The purse bid for the World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight championship bout between Trevor Bryan and Daniel Dubois was officially postponed to next Monday, March 21. The original date was today, March 14, but at the request of Bryan’s team, the WBA rescheduled the bid for the new date. If both teams reach an agreement before March 21, the bid could be suspended.
Bryan is the WBA regular champion and must fight Dubois, who was the interim champion of the division before the world title reduction plan was initiated in August last year, so the two must fight immediately for the black and gold heavyweight belt.
Most anticipated fight of the year anyone?
outside of the very compelling Khan/Brook rematch, i would say yes, this fight stirs the most excitement
Gotta hope that DKP does not win this. If King does win he almost surely finds a way to convince the WBA to okay him postponing this fight to 2023 at the absolute earliest.
If/when they do actually fight, DuBois stops an out of shape Bryan in the first 5ish rounds.
Hopefully Bryan is the type who fights up/down to the level of his competition. He looked like crap against Guidry, but he’s looked better than that in past fights. If he gets in better shape and has a decent chin, something I’m not sure about with him, this could be a competitive fight. He comes in like he did against Guidy, he pretty much deserves a KO loss and will probably get that.
I would agree that Bryan, at his absolute best, is competitive with DD and it isn’t an entirely unwinnable fight for him. But I don’t know if I trust him to not only fight like that, but train like that also USF. In his last fight, unless he knew something we didn’t (and he might have), he was getting ready for Manuel Charr and he came in out of shape. If THAT guy shows up against DuBois then congratulations DuBois.
Get rid of a belt to add a black and gold belt? One pretender vs a maybe contender is what it is…
Why is it that Dubois is rated #1 by the WBA and does not even have Joe Joyce in their rankings, who not that long ago knocked out Dubois? This whole ranking system by the WBA is horribly corrupt, not to mention calling Bryan a world champion is a joke as USKK is their actual champion.
I agree, Don King and his crooked influences “under the table” had to stay in the mix of boxing by using Bryan as a “champion” to keep hold of some belt to make money. In reality, I still chuckle over the whole thing. Sad, but true. Don King’s era is fizzling out and anything he can do to hang on one more time is just that.
WBA : Worst Boxing Association !
I bid $12 for this crap
Boxing is so corrupt. How is dubois rated #1 challenger by the WBA, ahead of guys like Ruiz, Helenius, Parker, joshua, wilder etc ??
Don King doing everything to stall his last heavyweight hope to get first and last lottery payday against AJ instead rather than risk losing it against Dubois.