Boxing News

Stanley Dubois - real name Dave - is under the cosh from boxing fans after throwing a lavish 70-person party at his Essex mansion just hours before his son's defeat by Oleksandr Usyk in the biggest fight of his career. How could Stanley, the boxing community wonders, expect Daniel to make merry with complete strangers, a misstep which saw him arrive later than ideal and lose his parking spot at Wembley? It is a question only Stanley and Daniel can answer. The Times broke the initial report of the party, though it remains unclear to what extent the boxer consented to it going ahead. But it is also worth asking: where would Dubois have been without his father in the first place?...read