Joe Joyce stops Daniel Dubois in 10th round of heavyweight fight | Boxing News
Joyce stopped Dubois in a battle between undefeated heavyweights
Joe Joyce damaged Daniel Dubois’s left eye and stopped him in the 10th round of an intriguing clash between undefeated British heavyweights in London on Saturday.
Joyce hit his opponent’s severely swollen eye with a wand, dropping Dubois dramatically to one knee. When he got up, the referee immediately called off the bout.
Olympic silver medalist Joyce’s vast experience has finally overtaken the prodigious punching power of Dubois, who is 12 years younger, after their fight at a crossroads which saw the British, European and Commonwealth titles on the line. .
Joyce stopped Dubois in the 10th lap
Dubois fell to one knee and was saved by the referee
Dubois, 23, had 14 knockouts in 15 wins, but retained the end of Joyce’s jab and eventually weakened.
Dubois’s difficulty in avoiding the jab was apparent from the first exchanges: Dubois opened up to show his power in the second and as they grabbed hold, the young man exploded to land offensive punches.
Dubois then sank onto a right hand in round three, but Joyce, famous for his chin, absorbed it and controlled the rest of the round behind his jab.
The fourth was for Joyce’s jab and Dubois finished it with a puffy, scarred face.
Dubois’ powerful punches were absorbed by Joyce
The pre-fight consensus was that Dubois’ hopes were in the opening laps, but he reminded Joyce of his dangerousness in the fifth, landing right and then left.
Halfway through Dubois’s left eye was badly swollen and had already been tested more than in all of his previous fights combined.
Dubois hit a big right hand in the seventh, but the toughest Joyce held on.
As the rounds progressed, the damage around Dubois’ left eye only got worse and the fight slowly dwindled in favor of Joyce, whose pre-fight prediction was to win the fight in the following rounds.
A few seconds after the 10, Joyce picked up another thud and Dubois suddenly knelt down.
Although he stood up, there were no complaints from him when the referee stopped the fight.
Dubois’s left eye was badly damaged
Joyce can now chase a world title
Underdog Joyce, 35 and now unbeaten in 12 with 11 saves, returned home with British, European and Commonwealth titles but, more importantly, a boost to his world title ambitions.
Dubois had been ranked No.2 with the WBO, the governing body that recognizes Oleksandr Usyk as Anthony Joshua’s mandatory belt challenger.
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He next plans to fight WBC champion Tyson Fury in 2021, but Usyk will push for his mandatory fight, and now Joyce is a new addition to the mix.