WBA regular heavyweight title holder Daniel Dubois back in England after his successful Stateside mission to defeat Trevor Bryan. Dubois now has a couple of big domestic targets firmly in his sights. The 24-year old, along with his promoter Frank Warren, called into the Talksport studios before a meeting where future plans were due to be discussed. Dubois said he considered himself a heavy favourite against Bryan before a blow was even landed and that he views his triumph as a gateway towards some huge collisions, not least the winner of the forthcoming Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua rematch.

 

Dubois said, “I heard a lot of people say it and even though I thought it was a foregone conclusion I would win the fight, that fight was very big,” considered the winner of 11 championship belts as a professional. “It has set up a whole load of other matches down the line that are going to happen. This is what we are in this sport for, along with my dad and everyone who has been behind me from the beginning, this is what I’ve been pushing for. Now it is ahead of me, these big challenges are going to come,” he added, before being questioned on whether a fight with Usyk or Joshua appeals. Oh yeah, I am ready for the winner, line them up! I am waiting for this moment, I would prefer it to be Joshua, but whoever it is, it is the big league. I want to get a few more fights under my belt, with that belt, and defend it to really make my mark and leave a legacy as a champion.”

 

Frank Warren then threw the name of Dillian Whyte into the mix for a potential defense of his new belt and it was a suggestion that found favor with his young heavyweight. “That’s the fight. This is all business, there is no disrespect to anyone but I am coming to clean up and take out whoever is in my way.”

 

Full Daniel Dubois quotes from the interview with Jim White and Simon Jordan on Talksport:

 

“Well I said ‘by any means necessary’ before the fight and we did that. We took the belt home on the plane and my dad and my sister made a lot of noise out there, along with the team, and it was powerful and I loved every moment of it.

 

“The left hook came out of nowhere that one, I didn’t even know it and he never saw it, for sure!

 

“I heard a lot of people say it and even though I thought it was a foregone conclusion I would win the fight, that fight was very big. It has set up a whole load of other matches down the line that are going to happen.

 

“This is what we are in this sport for, along with my dad and everyone who has been behind me from the beginning, this is what I’ve been pushing for. Now it is ahead of me, these big challenges are going to come.

 

“Oh yeah, I am ready for the winner, line them up! I am waiting for this moment, I would prefer it to be Joshua, but whoever it is, it is the big league.

 

“I want to get a few more fights under my belt, with that belt, and defend it to really make my mark and leave a legacy as a champion.

 

“That’s the fight. This is all business, there is no disrespect to anyone but I am coming to clean up and take out whoever is in my way.”