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Daniel Dubois stomachs eye-watering costs as Joseph Parker forfeit robs him of career-high payday
Daniel Dubois’ trainer has told talkSPORT that his client was left substantially ‘out of pocket’ following the collapse of his bout with Joseph Parker. Dubois was due to defend his IBF heavyweight title against Parker as chief support for Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev‘s rematch in Saudi Arabia on February 22. GETTYDubois pulled out of the Parker fight with an illness[/caption] However, the Brit fell ill a couple of days before the fight and subsequently withdrew from the contest on the advice of a doctor. As a result, Martin Bakole stepped in to replace Dubois on short notice and was dispatched inside two rounds by Parker. According to reports, Dubois was set to pocket a career-highest payday of £7m to face Parker. But he saw none of that money after pulling out. In fact, Dubois’ trainer, Don Charles, claims his fighter ended up losing a lot of money from the cost of camp expenses. “Well, yes [we received no payment],” Charles told talkSPORT’s White and Jordan on Thursday lunchtime. “It is not just for this incident. That is widespread. “For those who don’t know, when a fighter does a camp, especially a camp of this magnitude when you are a world champion training to defend your world title, and the fight doesn’t happen the fighter doesn’t get paid. “No one gets paid. It actually costs the fighter a lot of money to facilitate the camp for sparring partners, hotels etc. “So the fight is out of pocket by quite a substantial amount. Dubois’ trainer Charles claims his fighter was left substantially ‘out of pocket’ due to camp costsGetty “That is the business you have to speculate to accumulate. “So that expenditure is whatever fighter lays out. “In this case, he is out of pocket. I am not going to disclose the amount but it was quite a lot of money.” Dubois will now wait to see what his next steps are. WBA, WBO and WBC champion Oleksandr Usyk is keen to rematch Dubois next for the undisputed heavyweight crown. But the WBO have thrown a spanner in the works by ordering Usyk to face ‘interim’ champion Parker. Usyk knocked out Dubois in 2023GETTY WBO president Gustavo Olivieri insists the major sanctioning body will consider any exception submitted by Dubois or Parker’s camps for the four-belt shoot-out to come first, although it is not guaranteed to pass a Championship Committee vote. In an exclusive statement provided to talkSPORT.com, Olivieri wrote: “If an exception is lodged with the Championship Committee requesting that the unification be allowed to supersede the enforcement of the mandatory, the committee per its discretion, may allow it to do so. “We shall wait and see what happens. At present, no request of such nature has been petitioned.” Follow talkBOXING on social media talkBOXING is now on Twitter and Facebook. Follow us on social media for big breaking boxing news, exclusive interviews and the best bits from our talkBOXING YouTube show. Like our Facebook page HERE Follow us on Twitter HERE Sign up for our WhatsApp channel HERE
Daniel Dubois’ trainer has told talkSPORT that his client was left substantially ‘out of pocket’ following the collapse of his bout with Joseph Parker.
Dubois was due to defend his IBF heavyweight title against Parker as chief support for Dmitry Bivol and Artur Beterbiev‘s rematch in Saudi Arabia on February 22.
However, the Brit fell ill a couple of days before the fight and subsequently withdrew from the contest on the advice of a doctor.
As a result, Martin Bakole stepped in to replace Dubois on short notice and was dispatched inside two rounds by Parker.
According to reports, Dubois was set to pocket a career-highest payday of £7m to face Parker.
But he saw none of that money after pulling out.
In fact, Dubois’ trainer, Don Charles, claims his fighter ended up losing a lot of money from the cost of camp expenses.
“Well, yes [we received no payment],” Charles told talkSPORT’s White and Jordan on Thursday lunchtime.
“It is not just for this incident. That is widespread.
“For those who don’t know, when a fighter does a camp, especially a camp of this magnitude when you are a world champion training to defend your world title, and the fight doesn’t happen the fighter doesn’t get paid.
“No one gets paid. It actually costs the fighter a lot of money to facilitate the camp for sparring partners, hotels etc.
“So the fight is out of pocket by quite a substantial amount.
“That is the business you have to speculate to accumulate.
“So that expenditure is whatever fighter lays out.
“In this case, he is out of pocket. I am not going to disclose the amount but it was quite a lot of money.”
Dubois will now wait to see what his next steps are.
WBA, WBO and WBC champion Oleksandr Usyk is keen to rematch Dubois next for the undisputed heavyweight crown.
But the WBO have thrown a spanner in the works by ordering Usyk to face ‘interim’ champion Parker.
WBO president Gustavo Olivieri insists the major sanctioning body will consider any exception submitted by Dubois or Parker’s camps for the four-belt shoot-out to come first, although it is not guaranteed to pass a Championship Committee vote.
In an exclusive statement provided to talkSPORT.com, Olivieri wrote: “If an exception is lodged with the Championship Committee requesting that the unification be allowed to supersede the enforcement of the mandatory, the committee per its discretion, may allow it to do so.
“We shall wait and see what happens. At present, no request of such nature has been petitioned.”
