{"id":42113,"date":"2026-05-08T04:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wardley-vs-dubois-challenger-responds-to-bin-man-jibe-before-saturdays-heavyweight-title-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:48:19","slug":"wardley-vs-dubois-challenger-responds-to-bin-man-jibe-before-saturdays-heavyweight-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wardley-vs-dubois-challenger-responds-to-bin-man-jibe-before-saturdays-heavyweight-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Wardley vs Dubois: Challenger responds to &#8216;bin-man&#8217; jibe before Saturday&#8217;s heavyweight title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am very focused, very dialled in,&#8221; added Dubois as the attention soon turned to the Londoner walking out of two interviews earlier this week after feeling he was being mocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has previously been criticised for his mentality following defeats by Joe Joyce and Usyk, facing accusations of folding too easily under pressure, but Wardley acknowledged the challenger has also shown resilience during his recent resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He can be very strong mentally and in other fights,&#8221; said Wardley. &#8220;He has proven to be mentally strong and durable, but in other fights you&#8217;ve seen that lacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whether that&#8217;s down to training or the team around him, it&#8217;s not clear. It depends on what Daniel turns up on the night. It can be a flip of the coin sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubois replied: &#8220;No comment. I&#8217;m here to get the job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tension spilled beyond the fighters as Wardley&#8217;s manager Mike Ofo and Dubois&#8217; manager Sam Jones argued on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wardley smirked as Dubois watched in silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked for a final message to his opponent, Dubois said: &#8220;I win by any means necessary. That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m here for business. Let&#8217;s fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wardley was a little more forthcoming with his prediction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is getting knocked out,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done that to 95% of my opponents. I&#8217;m going to clear him out. I will land clean, land sharp and get him out of there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c302m1m2z3qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am very focused, very dialled in,&#8221; added Dubois as the attention soon turned to the Londoner walking out of two interviews earlier this week after feeling he was being mocked. He has previously been criticised for his mentality following defeats by Joe Joyce and Usyk, facing accusations of folding too easily under pressure, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42115,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42113\/revisions\/42115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}