Daniel Dubois v Bogdan Dinu

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Daniel Dubois battles Bogdan Dinu for WBA interim belt in first fight since defeat by Joe Joyce

Daniel Dubois takes on Romanian Bogdan Dinu for the WBA 'interim' heavyweight title as the 23-year-old contender attempts to climb back up the ranking following stoppage loss against British rival Joe Joyce.

Daniel Dubois will battle Bogdan Dinu for the WBA 'interim' heavyweight title in his first fight since suffering a fractured eye socket in a stoppage loss to Joe Joyce.

The 23-year-old's unbeaten record was ended by Joyce last November as he was counted out in the 10th round after suffering a career-threatening injury.

But Dubois has since made a full recovery, teaming up with new trainer Mark Tibbs, and can propel himself back up the rankings with a victory over Dinu on June 5.

The Romanian holds a record of 20 victories, with two defeats, which came against Jarrell Miller and Kubrat Pulev.

Dinu, a former sparring partner for Anthony Joshua, has since racked up two stoppage victories.

Dubois had claimed the British and Commonwealth titles with 14 knockouts in 15 victories before suffering his first professional loss to Joyce.

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Daniel Dubois battles Bogdan Dinu for WBA interim belt in first fight since defeat by Joe Joyce

Daniel Dubois takes on Romanian Bogdan Dinu for the WBA 'interim' heavyweight title as the 23-year-old contender attempts to climb back up the ranking following stoppage loss against British rival Joe Joyce.

Daniel Dubois will battle Bogdan Dinu for the WBA 'interim' heavyweight title in his first fight since suffering a fractured eye socket in a stoppage loss to Joe Joyce.

The 23-year-old's unbeaten record was ended by Joyce last November as he was counted out in the 10th round after suffering a career-threatening injury.

But Dubois has since made a full recovery, teaming up with new trainer Mark Tibbs, and can propel himself back up the rankings with a victory over Dinu on June 5.

The Romanian holds a record of 20 victories, with two defeats, which came against Jarrell Miller and Kubrat Pulev.

Dinu, a former sparring partner for Anthony Joshua, has since racked up two stoppage victories.

Dubois had claimed the British and Commonwealth titles with 14 knockouts in 15 victories before suffering his first professional loss to Joyce.

https://www.skysports.com/boxing/new...t-by-joe-joyce

Good luck to him, unfortunate in his last bout but thats boxing, showing courage to take this one.

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Daniel Dubois raring to go after eye injury and says he is still ‘not too far behind the top guys’ like Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury and world title shot is in his sights

Seven months after his difficult loss to Joe Joyce, Daniel Dubois is preparing to return to the ring again.

The 23-year-old has recovered from the horrible eye injury that forced him to take a knee and end the contest – now he’s raring to go.

“I had to make an instant decision,” he explained to talkSPORT on the end to his fight in November, which could have seriously damaged his eyesight.

“Looking back, it’s maybe the best thing that could have happened. I still have my eyesight and the injuries have healed and ready to come back.”

He also feels a world title shot still looms over the horizon. First, though, he must see off Bodgan Dinu on 5 June.

“Very excited,” Dubois told talkSPORT of fighting again. “I’ve missed it in a way. I’ve missed competing. I love fighting, I love competing and going for the ‘big one’ as the call it and chasing that glory.

“Can I still learn? I think I can, I’m only 23. I’ve got bigger challenges ahead of me and hopefully, definitely, a world title shot in not too long at all.”

Joyce, who was losing on the judges scorecards at the time of their heavyweight contest in November, has moved on to WBO contention since the victory while Dubois has had to rebuild.

The London-native expressed his belief that he’s still not too far behind the best in the business despite the loss.

“I need to be matched right and getting myself in good positions to fight for good titles and things like that.

“In the Joe Joyce fight, I don’t see it like I was on the verge of being knocked out or taking a brutal beating – I wasn’t. It’s little things he picked up on with my style that he took advantage of.

“He’s an experienced Olympic representative that’s fought all over the world, a very experienced fighter so, I’m not too far behind the big boys,” Dubois said.

Martin Bowers had been Dubois’ longtime trainer at the Peacock Gym and while Bowers remains a part of the team, the boxer has sought a different training ahead of his return.

“It’s been difficult in a way. Some decisions had to be made and my career has had to take a step back really. I’ve felt the need to reflect on a few things and what I was doing in order for me to move forward again. I’m ready to move on now.”

Dubois had linked up with Billy Joe Saunders’ trainer, Mark Tibbs, but eventually reverted to his original idea of partnering up with Shane McGuigan.

“We only did one session with Mark Tibbs actually,” Dubois explained.

“After he came back from America from his fight with Billy Joe Saunders and after that session – I thought it was going great! I thought, ‘yeah we might be able to make this thing work’ – but afterwards he sent us a text saying he had other commitments and unfortunately he couldn’t train me.

“After that, we had to make a quick U-turn and get back to Shane [McGuigan] and you know what, before all this Shane was working with my sister Caroline just before her Olympic journey and I saw some big improvements in her style and her boxing and I thought ‘yeah, I want to try this guy.’

“But, we went to Mark Tibbs first so here we are, back again at the beginning.”

Dubois has been touted as the next great British heavyweight by many in the industry and with Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury hopefully fighting for all the marbles by the year’s end, Dubois wants to get himself back in the picture.

And the journey begins with Dinu.

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Heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois insists dark days of Joe Joyce defeat are behind him

After teaming up with Shane McGuigan, the heavy-hitting youngster is ready to start rebuilding his career by putting on a show against Bogdan Dinu

Daniel Dubois plumbed depths he didn’t expect to at this stage of his career following his defeat by Joe Joyce in November.

And there were times, the 23-year-old admits, when he wasn’t sure what the future might hold.

But after plenty of soul searching and two changes of trainer, after leaving Martin Bowers and then Mark Tibbs, he returns to the ring next week.

And with Shane McGuigan now in his corner, he hopes to deliver the sort of devastating knockout display against Romanian Bogdan Dinu that he regularly produced prior to his clash with Joyce and not so long ago had him being widely tipped to one day become a heavyweight champion of the world.

“I was at times in a dark place,” said Dubois. “They say it’s testing for your soul and it took me a while.

“After a defeat like that, you have to take time out and reflect on different things and some decisions have to be made — how you’re going to move forward, you can’t go back to how it was before — and that’s what I had to do.

“Now I’m with Shane he has just helped me get over it, really.

“He was actually training my sister, Caroline, for her Olympic journey and I saw some improvements he’d made in her and thought, ‘Yes, I want to work with this guy’.

“He’s just trying to improve me and make sure I improve on what I’ve got and make sure I use what I have correctly.

“He’s telling me it’s vital that I use my attributes — my strength, my speed — and all of those things that maybe I’ve not been picking up on or thinking that I have in me.

“He’s just bringing me back to life, really.”

McGuigan trained former world heavyweight champion David Haye in the latter stages of his career, and among others, has recently crowned WBO world cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie and two-time world lightweight challenger Luke Campbell in his stable.

“It’s great being in that sort of company and around that level of fighters — world champions, world title fighters, they are all competitive contenders,” added Dubois.

“There’s not many of them but they are quality, and I can’t tell you how good it feels being in that environment.

“I just want to become better.

“The defeat is definitely out of my system.

“It’s about just putting it down to experience and coming back stronger now that it has happened to me.

“It was against an experienced fighter, an Olympian, a silver medallist, so nothing bad I take from that, other than the loss.

“It wasn’t like I was going to get knocked out or on the end of a brutal beating.

“He picked me up on a few things and he won on a few little advantages, so they are the improvements I have to make.

"Now it’s all about getting ranked again and breaking a couple of hearts along the way.

“That’s all I want, to prove myself again and climb the ladder, and who knows what can happen next.”

Back Stronger: Dubois versus Dinu — Saturday, June 5, live on BT Sport 1 HD.

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Dubois was starting to look the real deal until he met Joyce, personally i think he's damaged goods after the eye injury, rarely is a fighter the same after a bad injury like that.
Will he ever be a world champion?
Seriously doubt it.

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the Joyce fight was really bad match making for daniel, it was clear he was no where near ready and could have taken a beating a lot worse

i won good money on that fight