After the token shove, the attempted slight.
Having welcomed Oleksandr Usyk to the venue for their July 19 rematch by pushing him a couple of feet across the Wembley turf, Daniel Dubois called the only undisputed world heavyweight champion of the four belt era ‘boring.’
If that put the young Englishman aspiring to that throne into a mental comfort zone, all well and good.
Dubois indicated as much at the media launch for their reunion at which his IBF title will be on the line along with Usyk’s WBC, WBA and WBO belts.
He said of the Ukrainian war hero: ‘He likes to impose mind control. I have to be ready for psychological warfare.’
The loser of their first world title fight, amid low-blow controversy in Poland two years ago, says now; ‘I need to be right spiritually this time.’
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Daniel Dubois (right) branded Oleksandr Usyk ‘boring’ at the media launch for their undisputed heavyweight fight
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The two will do battle at Wembley Stadium in July three years on from their first controversial bout
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Dubois pushed Usyk on the Wembley turf as he stated he ‘truly believes’ he will become undisputed champion
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Usyk mocked Dubois with images of the low blow and other pictures surrounding the incident
Buoyed in belief by his five-drop knock out of Anthony Joshua in this stadium, he said of his ninth round stoppage in Poland by Usyk: ‘I’m not only more matured now but that fight has also strengthened me in my mind.
‘I truly believe I’m going to become the first Englishman to win all these four belts, in the first undisputed heavyweight fight to be held in this country. That I’m going to knock him out.’
Dubois showed maturity by refraining from joining some of his team in calling Oleksandr The Great, who mocked his opponent with taunts about the previous low blow, a cheat after the referee gave him extra time to recover from a marginally low blow in the fifth round.
As for calling the genius who has already been undisputed at cruiserweight and already once at heavyweight boring, it was probably just as well our Daniel was not present at the side bar chat with Usyk which followed.
The present master of the boxing universe chuckled as he talked of being a 14-year old shepherd in what is now a battlefield in Ukraine where he ‘found God who changed my life by giving me the gift of boxing.’
Also that he believes ‘everything that happens in my life was written before I was born.’
Like he expects to collect the Bentley which Dubois’ promoter Frank Warren has sworn to give him if he wins here in July.
And how anyone who thinks he’s approaching retirement should see how he ‘misses training so much when I’m at home for a couple of weeks that I ask my wife to try to punch me.’
If only every sporting giant was this boring.
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