Daniel Dubois led a battle of boxing heroic in Manchester. He gained the title of world heavyweight champion of the WBO by snatching the belt from his British compatriot Fabio Wardley by stoppage of the referee.
The 28-year-old boxer thus regains a belt after shedding the title IBF towards the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk in July 2025.
Wardley’s face coated in blood
The battle, nonetheless, began badly for Dubois, who tasted the canvas from the primary seconds, then dropped to at least one knee within the third spherical after a heavy proper blow from Wardley.
However the Londoner then gained the higher hand and multiplied the devastating sequences towards his 31-year-old opponent, whose face was coated in blood within the sixth spherical. By the ninth, Wardley, swollen past recognition, barely noticed in his proper eye.
Referee Howard Foster lastly stopped the battle within the eleventh spherical.
