After his KO loss to Joe Joyce, heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois spent the night in the hospital. According to the Daily Star, Dubois suffered a fractured orbital bone and also some nerve damage around the left eye. He’ll visit a specialist on Monday to see if surgery is necessary.
Dubois’ eye was swollen shut from repeated piledriver jabs from Olympic silver medalist Joyce. He finally took a knee in round ten and was counted out after Joyce connected with another jab.
Promoter Frank Warren confirmed. “Daniel Dubois will be back,” stated Warren. “He is still only 23 and has a huge and successful career ahead of him. He took a risk, and this time it didn’t come off. Full credit for fighting his heart out as long as he did with a fractured orbital bone and nerve damage around his eye.”
The referee Ian John Lewis and Dyois’ corner are a disgrace. IJL didn’t call for the doctor. DDD’s corner heard their boxer say “I’m done” in the corner before the 10th round, but shoved him out for more punishment.
It’s this kind of ignorance that gets fighters killed.
Time to overthink his staffing. He is a very young heavyweight but did a wise decision to stop right then. Re-match in 2024.
Shame on those that have the nerve to call Dubois a quitter. His corner and the referee should be acountable for the negative consequences that can put in jeopardy the career of this young boxer. How many times this inept referee called the doctor to check Dubois eye condition?
Why his corner sent him for more punishment in a lost cause, while clearly can be seen Dubois complaining to his corner about his eye, during the minute after the 9th round?
A big black eye to boxing is in here, alongside to the one Dubois got.
In fairness, the eye looked like it was going to be a problem early on, but never looked like a fight-ending problem until about round nine. This isn’t like Abdulsalamov’s issue where it looked like a huge threat instantly. Dubios seemed to be handling it fine until very late in when it became a serious issue.
Abdulsalamov story is so tragic.
According to the Daily Star! ♂️♂️.
Has this been officially confirmed?
DD wish you the best, you’ll be back as a force in the division. Get healed and get back in the gym. No shame, you did what your corner should have done.
It looked like when the last punch/jab landed Dubois for sure realised his eye, or something in that area, was in serious danger.
The areas of the orbital area that cross my mind are the zygomatic arch and nerve that are located in the areas where the eye was mostly swollen during the fight. Nerve damage can be a risk especially when blunt or sharp trauma compresses against this nerve coming out of the zygomatic arch. Only Dubois would know how bad that pain felt and I am sure it would be painful. Pertinent tests to confirm this finding are facial X-rays and MRI.
Dubois did the right thing making his own decision and taking a knee seeing his corner, ref, or doctor did not react to the obvious over swelling getting worse round by round.
The orbital bone can heal on its own, but the problem could be the damege of the nerve. Hopefully isn’t be too extensive.
I was thinking about that right when he quit; like Brook in the Spence fight.. That’s a really bad injury in boxing at such a young age.
Feel bad for the guy and yes his corner and ref did him no favors but I can’t see him ever being a top heavyweight after this. Bad injury caused by the same exact punch over and over by a very slow opponent. Psychologically this will be very hard to deal with and honestly he’s not as good as advertised. If he were he would have slipped the jab and countered. I like how tough and strong Joyce is but let’s be realistic. He is painfully slow. Who could DD beat? AJ, Fury, Ruiz, Parker? I don’t think any of them.
Most of these young Heavyweight prospects are slow and robotic. Efa, Yoka, Hrgovic and others like that. Big and slow. JJ put himself ahead of that pack with that impressive win against DD. Good for JJ at his age he needed that win. Since Fury and AJ are likely to fight twice next year that leaves the only shot for JJ is if one of the belts strips AJ. I would like to see Jared Anderson step it up next year and see if he can get on that list of prospects.
The mess around the Wilder-Fury saga is disruptive to the whole division. I’m shocked these two didn’t agree to a fight in 2020. Originally, Wilder had 180 days to fight the rematch, which is why Fury is claiming he let the contract expire (who knows what the language was with force mejeur due to Covid). This needs to be a Q1 2021 fight with Fury and Joshua meeting late Summer. If not, they just wind up camping on belts that other guys want and rightfully deserve to compete for.
All 3 HW names you mention are right hand happy and quite one dimensional. Anderson is more balanced fighting with both hands. Majidov is one to watch. Go check out Victor Faust’s fight on YouTube from this weekend, really good style.
Sorry but you didn’t watch Yoka fight then, he’s very fast for a HW probably the fastest in combination punching. If he’s tough and punches hard enough (i don’t think he is for the moment) he will be HW champ of the world..
I know Joyce won this fight, but I don’t see this guy as a top 10 contender
Besides fury can’t see anybody beating him. Usyk will be a hard fight for both.
Very smart decision on his part to call it an evening. He knew his injury was a problem. He will be back.
Id imagine he does have a fracture.. He was getting pounded out by a tree trunk in the same place until he gave up.
I thought “big mouth” Johnny Nelson and Eddie Hearn were horrible in calling this a 23 year old kid with very little amateur experience, 16 pro fights a broken eye socket a quitter. How about Vitali quitting against Byrd in a title match with only 2 rounds left and way ahead on points, or better still hard man Duran crying “no mas” ? Hearn who i thought was a breath of freash air when he started , is turning out to be snake like all the rest. His ego is way off the chart.
Shame on Haye and Frampton for their comments ,especially Haye!
I seem to remember a “oh my big toe”excuse coming from Hayes gob after a piss poor performance and getting a beating! Hypocrite!