Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois get into a heated row over ‘binman’ comments
Daniel Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) addressed Fabio Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KOs) over his disrespectful comments during yesterday’s final press conference in Manchester, ahead of their May 9 world heavyweight championship clash, “By the way, I heard you call me the dust man, and I’m gonna collect the trash, boy!”During a fight week interview, the WBO world heavyweight champion was asked to assign Dubois an occupation in a playful scenario where he wasn’t a professional boxer. Wardley guessed that he would likely be a binman.
Dubois did not take the comment well, “Na, it’s disrespect, so I’m going to put it right in the ring, boy. I’m gonna bust his bubble anyway. That’s what I’ve got to do.”
Wardley replied back, “What did you say, dustman? I didn’t call you the dustman. Someone asked me what you might have as a job and I said, ‘He might be a binman’.
“There was no negative with that, don’t let other people get into your head and tell you what it comes across like,” Fabio advised.
Dubois interrupted him, “Na, I heard what you said. It’s disrespect.”
“You didn’t hear it,” Wardley quickly replied. “You didn’t hear what I said because you don’t run your own social media. So you didn’t hear it. You let other people talk to you and tell you what you should be like. It wasn’t like that. I just asked what job you might have and I said a binman. I didn’t say it was a bad job.”
A former recruitment consultant, Ipswich’s Wardley is unbeaten in 21 contests and has won English, British, Commonwealth, two Interim world titles, and a WBO World heavyweight title, which is remarkable considering he had just four white collar bouts behind him and didn’t start boxing until his 20s.
Dubois is the opposite to that, he has been boxing since he was a kid, had a stellar amateur career winning 69 from 75 bouts, collecting national and international titles. He turned pro to much acclaim after famously dropping the reigning IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in sparring as a teenager. Promoter Frank Warren built him with the moniker #everybelt, which came to fruition as he currently has at least 14 titles in his trophy cabinet, which includes the WBA Regular and IBF World heavyweight titles.
Their collision this Saturday night in Manchester is set to produce fireworks with both explosive heavyweights sharing a powerful 95% HO ratio, hence why the event is called, ‘Don’t Blink’.
