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It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>? A monster in the ring. A man who has fought with the Ukrainian army and doesn\u2019t know when to quit. A man who swims lengths for five hours straight. A man who throws hammers in training. A man who has never been dropped \u2013 let alone stopped \u2013 in his career. Both Derek Chisora<\/a> and Anthony Joshua<\/a> have tried and failed to outclass him.<\/p>\nOn August 26, Daniel Dubois<\/a> will look to go one better and his trainer, the legendary Don Charles, believes he has the secret sauce to defeat the feared pound-for-pound sensation. He feels Usyk will crumble when he gets a taste of the British heavyweight\u2019s power.<\/p>\nCharles was in a bullish mood as he sat with Mail Sport in his office, next to his Pug Yard gym in Finchley.<\/p>\n‘I’m going to be arrogant, he said. ‘If Daniel Dubois is hitting him the way we envisage, Usyk will not survive it. Trust me on this, I\u2019ve trained Anthony Joshua \u2013 it\u2019s not publicly known. I worked with AJ before the Olympics and he hits hard. Joshua is a phenomenal puncher, but Dubois\u2019 power is unmeasurable. [The game plan] is no secret. [Dubois] needs to jump on Usyk\u2019s a**e.<\/p>\n‘If the Daniel Dubois that I\u2019ve trained for the last 16 weeks in successful in the first five or six rounds, Usyk will not be in a good state because Dubois hits differently.’<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nDaniel Dubois has acquired the services of Don Charles (right) for his upcoming bout with Oleksandr Usyk\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk and Dubois square off on August 26 for the Ukrainian’s WBA (super), WBO and IBF heavyweight titles<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut is power enough? We saw Usyk get into trouble against Joshua in their Saudi Arabia fight last year during the ninth round, but AJ couldn\u2019t capitalise and the Ukrainian recovered and ended up bossing the remaining rounds. Charles and his team have studied Usyk\u2019s last few fights and have taken plenty from them.<\/p>\nCharles was a long-time coach of Chisora’s and worked with him during his fight against Usyk in 2020. While Del Boy lost unanimously, he gave Usyk issues with his aggression. The number one takeaway is that the former cruiserweight king must be pressured constantly. Charles is a big football fan and likens Usyk to a skilled footballer. For this fight, Dubois must be like Sergio Ramos going up against a prime Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n\u2018Quite simply, you have to pressure Usyk \u2013 similarly to how Dereck did,\u2019 he continues. \u2018You don\u2019t box Usyk, you have to dog it out with him. Once you get into that zone, you have to commit. In football, when you get a skilful footballer, you don\u2019t give him space. You chop him down. You mark him, you barge him, you foul him. Make him uncomfortable. Usyk is a skilful player. You can\u2019t give him room to do his thing. Take him out of that zone and break him down.<\/p>\n\u2018Joshua was very apprehensive. He had the chance and didn\u2019t close the show. He didn\u2019t want to gas and didn\u2019t trust his defence. Daniel Dubois gets him in that position \u2013 he would be doomed. I\u2019ve seen what he does. His knockout rate suggests that. When he smells blood, he goes in for it.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019ve got to track Usyk. Don\u2019t let him escape. Make the ring smaller, don\u2019t follow him around. If he goes one way, cut him off. Keep him in one half of the ring and trap him. Daniel has the energy to punch and punch and punch. I believe we\u2019ve got the perfect game plan to halt this guy because the minute Daniel corners him, the fight is over.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois\u2019 team have huge confidence in their man, to such an extent that they don\u2019t just think he will defeat Usyk \u2013 they fully believe it and talk about when, not if he becomes the proud owner of three world title belts in Poland on Saturday night. It’s a rare thing for a trainer to talk up his fighter’s chances so much, not least against a fighter who has never been beaten in his professional career \u2013 and one who has seldom looked close to being beaten.<\/p>\nUsyk is durable, intelligent and has a huge boxing IQ, but Charles believes he has \u2018mileage\u2019 on his clock and that his age will show when he comes up against the hard-hitting Dubois, who has stopped 18 of his 19 opponents.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019re going to expose that,\u2019 Charles says. \u2018I\u2019ve seen fighters age rapidly if the fight isn\u2019t going their way. I think we\u2019re about to witness that on the 26th. This is a 36-year-old man. We know the positives of Usyk, but let\u2019s look at the negatives for a minute. He\u2019s had over 300 amateur fights. Then he fought in the World Boxing Super Series. Then he unified the cruiserweight division. That\u2019s a lot of mileage on that clock and a lot of injuries that are there. We are going to reactivate those injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nCharles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\nIt hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\nAfter following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\nCharles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? 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On August 26, Daniel Dubois<\/a> will look to go one better and his trainer, the legendary Don Charles, believes he has the secret sauce to defeat the feared pound-for-pound sensation. He feels Usyk will crumble when he gets a taste of the British heavyweight\u2019s power.<\/p>\nCharles was in a bullish mood as he sat with Mail Sport in his office, next to his Pug Yard gym in Finchley.<\/p>\n‘I’m going to be arrogant, he said. ‘If Daniel Dubois is hitting him the way we envisage, Usyk will not survive it. Trust me on this, I\u2019ve trained Anthony Joshua \u2013 it\u2019s not publicly known. I worked with AJ before the Olympics and he hits hard. Joshua is a phenomenal puncher, but Dubois\u2019 power is unmeasurable. [The game plan] is no secret. [Dubois] needs to jump on Usyk\u2019s a**e.<\/p>\n‘If the Daniel Dubois that I\u2019ve trained for the last 16 weeks in successful in the first five or six rounds, Usyk will not be in a good state because Dubois hits differently.’<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nDaniel Dubois has acquired the services of Don Charles (right) for his upcoming bout with Oleksandr Usyk\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk and Dubois square off on August 26 for the Ukrainian’s WBA (super), WBO and IBF heavyweight titles<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut is power enough? We saw Usyk get into trouble against Joshua in their Saudi Arabia fight last year during the ninth round, but AJ couldn\u2019t capitalise and the Ukrainian recovered and ended up bossing the remaining rounds. Charles and his team have studied Usyk\u2019s last few fights and have taken plenty from them.<\/p>\nCharles was a long-time coach of Chisora’s and worked with him during his fight against Usyk in 2020. While Del Boy lost unanimously, he gave Usyk issues with his aggression. The number one takeaway is that the former cruiserweight king must be pressured constantly. Charles is a big football fan and likens Usyk to a skilled footballer. For this fight, Dubois must be like Sergio Ramos going up against a prime Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n\u2018Quite simply, you have to pressure Usyk \u2013 similarly to how Dereck did,\u2019 he continues. \u2018You don\u2019t box Usyk, you have to dog it out with him. Once you get into that zone, you have to commit. In football, when you get a skilful footballer, you don\u2019t give him space. You chop him down. You mark him, you barge him, you foul him. Make him uncomfortable. Usyk is a skilful player. You can\u2019t give him room to do his thing. Take him out of that zone and break him down.<\/p>\n\u2018Joshua was very apprehensive. He had the chance and didn\u2019t close the show. He didn\u2019t want to gas and didn\u2019t trust his defence. Daniel Dubois gets him in that position \u2013 he would be doomed. I\u2019ve seen what he does. His knockout rate suggests that. When he smells blood, he goes in for it.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019ve got to track Usyk. Don\u2019t let him escape. Make the ring smaller, don\u2019t follow him around. If he goes one way, cut him off. Keep him in one half of the ring and trap him. Daniel has the energy to punch and punch and punch. I believe we\u2019ve got the perfect game plan to halt this guy because the minute Daniel corners him, the fight is over.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois\u2019 team have huge confidence in their man, to such an extent that they don\u2019t just think he will defeat Usyk \u2013 they fully believe it and talk about when, not if he becomes the proud owner of three world title belts in Poland on Saturday night. It’s a rare thing for a trainer to talk up his fighter’s chances so much, not least against a fighter who has never been beaten in his professional career \u2013 and one who has seldom looked close to being beaten.<\/p>\nUsyk is durable, intelligent and has a huge boxing IQ, but Charles believes he has \u2018mileage\u2019 on his clock and that his age will show when he comes up against the hard-hitting Dubois, who has stopped 18 of his 19 opponents.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019re going to expose that,\u2019 Charles says. \u2018I\u2019ve seen fighters age rapidly if the fight isn\u2019t going their way. I think we\u2019re about to witness that on the 26th. This is a 36-year-old man. We know the positives of Usyk, but let\u2019s look at the negatives for a minute. He\u2019s had over 300 amateur fights. Then he fought in the World Boxing Super Series. Then he unified the cruiserweight division. That\u2019s a lot of mileage on that clock and a lot of injuries that are there. We are going to reactivate those injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nCharles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\nIt hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\nAfter following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\nCharles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? 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Charles was in a bullish mood as he sat with Mail Sport in his office, next to his Pug Yard gym in Finchley.<\/p>\n
‘I’m going to be arrogant, he said. ‘If Daniel Dubois is hitting him the way we envisage, Usyk will not survive it. Trust me on this, I\u2019ve trained Anthony Joshua \u2013 it\u2019s not publicly known. I worked with AJ before the Olympics and he hits hard. Joshua is a phenomenal puncher, but Dubois\u2019 power is unmeasurable. [The game plan] is no secret. [Dubois] needs to jump on Usyk\u2019s a**e.<\/p>\n
‘If the Daniel Dubois that I\u2019ve trained for the last 16 weeks in successful in the first five or six rounds, Usyk will not be in a good state because Dubois hits differently.’<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/div>\nDaniel Dubois has acquired the services of Don Charles (right) for his upcoming bout with Oleksandr Usyk\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk and Dubois square off on August 26 for the Ukrainian’s WBA (super), WBO and IBF heavyweight titles<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut is power enough? We saw Usyk get into trouble against Joshua in their Saudi Arabia fight last year during the ninth round, but AJ couldn\u2019t capitalise and the Ukrainian recovered and ended up bossing the remaining rounds. Charles and his team have studied Usyk\u2019s last few fights and have taken plenty from them.<\/p>\nCharles was a long-time coach of Chisora’s and worked with him during his fight against Usyk in 2020. While Del Boy lost unanimously, he gave Usyk issues with his aggression. The number one takeaway is that the former cruiserweight king must be pressured constantly. Charles is a big football fan and likens Usyk to a skilled footballer. For this fight, Dubois must be like Sergio Ramos going up against a prime Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n\u2018Quite simply, you have to pressure Usyk \u2013 similarly to how Dereck did,\u2019 he continues. \u2018You don\u2019t box Usyk, you have to dog it out with him. Once you get into that zone, you have to commit. In football, when you get a skilful footballer, you don\u2019t give him space. You chop him down. You mark him, you barge him, you foul him. Make him uncomfortable. Usyk is a skilful player. You can\u2019t give him room to do his thing. Take him out of that zone and break him down.<\/p>\n\u2018Joshua was very apprehensive. He had the chance and didn\u2019t close the show. He didn\u2019t want to gas and didn\u2019t trust his defence. Daniel Dubois gets him in that position \u2013 he would be doomed. I\u2019ve seen what he does. His knockout rate suggests that. When he smells blood, he goes in for it.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019ve got to track Usyk. Don\u2019t let him escape. Make the ring smaller, don\u2019t follow him around. If he goes one way, cut him off. Keep him in one half of the ring and trap him. Daniel has the energy to punch and punch and punch. I believe we\u2019ve got the perfect game plan to halt this guy because the minute Daniel corners him, the fight is over.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois\u2019 team have huge confidence in their man, to such an extent that they don\u2019t just think he will defeat Usyk \u2013 they fully believe it and talk about when, not if he becomes the proud owner of three world title belts in Poland on Saturday night. It’s a rare thing for a trainer to talk up his fighter’s chances so much, not least against a fighter who has never been beaten in his professional career \u2013 and one who has seldom looked close to being beaten.<\/p>\nUsyk is durable, intelligent and has a huge boxing IQ, but Charles believes he has \u2018mileage\u2019 on his clock and that his age will show when he comes up against the hard-hitting Dubois, who has stopped 18 of his 19 opponents.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019re going to expose that,\u2019 Charles says. \u2018I\u2019ve seen fighters age rapidly if the fight isn\u2019t going their way. I think we\u2019re about to witness that on the 26th. This is a 36-year-old man. We know the positives of Usyk, but let\u2019s look at the negatives for a minute. He\u2019s had over 300 amateur fights. Then he fought in the World Boxing Super Series. Then he unified the cruiserweight division. That\u2019s a lot of mileage on that clock and a lot of injuries that are there. We are going to reactivate those injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nCharles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\nIt hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\nAfter following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\nCharles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? A monster in the ring. A man who has fought with the Ukrainian army and doesn\u2019t know when to quit. A man who swims lengths for five hours straight. A man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3418,7471,217,1294,23,3336,10448,9439,10450,10451,2669,10449,2019,194,10453,10452],"acf":{"source_article":"","image_credit":""},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Daniel Dubois has acquired the services of Don Charles (right) for his upcoming bout with Oleksandr Usyk\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk and Dubois square off on August 26 for the Ukrainian’s WBA (super), WBO and IBF heavyweight titles<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut is power enough? We saw Usyk get into trouble against Joshua in their Saudi Arabia fight last year during the ninth round, but AJ couldn\u2019t capitalise and the Ukrainian recovered and ended up bossing the remaining rounds. Charles and his team have studied Usyk\u2019s last few fights and have taken plenty from them.<\/p>\nCharles was a long-time coach of Chisora’s and worked with him during his fight against Usyk in 2020. While Del Boy lost unanimously, he gave Usyk issues with his aggression. The number one takeaway is that the former cruiserweight king must be pressured constantly. Charles is a big football fan and likens Usyk to a skilled footballer. For this fight, Dubois must be like Sergio Ramos going up against a prime Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n\u2018Quite simply, you have to pressure Usyk \u2013 similarly to how Dereck did,\u2019 he continues. \u2018You don\u2019t box Usyk, you have to dog it out with him. Once you get into that zone, you have to commit. In football, when you get a skilful footballer, you don\u2019t give him space. You chop him down. You mark him, you barge him, you foul him. Make him uncomfortable. Usyk is a skilful player. You can\u2019t give him room to do his thing. Take him out of that zone and break him down.<\/p>\n\u2018Joshua was very apprehensive. He had the chance and didn\u2019t close the show. He didn\u2019t want to gas and didn\u2019t trust his defence. Daniel Dubois gets him in that position \u2013 he would be doomed. I\u2019ve seen what he does. His knockout rate suggests that. When he smells blood, he goes in for it.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019ve got to track Usyk. Don\u2019t let him escape. Make the ring smaller, don\u2019t follow him around. If he goes one way, cut him off. Keep him in one half of the ring and trap him. Daniel has the energy to punch and punch and punch. I believe we\u2019ve got the perfect game plan to halt this guy because the minute Daniel corners him, the fight is over.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois\u2019 team have huge confidence in their man, to such an extent that they don\u2019t just think he will defeat Usyk \u2013 they fully believe it and talk about when, not if he becomes the proud owner of three world title belts in Poland on Saturday night. It’s a rare thing for a trainer to talk up his fighter’s chances so much, not least against a fighter who has never been beaten in his professional career \u2013 and one who has seldom looked close to being beaten.<\/p>\nUsyk is durable, intelligent and has a huge boxing IQ, but Charles believes he has \u2018mileage\u2019 on his clock and that his age will show when he comes up against the hard-hitting Dubois, who has stopped 18 of his 19 opponents.<\/p>\n\u2018We\u2019re going to expose that,\u2019 Charles says. \u2018I\u2019ve seen fighters age rapidly if the fight isn\u2019t going their way. I think we\u2019re about to witness that on the 26th. This is a 36-year-old man. We know the positives of Usyk, but let\u2019s look at the negatives for a minute. He\u2019s had over 300 amateur fights. Then he fought in the World Boxing Super Series. Then he unified the cruiserweight division. That\u2019s a lot of mileage on that clock and a lot of injuries that are there. We are going to reactivate those injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nCharles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\nIt hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\nAfter following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\nCharles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? 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Usyk and Dubois square off on August 26 for the Ukrainian’s WBA (super), WBO and IBF heavyweight titles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But is power enough? We saw Usyk get into trouble against Joshua in their Saudi Arabia fight last year during the ninth round, but AJ couldn\u2019t capitalise and the Ukrainian recovered and ended up bossing the remaining rounds. Charles and his team have studied Usyk\u2019s last few fights and have taken plenty from them.<\/p>\n
Charles was a long-time coach of Chisora’s and worked with him during his fight against Usyk in 2020. While Del Boy lost unanimously, he gave Usyk issues with his aggression. The number one takeaway is that the former cruiserweight king must be pressured constantly. Charles is a big football fan and likens Usyk to a skilled footballer. For this fight, Dubois must be like Sergio Ramos going up against a prime Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n
\u2018Quite simply, you have to pressure Usyk \u2013 similarly to how Dereck did,\u2019 he continues. \u2018You don\u2019t box Usyk, you have to dog it out with him. Once you get into that zone, you have to commit. In football, when you get a skilful footballer, you don\u2019t give him space. You chop him down. You mark him, you barge him, you foul him. Make him uncomfortable. Usyk is a skilful player. You can\u2019t give him room to do his thing. Take him out of that zone and break him down.<\/p>\n
\u2018Joshua was very apprehensive. He had the chance and didn\u2019t close the show. He didn\u2019t want to gas and didn\u2019t trust his defence. Daniel Dubois gets him in that position \u2013 he would be doomed. I\u2019ve seen what he does. His knockout rate suggests that. When he smells blood, he goes in for it.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019ve got to track Usyk. Don\u2019t let him escape. Make the ring smaller, don\u2019t follow him around. If he goes one way, cut him off. Keep him in one half of the ring and trap him. Daniel has the energy to punch and punch and punch. I believe we\u2019ve got the perfect game plan to halt this guy because the minute Daniel corners him, the fight is over.\u2019<\/p>\n
Dubois\u2019 team have huge confidence in their man, to such an extent that they don\u2019t just think he will defeat Usyk \u2013 they fully believe it and talk about when, not if he becomes the proud owner of three world title belts in Poland on Saturday night. It’s a rare thing for a trainer to talk up his fighter’s chances so much, not least against a fighter who has never been beaten in his professional career \u2013 and one who has seldom looked close to being beaten.<\/p>\n
Usyk is durable, intelligent and has a huge boxing IQ, but Charles believes he has \u2018mileage\u2019 on his clock and that his age will show when he comes up against the hard-hitting Dubois, who has stopped 18 of his 19 opponents.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re going to expose that,\u2019 Charles says. \u2018I\u2019ve seen fighters age rapidly if the fight isn\u2019t going their way. I think we\u2019re about to witness that on the 26th. This is a 36-year-old man. We know the positives of Usyk, but let\u2019s look at the negatives for a minute. He\u2019s had over 300 amateur fights. Then he fought in the World Boxing Super Series. Then he unified the cruiserweight division. That\u2019s a lot of mileage on that clock and a lot of injuries that are there. We are going to reactivate those injuries.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/div>\nCharles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\nIt hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\nAfter following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\nCharles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? A monster in the ring. A man who has fought with the Ukrainian army and doesn\u2019t know when to quit. A man who swims lengths for five hours straight. 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Charles (left) believes Dubois’ power will be too much for unified heavyweight champion Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018There\u2019s an 11-year age gap between them. There\u2019s a lot of areas we draw confidence in. We\u2019re going to push him. When [Chisora] went to fight Vitali Klitschko in 2012, everyone said he was going to get killed. Dereck took him the distance and Vitali aged in that fight. He fought one more time after that and then he retired. Vasiliy Lomachenko was running rings around people, then he came across Lopez \u2013 who was bigger, stronger, younger and punches harder. We\u2019re about to do that to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n
\u2018I study boxing, I see when these things happen. It\u2019s about to happen. We\u2019re not just saying it. We have trained for it.\u2019<\/p>\n
Dubois has certainly trained hard for this, undoubtably the toughest fight of his life. The 25-year-old has been put through the mill by Charles and his team in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain. He\u2019s been running up hills and hitting pads at altitude, 2,500 feet above sea level, ripping his sparring partners apart. Charles tells me a tale of one fighter who was hit by Dubois during a session and was left screaming in pain. His bicep had been ruptured. After being sent 40 minutes down the mountain to the nearest hospital, a scan had shown that his bicep had in fact been snapped in half.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t been all plain sailing for Dubois. ‘Dynamite’ had emerged as an unstoppable force of nature in the heavyweight division before being handed a painful first defeat at the hands of Joe Joyce three years ago, which saw him take a knee after a horrific eye injury \u2013 and branded a quitter.<\/p>\n
After following that up with three straight wins, his career was nearly in tatters when he fell to the canvas three times in the opening round of his last fight against Kevin Lerena last December, struggling with a knee injury. He overcame that scare to brutally stop Lerena in the third round, despite barely being able to put pressure on the leg.<\/p>\n
Charles explains the struggles Dubois \u2013 who was then working with Shane McGuigan – had with his knee in the build up to that fight and his shock that he was able to pull off the win.<\/p>\n
\u2018It hasn\u2019t been well documented but he was told prior that he needed attention to his knee,\u2019 he goes on. \u2018They didn\u2019t know when it was going to go but it was going to go. They took a gamble and lo and behold it went in the fight. Remarkably, for a guy who was meant to be a quitter got up with one leg. Shane didn\u2019t panic and Dubois still brutally knocked him out.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/div>\nUsyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\nDubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\nThis has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? A monster in the ring. A man who has fought with the Ukrainian army and doesn\u2019t know when to quit. A man who swims lengths for five hours straight. A man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3418,7471,217,1294,23,3336,10448,9439,10450,10451,2669,10449,2019,194,10453,10452],"acf":{"source_article":"","image_credit":""},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Usyk last fought in August 2022 when he defeated Anthony Joshua for a second time\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018They were flying with half an engine and landed the plane successfully. He never should have won the fight because he couldn\u2019t put weight on the leg. Lerena was the first name on my list to come for sparring for Daniel ahead of the Usyk fight. He refused it and I know why.\u2019<\/p>\n
Dubois has had his critics \u2013 especially in the wake of his defeat to Joyce \u2013 but Charles believes people will see a different side to him after his gruelling high-altitude camp. He has seen his young fighter show he is much more than just an aimless power-puncher.<\/p>\n
\u2018He’s ticked every box and more. I took him into a hard, hard environment up in the mountains to take him out of his comfort zone. I\u2019m glad he did that because now he\u2019s going to reap the benefits of all that hard work. I\u2019ve seen a lot, I\u2019ve done a lot. I can suss a fight. We\u2019re fighting a man who is very good, but very beatable.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019m still finding things about this young man. He can have a ruck \u2013 I didn\u2019t know that. He was sparring Moses Itauma, a very highly-rated fighter. They were having it off in sparring and that\u2019s when I saw another side of Daniel that I didn\u2019t know. There is a dog in Daniel Dubois and if he has to dog it, he can. When Moses came, he brought the dog out of Daniel. I thought, \u201cOh my god\u201d. Me and my colleagues all looked at each other \u2013 we didn\u2019t know he had that.\u2019<\/p>\n
This has been a turgid year for the heavyweights. Cancelled fights, failed negotiations. A lack of big match-ups the fans have craved. The usual heroes Joshua, Fury and Whyte have hardly covered themselves in glory. Dubois has a chance to light up the division again if his hand is raised this weekend. He won\u2019t be the favourite with the bookies, but no one in his camp is concerned in the slightest. Belief can only take you so far in boxing \u2013 but as long as the game plan Charles has mapped out for Dubois is executed, he cannot see anything other than history being made.<\/p>\n
\u2018The only chance we\u2019ve been given is that Daniel is a puncher and we\u2019ve got a punchers chance. Do you what? We\u2019ll take that. If it\u2019s documented that Usyk has never been dropped, we\u2019re going to be the first to do it.<\/p>\n
\u2018[Dubois] will go down in history forever and he\u2019s about to do that. We keep reminding him about that. Mohammad Ali shook the world when he beat Sonny Liston. He repeated it again against Forman, who was untouchable at the time. It\u2019s about to happen again. We are up for it man. Usyk said he was hungry for this fight. We are starving.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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It has been one of the biggest debates in boxing over the last two years \u2013 how do you take down Oleksandr Usyk? A monster in the ring. A man who has fought with the Ukrainian army and doesn\u2019t know when to quit. A man who swims lengths for five hours straight. A man who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3418,7471,217,1294,23,3336,10448,9439,10450,10451,2669,10449,2019,194,10453,10452],"acf":{"source_article":"","image_credit":""},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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