Daniel Dubois records career-high weight for Fabio Wardley fight as Simon Jordan stokes the flames in tense face-off

Daniel Dubois has tipped the scales at a career-heaviest weight ahead of his shot at Fabio Wardley’s WBO crown on Saturday night.

The 28-year-old weighed 251.7lbs – 9.5lbs heavier than Wardley – who came in at 242.2lbs.

It marks a 3.2lbs increase on ‘Triple D’s’ previous high of 248.5lbs recorded before his five-round demolition of Anthony Joshua in September 2024.

After both men jumped off the scales, they entered ‘The Cauldron’ with talkSPORT’s Simon Jordan, who did his best to stoke the flames 24 hours before their domestic dust-up at Manchester’s AO Arena.

A pumped-up Dubois mostly skirted around Jordan’s probing questions, but he did produce a few of his classic one-liners.

“It’s seek and destroy, I’m ready, I’m on it,” bellowed Dubois.

“The talking is done now, I am ready for war.

“I’m ready for a fight. I have trained hard.

“I have got to take his 0, and that is it.

“I’m going to show up, he’s facing Daniel Dubois, let’s see what he has got.”

Jordan got considerably more out of Wardley, who was all too happy to wax lyrical about his opponent’s perceived ‘lack of heart’.

“I stand by my words; he varies from a 2 to a 6, 7, 8, or 9,” said Wardley.

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Wardley vs Dubois full card weigh-in results

Fabio Wardley (242.2lbs) vs Daniel Dubois (251.7lbs) – WBO heavyweight title fight

Jack Rafferty (146.9lbs) vs Ekow Essuman (146.7lbs) – welterweight

David Morrell (176.1lbs) vs Zak Chelli (177.1lbs) – light heavyweight

Bakhodir Jalolov (254.9lbs) vs Agron Smakici (241lbs) – heavyweight

Brad Rea (173.8lbs) vs Liam Cameron (174.4lbs) – light heavyweight

Khaleel Majid (139.7lbs) vs Gavin Gwynne (139.7lbs) – super lightweight

“In some performances, he has done well, in others not so much.

“You take the [Oleksandr] Usyk fights, he hasn’t done well. You even take the Kevin Lerena fight, OK he came out and got the win, but there were multiple times when he was taking knees without being touched.

“He didn’t take a punch, he didn’t take anything on the chin, he just took a knee.

“Once you have opened that door, once you have shown that side of your character, all that does is leave spaces for people like me to expose it…

“I’m not going to discredit the achievements that Daniel has had.

“If you want to talk about that top one per cent, he has fought more of those guys, and he has beaten more of those guys [than me].

“But that isn’t going to change anything. It’s only me and him when that bell goes.”

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