Daniel Dubois is underrated

Good read due to recent events

 

You can say Dubois was very fortunate not to get stopped by the referee in his fight with Lerena, but the referee made the right move. A ref should stop a fight when a fighter can’t fight back, and Dubois went on to destroy Lerena (point being the referee made the right call). Yes, most modern refs would have stopped the fight, but most modern refs would have also stopped Ali vs Foreman. Go watch the fight and see how much damage Ali absorbed, so who cares modern refs are garbage. Also, there was no three-knockdown rule in force, despite what Dubois detractors tell you (it’s a stupid rule to begin with, and it’s funny how people pretend they care about it).

Dubois has weak head movement, but what fighter doesn’t have weaknesses? He’s also a dirty fighter. Watch Tyson vs Ruddock II. Are those two bad boxers? Wlad was a dirty fighter too (watch Wlad vs Alexander Povetkin). Does that make him bad? Are Shavers and a prime Foreman bums because they weren’t technical masters? Plenty of great heavyweights are bad/mediocre fighters with a couple great abilities. Weak era? Compared to the 70s and 90s, sure. However, this era is still miles above the mid-to-late 2000s, the 2010s, and the 50s, and the main problem with this era is that most top fighters don’t fight each other. Dubois fights top level opposition more than almost anyone except Usyk. By the way, Usyk is fighting a kickboxer; imagine the criticism Dubois would get if he even touched a fighter outside the top 20.

Are you also the guy who accused me of defending the WBO because I said the Dubois fight was the best possible defense for Wardley’s WBO title? Then you brought up Kabayel as a better fight, which I agreed with, but I also pointed out Kabayel isn’t in the WBO top 15, meaning it wouldn’t count as a title defense for Wardley. Hahaha, couldn't understand a simple concept. I think you are smarter than that, but you are too focused on winning an argument on the internet, which is well indicated in your bio.

Anyway, I was correct. Dubois was a very good test for Fabio (I was confident in his win). Please pretend to be unimpressed by Dubois’ performance in some other thread.

 

I made this thread before the Fabio Wardley fight, if you remember. Posts like these were common:

“Will Daniel Dubois quit after Fabio Wardley lands a few hard punches?”

Also, Wlad got chinned by Sanders and Brewster, so anything is possible. I don’t buy the Klitschko propaganda that Wlad was “so green and inexperienced” in those fights. Wlad had weaknesses, but I would still pick him to win 70% of the time.

 

Recency bias? I made this thread during the peak of the Dubois hate. I think Dubois would make minced meat out of fighters like Samuel Peter, Jimmy Bivins, Tomasz Adamek, Tony Thompson, Eddie Machen, Bermane Stiverne, Luis Ortiz, Zora Folley, Bryant Jennings, John Ruiz, Nikolai Valuev, and Archie Moore (in all these fights, Dubois would be a massive favorite). Dubois loses to Wlad, Vladmir, Patterson, and Marchiano, but those are the cream of the crop in the era and Uysk would beat them anyway.