Daniel Dubois‘s former coach Shane McGuigan has given his opinion on the timing of his stoppage win over Fabio Wardley.
Despite starting slowly and being put down twice in the first three rounds, Dubois showed his mettle and eventually got on top in the fight.
Wardley was shipping punishment form the. Mid-rounds and his face was left a swollen and bloodied mess. Despite inspections from the doctor, the contest wasn’t stopped until early in the 11th round, at which point Wardley was well beaten and sagging on the ropes.
Speaking to Seconds Out, McGuigan made an argument as to why it should have been stopped earlier.
“Across all areas, not just one trainer as well, there’s three trainers in there as well, you’ve got Lee Wylie and his original coach as well. And then you’ve got the referee, who’s the closest to the action who stopped it, he inevitably stopped it in the end, and then you’ve got the doctors as well who I thought probably should have stopped it on the second look as well.
“It’s easy to live with it if the doctors stop it, do you see what I’m saying. ‘Oh it was such a great fight’, and maybe it would have caused a lot of arguments and potentially saved Fabio from those last rounds or whatever it was.
“I think it was a round from when the doctor looked at it the last time. Really, that was the telling of the fight, when the doctors looked at it and he looked more and more rocky, and the fight was won on that.
“Whereas if the doctors stopped it there could have been more of an argument to say there’s a rematch. The difference is you’ve got Daniel Dubois, a massive monster puncher in there against a guy who was physically not capable of defending himself. The best of him had left him cause he was physically exhausted and hurt numerous times so it was a dangerous place to be.”
Wardley was never knocked down despite the loss, and has triggered the rematch clause against Dubois that was in the contract for this fight.
