‘Stoppage is what I’m after’: Daniel Dubois aiming to make his mark against Anthony Joshua

Daniel Dubois wants to make his mark next month against Anthony Joshua.

Daniel Dubois has another chance to make a massive mark on the heavyweight division when he faces Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 21.

Dubois (21-2, 20 KO) has recovered from a pair of setbacks already, winning four straight fights after losing to Joe Joyce in 2020, and then two more since his 2023 loss to Oleksandr Usyk.

Most recently, Dubois stopped Filip Hrgovic for the best win of his career to date on June 1. But the fight with Joshua (28-3, 25 KO) will be a stadium-filling main event, clearly the true biggest fight of his career so far, even counting the fact that he faced Usyk for a trio of heavyweight titles.

And Dubois, 26, says he’s looking for a stoppage against the 34-year-old Joshua.

“Win by any means necessary, but a stoppage is definitely what I’m after,” Dubois told Sky Sports. “A good stoppage and a statement victory, that’s what I’m all about.”

Dubois certainly has the punching power, and Joshua has been stopped before in his massive upset loss to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019.

Joshua has won four straight following a pair of losses to Usyk in 2021 and 2022, and has mildly reinvented himself in the ring in three of those fights, before simply trucking a brutally over-matched Francis Ngannou in a March novelty fight where he went out and took care of business as a championship-level pro boxer ought to do when matched with a novice from the MMA world.

Joshua has his sights set on a possible Tyson Fury clash in 2025 if he can win this one, no matter what happens in the December rematch between Usyk and Fury, but he can’t afford to overlook Dubois, who is dangerous, talented, and may be just starting to actually peak.