Daniel Dubois reveals the ILLEGAL MOVE he's willing to use against Anthony Joshua to retain IBF heavyweight title
09/19/2024 02:00 AM
DANIEL DUBOIS is willing to get down and dirty to do a demolition job on Anthony Joshua this weekend.
‘Triple D’ makes his maiden defence of the IBF heavyweight title against the Watford warrior at Wembley on Saturday night.
The Greenwich gladiator is a huge underdog going into his domestic dust-up with the golden boy of British boxing, despite being the defending champion.
Dubois, 27, knows former two-time unified champ AJ will be the biggest test of his career and is willing to do whatever it takes to beat his former sparring partner – including sticking his nut on him.
He said: “I’ll do whatever it takes to win. Do you know what I mean?
“If it means rushing in, [a] dog fight, headbutts. Everything, you know? Anything to win and retain my belt.”
Dubois and AJ almost came to blows during a heated sit-down face-off in June, with security stopping them from prematurely trading punches.
Dubois didn’t cower to AJ’s threat of hitting him with a chair and doesn’t plan on doing so in the ring.
When asked if he plans to hold the centre of the squared circle, he told Matchroom Boxing: “You guys are gonna see, don’t worry about that.”
A whopping 96,000 fans will cram into Wembley to watch Dubois and Joshua duke it out for the prestigious red IBF strap.
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And the magnitude of the moment isn’t lost on Dubious, who said: “This is big. This is big, man.
“It ain’t the biggest, but this is big and I’m just really soaking it all up right now.
“It’s a great atmosphere and I just want to feed off the energy on Saturday.”
Dubois got his hands on the IBF strap as a result of Oleksandr Usyk vacating the belt a month after his undisputed Saudi showdown with Tyson Fury in May.
He won the interim title in early June with an eighth-round stoppage of Filip Hrgovic but was elevated to full champion status following Usyk’s vacation of the belt.
But he doesn’t feel like a paper champion going into the biggest fight of his career.
“I’m the champ,” he roared. “I don’t agree with that one. I’m the champ, for now. I’m the champ.
“It will feel even better on Saturday when I win.
“I’m just in the zone right now. It’s what I’ve wanted since I was a little kid.”
