DANIEL DUBOIS wants revenge on Dillian Whyte now he has a world title to dangle in front of the Body Snatcher.
When the 24-year-old took a knee in his 2020 loss to Joe Joyce, to protect a cracked eye socket, Whyte, 34, accused him of “quitting”.
And, after Dubois grabbed the WBA regular title in Miami from a battered Trevor Bryan on Saturday night, trainer Shane McGuigan picked PPV fans’ favourite Whyte as the best commercial target.
But Dynamite Dan remembers the slurs Whyte and a few other rivals hurled at him and insists it would be more than just business for him.
“Yeah I definitely will be,” he said when asked if his hit list will include the possible opponents who insulted him.
“I’ll be looking down the list thinking – right, that one said that about me.
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“Dillian said that about me so he’s getting it. I’ll be the bad guy again.”
Outside the ring, Dubois is perhaps the most placid prize fighter in the country and his post-fight plans paint the picture of a real family man who could never be tempted by the wild party scene at nearby Miami Beach.
Moments after the four-round demolition job, he said: “I’m flying back Sunday, I just want to see my little brothers, Prince and Solomon.
“I’ve been away for a while so it will be amazing to get back with the family.
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“These two weeks away have felt like forever, being put here just in my hotel room getting mad. But we’ve pulled it off.
“Solomon would have stayed up late to watch it. He’s a big boxing fan and seeing this will have inspired him I hope.”
That was Dubois’ second consecutive USA win and he is desperate for a homecoming now he has the regular title usually leads to a crack at the super version that Oleksandr Usyk took off Anthony Joshua last September.
“Yeah I definitely want my homecoming,” he said. “People like Joe Joyce, it will all come back around to them again.
“Dillian has to come back through me now, all of those guys who want to get to a world title have to come through me.
“It’s all interesting, but for now I just want to go home now and relax – I’m tired.”
McGuigan is racing back to his Leyton gym to get Dubois’s sister Caroline ready for her third pro fight on July 3 and he explained his reason for mentioning Whyte’s name ahead of any others.
“Dillian has only lost to elite guys in AJ, Fury and Povetkin, who he got rematch revenge over, I did not say his name out of disrespect. Dillian is a very good fighter.
“It would be a huge step-up for Dan but it would be a great one and I think it would sell out any arena we took it to. It would create a lot of interest because a lot of people will think he isn’t ready for it.
“We need to target a really credible name and ideally someone that has been selling out PPV shows and Dillian has consistently done that.
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“There are lots of good heavyweights out there but not all of them are big commercially. We want to make the best but also the biggest fights, that’s not about swerving anyone, it’s just the business. We have to go after people that are going to create a buzz.
“We want to box people who are very relevant and Dillian Whyte is that.”
