Daniel Dubois shocked the boxing world when he knocked out Anthony Joshua last month.
Although ‘DDD’ went into the contest as the champion he was the heavy underdog before the first bell rang. However, the 27-year-old dominated the action from the first bell and had AJ down in opening round from a thunderous right hand. Dubois sent his man to the canvas a further two times before landing the final right hand in the fifth to close the show.
Many thought the size of the occasion might get to the IBF champion, but Derek Chisora told Seconds Out that it was Joshua who ‘froze’ on fight night.
“There’s no two ways about it, he [Joshua] froze.
Look at the fight. He was chucking like he didn’t want to hit Daniel. He froze from the moment the bell went. I think he froze from the moment he walked out his dressing room. He didn’t feel the canvas around the ring, walk around, things like that. Things he normally does he didn’t do. He came in and went in one corner, that was it. You have to look at people’s way, how they do stuff.”
When asked for his thoughts on the rematch, Chisora was confident that AJ would get revenge.
“The best thing is the rematch, I believe Joshua wins in the rematch. He has to change his ways. He wins in the rematch. He’ll go back and look at it and say this is what I did wrong, this is what I’m gonna fix and he’ll fix it. That is it. It’s just one of those things.”
Although no official announcement has been made, it appears that all parties, including Turki Alalshikh, want the rematch to happen next.
