Frank Warren has opened up on what people usually misunderstand about his boxers fighting each other, as Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley put together to sq. off in May.
Dubois and Wardley are each signed to Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, and they will clash over Wardley’s WBO heavyweight title on 9 May, at Manchester’s Co-op Live area.
It’s there that one in all Warren’s other British heavyweights, Moses Itauma, headlines against American Jermaine Franklin on Saturday, too. Victory for Itauma could even see him paired with the winner of Wardley vs Dubois later this yr.
With Queensberry having constructed such a robust heavyweight steady in recent times, these sorts of match-ups felt inevitable, however do they current Warren with any awkwardness?
“I think everybody wins, to be quite honest,” Warren countered, chatting with The Independent over Zoom. “There are fights that haven’t happened because of politics […] the fact that we’ve got quite a strong presence in the division [means] we are making the fights happen.
“And it’s not the end of the world if somebody gets beaten. Moses went and fought Dillian [Whyte], we made the fight. We’re making them happen.
“You look at Derek Chisora. What is it now? He’s got 13 losses on his record and he’s still getting involved in fights. So, we don’t give up on guys.
“What we’re trying to do is: get them to a stage where they’re at the best they’re going to be to fight each other, and to make the best money they can make for those fights. That’s what the journey is, and getting people reconnecting in a big way with the heavyweight division, which they have done.
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“Fabio and Daniel is a cracking fight. There’s such an argument for either of those, who’s gonna win the fight. They’re compelling fights, they’re ticket-selling fights, the guys are doing well, we’re doing well out of it, and the public are getting great value.
“The [fans are] getting on the journey with them. They’ll find whoever their favourite heavyweight is and they’ll follow him.
“And you know what it’s like, I’ve been in the pub years ago, [people say]: ‘I’d have liked to see A fight B, but it never happened.’ But it’s happening now, we’re making it happen.”
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