DANIEL DUBOIS wasn’t in the mood for celebrating his birthday, so much so that he lamped a tasty cake with Anthony Joshua’s face on it.
The IBF heavyweight champion celebrated his 27th birthday on Friday with a hard training session under the watchful eye of coach Don Charles.
Charles and the rest of Dubois’ team later broke out into Stevie Wonder’s ‘Happy Birthday’ and presented a cake with the face of upcoming opponent AJ to ‘Triple D’.But Dubois wasn’t in the mood for a singsong, shouting “Stop the music” before punching the tasty-looking cake with his right hand.The softly-spoken but heavy-handed Dubois then roared “This is business.”Charles couldn’t quite believe it, jokingly saying: “Be nice, it’s your birthday.”Footage of Dubiois’ destruction of his birthday cake spread like wildfire on social media.
One boxing fan said of the clip on X: “I’ll give it to Dubois, he’s turned his persona around and now has quite the personality.
Another said: “That’s the closest he’s gonna get, lol.”
And another said: “Dubois has a promising acting career when he retires.”
One remarked: “Might be only 1 he lands b4 being tucked up in his cot by AJ.”
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“You’d think after the [Joe] Joyce / [Oleksandr] Usyk losses he’d be a bit more humble & respect the game more, but trying to force a deep rivalry with AJ isn’t the one.”
Dubois will make the maiden defence of his IBF heavyweight title against Joshua at Wembley on September 21.
A whopping 96,000 fans will pack out the home of English football for the huge domestic dust-up
He said: “AJ’s been the king for a long time and on the night, I need to become a king slayer.
“Ad that’s my goal, that’s the mission at hand.
“I’m learning more about myself as a fighter, as a person, coming out of the darkness and into the light, improving all around as a fighter and as an athlete.
“I’m up for this and ready to go.”
