{"id":289834,"date":"2023-09-14T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=289834"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:34:17","slug":"warren-urges-anthony-joshua-to-face-daniel-dubois-instead-of-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/boxing\/warren-urges-anthony-joshua-to-face-daniel-dubois-instead-of-wilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren urges Anthony Joshua to face Daniel Dubois instead of Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Frank Warren claims Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder &#8216;will NOT happen&#8217; and urges the Brit to face Daniel Dubois &#8216;to see who has the biggest heart&#8217;&#8230; as he claims the fight &#8216;would sell out anywhere&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder have agreed terms but a fight is in doubt\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Frank Warren believes it won&#8217;t happen and urged Joshua to face Dubois instead\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Queensbury chief says the all-British showdown would &#8216;sell out anywhere&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Joshua should face Daniel Dubois next in a clash that would &#8216;sell out anywhere&#8217;, claims Frank Warren &#8211; who believes the former world champion&#8217;s bout with Deontay Wilder &#8216;won&#8217;t happen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Wilder have already agreed terms on a blockbuster bout, which was expected to take place in Saudi Arabia, but complications with the country&#8217;s boxing management company has plunged it into doubt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AJ&#8217;s promoter Eddie Hearn exclusive revealed to Mail Sport that he was still awaiting the contract for Joshua vs Wilder and that he may have to explore alternate venues and opponents &#8211; with former rival Andy Ruiz and Filip Hrgovic also in the running.<\/p>\n<p>And Warren has claimed the fight will not come to fruition and instead wants Joshua and his team to consider a huge all-British showdown against Dubois following his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was also beaten by Usyk last year and is looking to rebuild himself and get back into world title contenion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/09\/75420587-12517219-image-m-13_1694678922688.jpg\" height=\"559\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/09\/75420605-12517219-image-a-14_1694678930838.jpg\" height=\"559\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Joshua&#8217;s fight against Deontay Wilder &#8216;will not happen&#8217;, claims Frank Warren<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/09\/75420659-12517219-image-a-15_1694678952949.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Queensbury chief has urged Joshua to set up an all-British clash with Daniel Dubois<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Deontay Wilder &amp; Anthony Joshua situation, I know their people had conversations and thought that it would happen, but I never thought it would happen, and it&#8217;s not,&#8217; he told iFL TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The problem is, the amount of money they felt they were going to get paid or they heard they were going to get paid, they&#8217;re not going to achieve that anywhere. That&#8217;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What we&#8217;re hearing from Matchroom is every other week or every two weeks, they were going to announce it. We are now hitting mid-December. It ain&#8217;t going to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you a good fight if that doesn&#8217;t happen. You know what would be a good fight in the UK and people would buy tickets to watch it and we&#8217;ll see who is the biggest puncher and who has got the biggest heart? Him [Joshua] and Daniel Dubois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/09\/75420597-12517219-image-a-16_1694678987541.jpg\" height=\"551\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dubois has just come off a loss to Oleksandr Usyk &#8211; despite dropping him with a contentious shot that was controversially ruled as a low blow<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That would sell out anywhere. Before you start your hate, that would determine who has got the biggest heart, who would grit their teeth. You can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s not going to sell. It would sell. It&#8217;s a big fight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Hearn revealed his frustration with delays to getting Joshua vs Wilder off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Mail Sport, Hearn said: &#8216;We&#8217;ve agreed terms for that fight, we have agreed the money. We have agreed everything. What we haven&#8217;t got is the contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is a change in terms of boxing politics in Saudi Arabia. The people that we have worked with for a number of years, who told us the fight is done, have left so that might not be the case now. But, I guess the strategy will be assed by them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/09\/75334511-12517219-Eddie_Hearn_pictured_above_says_Matchroom_are_still_waiting_on_t-a-17_1694679008028.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Hearn (pictured above) says Matchroom are still waiting on the contract for Joshua &#8216;s Saudi Arabian clash with Wilder<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As I understand it, they still want to do AJ vs Wilder. They also want to do AJ vs Usyk. Do they want to do AJ vs Fury? I have no idea. But, we are in for that fight but at the same time, we aren&#8217;t going to wait forever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We will see what happens over the next couple of weeks. There is a good chance that AJ will fight in December if he doesn&#8217;t fight Wilder in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are now looking at alternative venues for that fight as well just in case as previously we were told the fight was done. It&#8217;s a massive fight whether that&#8217;s in Saudi, whether that&#8217;s in Abu Dhabi or whether that&#8217;s in Vegas or Wembley.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Hearn finished by saying:\u00a0&#8216;It&#8217;s a massive fight. I do expect it to happen. AJ wants to keep active and there is a chance he will fight in December.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12517219\/Frank-Warren-claims-Anthony-Joshua-vs-Deontay-Wilder-NOT-happen-urges-Brit-face-Daniel-Dubois-biggest-heart-claims-fight-sell-anywhere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Warren claims Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder &#8216;will NOT happen&#8217; and urges the Brit to face Daniel Dubois &#8216;to see who has the biggest heart&#8217;&#8230; as he claims the fight &#8216;would sell out anywhere&#8217; Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder have agreed terms but a fight is in doubt\u00a0\u00a0 Frank Warren believes it won&#8217;t happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warren urges Anthony Joshua to face Daniel Dubois instead of Wilder - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/boxing\/warren-urges-anthony-joshua-to-face-daniel-dubois-instead-of-wilder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warren urges Anthony Joshua to face Daniel Dubois instead of Wilder - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Frank Warren claims Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder &#8216;will NOT happen&#8217; 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