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Daniel Dubois suffered two fractures to his left eye socket when losing his triple heavyweight title fights to Joe Joyce last Saturday. Dubois took a knee in the tenth round of the fight for the British, Commonwealth and European titles after taking a left jab directly on the eye, which was swollen shut.
THE WAITING WAS finally over at around 10.30pm on Saturday night when the two top heavyweight contenders made their way to the ring on the bank of the Thames in Westminster. Church House was a fitting venue because, for all its grandeur, the place is steeped in war history and our two heavyweight soldiers duly went into battle.
Frank Warren has laid into rival Eddie Hearn for throwing doubt on Daniel Dubois’s eye injury in an interview and suggesting that people expect too much of boxers. Dubois took a knee in the tenth-round of his British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight title fight with Joe Joyce on Saturday, leading to some accusing him of quitting.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has come out in defense of Daniel Dubois, who last Saturday suffered his first career defeat. The 23-year-old Dubois was stopped in ten rounds by Olympic silver medal winner Joe Joyce. Dubois' left eye was badly swollen by the tenth - a direct result of Joyce's stiff jabs.
Heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois will be out for five months as he recovers from an eye injury suffered on Saturday night. Dubois' left eye sustained damage during his stoppage loss to Olympic silver medal winner Joe Joyce in their high-stakes contest.
Ricardo Mohammed-Ali, the surgeon who fixed Kell Brook's fractured orbital bones, backs Daniel Dubois' decision to end his fight with Joe Joyce in the tenth round on Saturday night in London. Dubois, who was up on the official cards at the time of the stoppage, was dealing with a badly swollen left eye.
Former two division champion David Haye believes experience was the key to last Saturday's outcome between Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce. The unbeaten heavyweights collided in a high stakes showdown, which saw Dubois - who was up on the cards - remove himself from the fight in the tenth round.
Joe Joyce knows why Daniel Dubois did what he did during the 10th round Saturday night. Nevertheless, even one of humblest men in boxing didn’t sugarcoat how Dubois dealt with a seriously damaged left eye that was swollen shut when he took a knee versus Joyce. The undefeated Joyce feels Dubois “quit” in the 10th round of their scheduled 12-round heavyweight fight at Church House in London.
Joe Joyce has warned Oleksandr Usyk that he will be facing a much better fighter than he beat seven years ago if they have a rematch for the vacant WBO heavyweight title next year.
Boxing is a sport of character. At its most fundamental, it’s fight or flight. Through history, we measure a man’s will. We call him a warrior if he gives us his all and a coward or a quitter if we get anything less when the going gets tough.