\nMANCHESTER, ENGLAND – MAY 09: Daniel Dubois punches Fabio Wardley during the WBO World Heavyweight Title fight between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois as part of the Wardley v Dubois Don’t Blink fight card at Co-op Live on May 09, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n
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Davison has previously been praised for getting his timing right in throwing in the towel, allowing Tyson Fury to rise to his feet and knock out Deontay Wilder in a historic night, while also leaving Leigh Wood in the ring for his win against Michael Conlon.<\/p>\n
In a statement shared on his Instagram page, Davison said: “On last night, firstly congratulations to Dubois. Two tremendous warriors in a modern day classic.<\/p>\n
“We are super proud of Fabio. I actually agree the fight could have been stopped earlier. I did not see Fabio stumble before walking over to the doctor at the start of round 10.<\/p>\n
“As ironically, we were discussing with each other to ‘have the towel in hand.’ By which time he had gone over and seen the doctor and seemed much steadier on his legs, which is what we saw.<\/p>\n
“It’s such a difficult job to not only find a balance but to striker at the right time to stop a fight like that on a whim when your guy is responsive and firing back.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been praised for not towelling Fury (Wilder). I was praised for not towelling Wood (Conlon). I was firstly criticised, then later praised for towelling Wood (Lara).<\/p>\n
“Two occasions we looked at it but one, the end of the round came, two Fabio fired back and killed Dubois’ momentum. Again, very difficult in the circumstances of the fighter being responsive and firing back.<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen mixed opinions on this one but I agree it COULD have been stopped earlier. However with that said, I think Howard Foster got it band on from his terms.<\/p>\n
“Very easy to forget what Fabio has achieved. From four white collard fights to heavyweight champion of the world. Not an easy task to to or for us to help guide against the best in the world. Never been done before, never be done again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Daniel Dubois defeated Fabio Wardley in the 11th round to become WBO heavyweight champion 14:44,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}