DUBOIS: ANY WARM-UP IS A GOOD FIGHT
DANIEL DUBOIS doesn’t care who is standing opposite him on Saturday as long as he gets the tune-up he needs ahead of his October clash with Joe Joyce.
The 23-year-old heavyweight was told last week Ricardo Snijders had been drafted in after original opponent Erik Pfeifer’s team failed to submit an MRI scan on time. Dubois said: “I haven’t seen any footage of Snijders. It has only been the last couple of days I’ve been aware of the new opponent so it’s a shock for me.
“But because I’m coming back I just needed to get the juices flowing again and this is a good fight for that.
“What we have to do is adapt and do what we have always done – be prepared.” Dubois was set to fight Joyce during lockdown but the fight was pushed back and both fighters took a warm-up to shake off any ring rustiness.
Dubois added: “This fight is about building towards the Joe fight. People need to see what I’m about and I need to show them what I’ve learned and what I’m capable of.”
Dubois’ promoter, Frank
Warren, said: “Daniel is the most exciting prospect in all of boxing and he has the world at his feet.
“But in heavyweight boxing, anything can happen.
“With all that’s gone on, the late opponent change, the long lay-off because of Covid, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous.”
Dubois v Snijders — 7pm Saturday, BT Sport 1