Yes. Dubois should fight the winner of Bakole-Parker next, whoever wins tomorrow will definitely deserve an IBF title fight.
Sorry but if you think he's ducking then you were either born stupid or you've worked really hard at it since. Literally no reason to do so. Been in with more dangerous fighters, risks being sidelined from the Saudi gravy train, risk being frozen out of lucrative future bouts.
It's not a good look for him nonetheless. There were many questions about him in the past and now this.
I think Warren was worried about this fight which is why he had Dubois storm the ring against Usyk looking to get out of the Parker fight. This was plan b in case that stunt didn’t impress Turki.
It wouldn't be that uncommon if it was one of the above conditions. Stuff like that can come and go in a matter of days. But if he's been vomiting or had the squirts he'll have flushed all the electrolytes out of his system by now and be in no fit state to fight.
Not a chance he ducked I'll give Parker credit for taking that Bakole fight tho He might have just sold his title shot off
I don't know but just calling it how I SEE IT, no bait/racist but I really have a hard time believing anything a UK / US fighter says. They both have some serious entitlement/superiority complex. UK having some legit comical levels of the latter. Mark my words, Dubois will have the worst reasoning ever to go straight to Usyk instead of the winner of Bakole / Parker. This truly mega sucks because to me, Parker doesn't do much for me but Bakole has some serious world class potential with a little polishing. Now he has to fight a bad stylistic match up without a full camp and if he loses it'll stall his career even further.
I don't think Dubois is ducking and that he is genuinely sick. But his stock will have fallen here regardless, there is and will be a bunch of people who thinks he is ducking, or failed a drug test or something. Also I'd just like to note that yes Dubois fought some hard fighters and had no fear, but there is a difference between coming in as the underdog with nothing to lose and being the champ and the favourite with a lot more pressure and everything to lose. Different kinds of fear, I'm sure Joshua knows it well, where as for Dubois this will be the first time he had so much expectations and pressure on him.
Some god awful posts on this thread. Clearly Dubois hasnt ducked Parker, he literally signed to fight him as a voluntary and caught ill, which other fighters on the card have, and a doctor declared him unfit to fight. Probably a 24 hour bug where he has the shits. Secondly, of in the summer Usyk offers a fight to Dubois, he would be foolishness turn it down and face Parker again, foolish. Parker will be a mandatory challenger, so he'll get his shot regardless. No duck has gone on here and I can't believe some fans are dense enough to think there is.
If Dubois has to duck Parker his reign might as well already be over. If you want to duck someone its usually never in the final hours before a fight. Stuff happens.
No, those words at not wise at all. If Usyk approaches Dubois for a fight next, Dubois should take that, he absolutely shouldn't duck Usyk to face Parker instead. You're so unwise it makes me angry. No offence.
Yeah, but Usyk won't just offer him a fight. If Dubois will try to force his hand and duck the winner of Parker Bakole, that would mean he ducked the fight.