Says Adam Booth, Daniel Dubois could have had the “wake up call” he needed to beat Anthony Joshua

Adam Booth: “You’d have to be a fool not to realise that you need to take Anthony Joshua’s right hand away from him”; Joshua and Dubois will meet in a clash for the IBF heavyweight world title at Wembley Stadium, live on Sky Sports Box Office on September 21

Daniel Dubois could have had the “wake up call” he needed to beat Anthony Joshua, suggests top trainer and boxing expert Adam Booth.

Dubois will fight Joshua for the IBF world heavyweight championship at Wembley stadium on September 21, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

Now upgraded to world champion, after Usyk had to vacate the title, Dubois was the IBF’s Interim belt-holder after his June victory over Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic.

“The fact that Hrgovic found the right hand so many times could be the wake up call for Daniel that he needed to make that adjustment. You’d have to be a fool not to realise that you need to take Anthony Joshua’s right hand away from him,” Booth told Sky Sports.

There is a factor that both Joshua and Dubois do share, as well as their respective punch power. Both boxers are settling in with new trainers, Joshua with Ben Davison and Dubois with Don Charles.

A hard time, “He will give up” – Sparring partner who KO’d Daniel Dubois and gave Anthony Joshua a ‘hard time’ only sees one winner in all-British clash

Martin Bakole has no doubt as to who he thinks will get their hand raised between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois.

The heavyweight titans are set to square off on September 21 at Wembley Stadium for the IBF heavyweight title.

Dubois was recently upgraded from ‘interim’ to full world champion after Oleksandr Usyk vacated the belt to fulfil his rematch clause with Tyson Fury.

AJ opens up as a 1/5 favourite to beat Dubois with talkSPORT Bet.

And Bakole – who has sparred both men – is in agreement with the oddsmakers.

“Joshua is too good for Dubois and more experienced. He has a technique and a big heart,” he told talkSPORT.com.

“Daniel doesn’t have a big heart so as soon as he starts landing the big beautiful punches, he will give up.

“He doesn’t have a big heart. I think Joshua for the experience but anything can happen.

“Daniel Dubois can land beautiful punches he surprised everyone against Hrgovic but I don’t Joshua will give up and he will try his best.

“So for experience, for boxing style, for his brain, I think he is a little bit higher than Dubois.”

The Congolese heavyweight claims to have stopped Dubois twice in sparring and given Joshua a ‘hard time’ when they shared the ring together.

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“They are not mate” Dubois can’t handle Joshua power – Eddie Hearn says

Anthony Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, believes that Daniel Dubois won’t be able to compete with the former champion’s punching prowess when their pair step in the ring against each other.

The two will go head-to-head at Wembley in September as Dubois defends his IBF heavyweight title against Joshua.

It’s already a highly-charged encounter, with the pair having to be separated during the press conference to announce the fight, but Hearn says that although Dubois is a big hitter, Joshua will outgun the champion.

“Both are going to be letting their hands go,” he told BoxingScene.

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“Both are very dangerous. Some people call it a ‘shootout’. But I think AJ’s top sniper. He’s too accurate; he’s too good; and I think if you’re going to get hit against Anthony Joshua you’re going to have serious problems, and AJ’s not gonna stand in front of him like Filip Hrgovic and just ship shots.

“It’s two very dangerous heavyweight punchers, who are in the form and confidence of their career. For Dubois, the Miller and the Hrgovic fight have taken him to the most dangerous point of his career so far. It’s not a good time to fight Dubois, and it’s definitely not a good time to fight AJ. The key points for me are two massive punchers in their absolute primes.”

But his promoters insist he has Anthony Joshua’s team are FURIOUS with Daniel Dubois ‘over his failure to sign up for VADA drug testing’ ahead of September showdown.

Anthony Joshua ‘s team are furious with Daniel Dubois after claiming he failed to sign up for additional drug testing.

The former sparring partners will go head to head for the IBF heavyweight title in September at Wembley Stadium.

However, Joshua’s team has claimed Dubois is yet to sign up for additional testing with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA).

The former two-time unified heavyweight champion’s team wrote in a tweet on Tuesday: ‘Evening @Queensberry… any update on why @DynamiteDubois isn’t signed up for @Vada_Testing yet??”

However, Queensberry Promotions responded to 258 Management saying: ‘Daniel is enrolled as VADA will confirm.’

This comes after Joshua and Dubois almost came to blows as they sat down for a joint interview ahead of their September 21 title fight.

Tensions rose when Dubois told Joshua that he was more than ready to ‘go now’ if he ‘wants to swing’.

‘Shut up, relax,’ Joshua responded. ‘I’ll throw this f***ing chair across your face. Don’t disrespect me.’

Dubois attempted to remain calm, saying: ‘You can’t intimidate me, who do you think you are?’

That comment got Joshua out of his seat with the pair having to be separated by security as Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn watched on.

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‘Daniel don’t disrespect me or I’ll put this f***ing chair through your face,’ Joshua continued.

‘Warn this little boy not to disrespect me. I don’t take disrespect lightly you know. Don’t sit on the table telling me we can go now, telling me this and that.

Promoter Frank Warren said: ‘This was serious. We don’t need any stunts to sell this fight.’

“I’ll Never Forget It” Anthony Joshua Makes Shock Pick For Hardest Punch He’s Been Hit With.

Anthony Joshua was only accustomed to dishing out punishment rather than taking it for the first half of his pro campaign.

In his fifteenth fight against Dillian Whyte for the British title he was rocked but managed to turn the tide and stop his rival. Three fights later would be a war with Wladimir Klitschko where he suffered his first knockdown – a fight Joshua has admitted made him adopt a more cautious approach.

A stoppage loss to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019 was the next time ‘AJ’ was seriously hurt, and he took some sustained and accurate work against Oleksandr Usyk in their double-header.

Regardless, it was in the amateurs when he was hit the hardest. In a feature with Men’s Health, Joshua looked back to the World Championships in 2011 when asked about the most pain he has felt in the ring.

“I remember a tough fight in 2011, the final of the World Championships against a fighter from Azerbaijan. He had knocked out everyone to get to the final, we had a real f**king tear-up, he was so strong.

I was inexperienced, making silly mistakes, and I walked on to one of his punches. Force meeting the force. Boom! I’ll never forget that punch. I lost by one point. So there was emotional pain and physical pain.”

The man Joshua refers to is Magomedrasul Majidov. After winning the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships by beating the Brit, he would take a Bronze Medal at the 2012 Olympics in London where ‘AJ’ won Gold.

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Majidov scored Gold at the Amateur Worlds again in 2013 and 2017. He turned over to the pro ranks under Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn in 2019, winning his first three bouts by stoppage before being knocked out himself in the first round by Russian Andrey Fedosov in 2021. He hasn’t fought since.

Joshua returns to the ring on September 21 to face big-punching Daniel Dubois who has recently been elevated to world champion.