pro in 2008.
On 13 December 2013, Dinu ...
in
Telford
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. Dubois won the bout by second-round knockout, winning the vacant
WBA interim
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heavyweight title in the process. The win also made him the
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for the WBA (Regular) title held by undefeated
Trevor Bryan
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Early life
Trevor Bryan was born on August 23, 1989 in Albany, New York.
He began boxing at the age of 11, and had a ...
.
Dubois made his US debut on the undercard of
Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley
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on 29 August 2021. He faced Joe Cusumano, and prevailed via first-round technical knockout victory. In his post-fight interview, he expressed interest in challenging
Trevor Bryan
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Early life
Trevor Bryan was born on August 23, 1989 in Albany, New York.
He began boxing at the age of 11, and had a ...
for his WBA (Regular) title.
WBA (Regular) heavyweight champion
On 11 June 2022, Dubois defeated
Trevor Bryan
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Early life
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He began boxing at the age of 11, and had a ...
by knockout in the fourth round to become the
WBA (Regular)
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heavyweight champion in front of approximately 500 spectators at
Casino Miami
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in Florida on a card promoted by
Don King
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.
Personal life
Dubois' father is from
Grenada
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. His younger sister
Caroline Dubois is also a boxer. She has represented Great Britain and in 2018 became the -60 kg European Junior,
World Youth and
Youth Olympic champion.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
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Daniel Dubois – Profile, News Archive & Current Rankingsa
Box.Live
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Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Greenwich
English male boxers
English sportspeople of Grenadian descent
Boxers from Greater London
Heavyweight boxers
British Boxing Board of Control champions
Commonwealth Boxing Council champions
1997 births