DANIEL DUBOIS is set to headline another UK showdown on April 18 that will be beamed across the pond to the massive US market.
Promoter Frank Warren, who also makes matches for fellow Brit Joe Joyce, has met with the Juggernaut’s management team in an effort to arrange an all-UK battle.
Joe Joyce could face Brit rival Daniel Dubois in the future
The 22-year-old British and Commonwealth heavyweight king has to kill around 18 months while Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder settle their differences with a rematch and possible trilogy.
And the Greenwich ace knows Anthony Joshua has two mandatory defences coming up to keep hold of his IBF and WBO belts.
In that time, the Peacock Gym prodigy aims to climb further up the rankings, across all four sanctioning bodies, to guarantee himself an unavoidable mandatory shot at one of the belt holders as soon as possible.
Joyce, 34, was booked to fight for Marco Huck for the European title on January 11 but the Germany bout was axed after Huck broke his hand.
The Putney man, a 2016 Olympic silver medal winner, is on a fast track to a world title shot and would have little to gain from fighting the red-hot prospect.
But public demand for a showdown between the pair is growing dramatically after Dynamite Dubois wiped out five 2019 opponents in sensational style.
Joyce is 10-0 as a professional and awaiting a long-overdue crack at the WBA regular title, while Dubois is already 14-0.
And, when Joyce joined DDD in Warren’s Queensbury stable, he distanced himself from the potential all-London clash.
He said: “Dubois has much more to gain from our fight than me, if he knocks me out he is suddenly in line for the WBA regular but if I beat him then I have only beaten a kid. It’s more of a risk for me.
“I am comfortable hitting him in his head, he is quite predictable.
“I think I am a lot more mobile, with better movement and a better boxing brain than him and I am mentally stronger. His only hope is a lucky shot.”
But after Dubois demolished Kyotaro Fujimoto on December 21, with Joyce ringside, Warren revealed he was pulling out all the stops to put his two sluggers against each other.
The veteran boxing boss said: “We’ll do a big show at the O2 in April and I’m hoping it’s going to be a big fight for Daniel.
“We made an offer to Derek Chisora and he’d have no problem fighting Dillian Whyte or Joe Joyce.”
Joyce and Dubois sparred dozens of rounds at the Team GB base in Sheffield around 2015 and the youngster hopes any inexperience he showed back then lures the Adam Booth-trained banger into a false sense of security.
He said: “Joe was in the Team GB camp when I went up there, he was just about to go to the Olympics and I was a young kid trying to find my feet and see what’s what.
“I was 17-18 years old but I was holding my own and giving him more than enough trouble.
“Hopefully Joe underestimates me based on those sparring sessions too and I can bang him up too.”
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Set to feature on the April bill is Dubois Peacock stablemate Anthony Yarde.
The light-heavyweight was beaten in August challenging for the WBO belt against Sergey Kovalev in Russia.
Mexican superstar Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez went on to beat Kovalev for the 175lbs starp, but has since vacated it, opening up the chance for Yarde to work his way back into title contention.
Set to feature on the April bill is Dubois Peacock stablemate Anthony YardeCredit: Reuters
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
