Daniel Dubois is on the comeback trail once again. It’s a trail he could probably walk blindfolded by now, his size-13 boots filling the mud imprints from his last march along this track. Three times “Dynamite” Daniel has been defeated, and when adversity strikes, all roads lead back to this path. It cannot be circumnavigated. And in the wake of a second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, the trail leads to the outskirts of Manchester, to the Co-op Live, to Fabio Wardley.
If the Dubois who crafted a win streak after his first loss, a TKO by Joe Joyce, was Dubois 2.0, then the heavyweight who did the same after a 2023 KO by Usyk was Dubois 3.0. Saturday may bring version 4.0, then, as the 28-year-old bids to bounce back from his second stoppage by Usyk.
