Promoter Frank Warren will be looking to keep heavyweight Daniel Dubois very busy in 2023 - and he hopes to position him for a major fight.

In 2022, Dubois traveled to Florida to capture the WBA's "regular" heavyweight title with a knockout of Trevor Bryan. Last month, he followed up that win with a come-from-behind stoppage of Kevin Lerena.

Dubois suffered a leg injury during the win, and there is no clear timeline on when he'll be physically ready to fight.

“He [Dubois] is in a position now where he is going to be in big fights. I mean we were trying to do the Dillian Whyte fight last year but because of the moving around, sodding around with the AJ fight, that got moved and I wished it hadn’t of got moved, I wish we could have done that fight. Who knows we may be able to do it [in 2023],” Warren told Seconds Out.

“I want to keep him busy, I want to keep Joe Joyce busy because they are all quality fighters. At the end of the day they will probably end up wanting to fight each other anyway.” One fight that is on every boxing fans’ lips is a potential meet between two heavyweight champions in Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

Dubois, as the WBA's secondary champion, is the mandatory challenger to the sanctioning organization's full champion Oleksandr Usyk.

Usyk is being lined up to face Warren's star fighter, WBC champion Tyson Fury, in a full division unification clash targeted for March.

“We have got to move very quickly because we are looking to get this on in early March. So we need to move quickly - all of us. We are all on the same page as far as that is concerned, getting it done quickly so we can then announce it and get it on sale," Warren said.