Daniel Dubois vows to trash Fabio Wardley

MANCHESTER, England — Daniel Dubois has promised to “take out the trash” when he challenges Fabio Wardley for the World Boxing Organization heavyweight title Saturday in an all-British heavyweight bout at Co-op Live.

Dubois, 28, enters the fight with a professional record of 22 wins and three defeats, including 21 knockouts.

Wardley, the reigning WBO heavyweight champion, is unbeaten at 20-0-1 with 19 knockouts and will make his first title defense against Dubois.

The build-up intensified after Wardley told broadcaster DAZN that Dubois would be a “bin man” if the London heavyweight was not a boxer.

An intense and unscheduled face-off followed Wednesday after Dubois stayed to watch Wardley during an open workout.

The verbal exchanges continued Thursday at Co-op Live, the Manchester venue for the fight.

“Well, I am going to take out the trash. I am the dustman, he is the trash mate. I’ll take out the trash,” Dubois said of Wardley.

Dubois is trying to restore his standing among the heavyweight division’s top contenders after a crushing defeat to unified world champion Oleksandr Usyk in July 2025.

“I shared the ring with a top southpaw, a top heavyweight in Usyk, the best of his generation. I am a new fighter now and I am a new man.”

Wardley’s path to the WBO title has been unconventional, beginning in white-collar boxing events for amateurs who held other jobs.

He also went through grueling sparring sessions with Dubois early in his professional boxing career before becoming a world champion at 31.

Wardley claimed his biggest breakthrough in October, when he produced a sensational stoppage of Joseph Parker.

Dubois, however, said Wardley’s run will end in Manchester.

“I mean, his luck runs out when he comes against me,” he said.

“You’ve seen him keep coming back from the dead and this time he stays dead. RIP.”

Wardley defended his remark Thursday, saying it was not meant as an insult.

“Someone asked me what you might have as a job and I said, ‘it might be a bin man’, but don’t let other people get in your head.

“It’s not disrespectful. I didn’t say it was a bad job.”

Wardley said pedigree and experience will not decide the fight.

“Irrespective of pedigree, history, experience, I believe that I can beat him,” he said.

“I’ve proven that time and time again. It’s going to be over and out. He’s going to be cleaned out.”