Daniel Dubois has had 20 fights as a professional heavyweight while Oleksandr Usyk has had only four bouts in the same division. Usyk is much the smaller man, usually weighing 20 pounds less than Dubois who, at 6ft 5in, is two inches taller than him. Dubois is 25 and he clearly punches harder than the 36-year-old Usyk who is also living though the trauma of his country, Ukraine, being ground down by a Russian invasion that is no closer to being resolved now than when it began 18 months ago.
Yet the blunt truth remains that none of Dubois’s considerable advantages are likely to count for much when he steps into the ring in the Polish city of Wroclaw on Saturday night to challenge Usyk who will make the second defence of the IBF, WBA and WBO world heavyweight titles he won when he outclassed Anthony Joshua in September 2021.
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