{"id":198104,"date":"2026-05-09T23:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/05\/09\/dubois-survives-two-knockdowns-to-dethrone-wardley\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:01:28","slug":"dubois-survives-two-knockdowns-to-dethrone-wardley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/05\/09\/dubois-survives-two-knockdowns-to-dethrone-wardley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubois survives two knockdowns to dethrone Wardley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p ><b >Daniel Dubois survived two knockdowns &#8211; the first after just 10 seconds &#8211; to dethrone a bloodied but courageous Fabio Wardley in the 11th round of a thrilling heavyweight classic and become a two-time world champion.<\/b><\/p>\n<p >Wardley floored his fellow Briton early with a flush right hand and dropped him again in the third, before Dubois regrouped and responded with wave after wave of heavy shots.<\/p>\n<p >The Ipswich fighter, his nose damaged and one eye swollen shut, staggered around the ring yet somehow stayed on his feet and continued to fire back. <\/p>\n<p >As the contest drifted into uncomfortable territory, the referee had eventually seen enough and halted the fight. A distraught Wardley sank to his knees as Dubois celebrated capturing the WBO heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p >The 28-year-old Dubois silenced his critics with a clinical display of power in his 23rd professional victory and reasserted himself at the top of the division.<\/p>\n<p >Wardley, 31, lost for the first time in 22 fights &#8211; the fighter who famously rose from the unlicensed white-collar circuit&#8217;s fairy-tale ascent hitting a roadblock.<\/p>\n<p >With knockout power stacked heavily on both sides, the fight lived up to its &#8216;don&#8217;t blink&#8217; tagline, as promoter Frank Warren confirmed there is a rematch clause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div >\n<p >More to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Dubois survived two knockdowns &#8211; the first after just 10 seconds &#8211; to dethrone a bloodied but courageous Fabio Wardley in the 11th round of a thrilling heavyweight classic and become a two-time world champion. Wardley floored his fellow Briton early with a flush right hand and dropped him again in the third, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.1 (Yoast SEO v18.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dubois survives two knockdowns to dethrone Wardley - Tahrir News<\/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:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2026\/05\/09\/dubois-survives-two-knockdowns-to-dethrone-wardley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dubois survives two knockdowns to dethrone Wardley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Dubois survived two knockdowns &#8211; the first after just 10 seconds &#8211; to dethrone a bloodied but courageous Fabio Wardley in the 11th round of a thrilling heavyweight classic and become a two-time world champion. 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