‘I’m going to shock the world’: Daniel Dubois ready for Oleksandr Usyk

Despite recent setbacks and visits to the canvas, Daniel Dubois is confident of his probabilities of pulling off an upset to victory the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles from Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday (5 p.m. ET on ESPN+).

Dubois (19-1, 18 KOs), from Greenwich in south London, has got this far despite looking vulnerable in recent fights and suffering a serious knee injury in his last fight.

Usyk (20-0-0, 13 KOs), 36, from Ukraine, is widely expected to retain his belts at the Stadion Wroclaw in Wroclaw, Poland, but what is it that is fuellng Dubois’ confidence? And how has the English challenger got this opportunity?

“I’m going to shock the world and show people how good Daniel Dubois really is,” Dubois said. Despite being knocked out in 10 rounds by Joe Joyce in November 2020 and being floored three times by Kevin Lerena in his last fight in December, ‘Dynamite’ Dubois fights for a world title this weekend in part because of his concussive punching power.

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The 25-year-old quickly recovered from his first professional defeat versus Joyce, registering four stoppage wins including a third round triumph over Lerena in a first defense of the WBA ‘regular’ title, a less prestigious version of the governing body’s world title which is held by Usyk, in December.

Usyk enjoys fighting British boxers.

He beat Anthony Joshua for a second time on points a year ago, and in 2020 earned a points decision win over Derek Chisora in his second fight at heavyweight after he ruled as undisputed world cruiserweight champion. One of defenses as world cruiserweight champion was an eight round stoppage win over Tony Bellew in November 2018.

Usyk will be looking to make Dubois victory No. 5 over British boxers in world title fights in front of thousands of Ukrainians in Poland.

This will be Dubois’ first fight with trainer Don Charles, who was in the corner with Chisora when he took Usyk’s fellow Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko to points for the WBC belt in 2012.

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