Daniel Dubois believes he did not are worthy of to drop in his entire world title clash with Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday evening.
The Brit was knocked down twice on his way to a stoppage defeat in the ninth spherical, but he believes the fight should really have been around four rounds earlier.
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In the fifth, Dubois appeared to land a human body shot that dropped Usyk, but it was ruled a small-blow by the referee.
The Ukrainian was subsequently provided extra than a few minutes to get well and when the struggle resumed he did not appear to be also badly afflicted.
But, Dubois has argued that the punch was lawful and that he has been ‘cheated out of’ successful the WBA, WBO and IBF unified heavyweight environment titles.
In his submit-struggle interview, Dubois mentioned: “I you should not feel that was a reduced blow.”
“I think that landed and I have been cheated out of victory tonight. What else can I say?”
Meanwhile, the Brit’s coach, Don Charles, was furious, as he viewed back the replay and raged: “How is that very low? It truly is there to be viewed, how is that small?!
He ongoing shouting: “How is that small?! Glance at it, search at it! Engage in it all over again! There! How is that very low?! Appear at it!”
And Dubois’ promoter, Frank Warren, exposed they will be interesting the consequence, as he mentioned: “He was cheated out of victory. It strike him on the waistband. That is all he worked on in camp, doing work to the body, he observed that as a weak point.
“The referee bought it terribly erroneous, terribly improper. I like Usyk, but that was a finish hometown conclusion. He won that struggle… It is really a nonsense, total nonsense.
“The governing bodies will have to do some thing about it and they will get a rematch. How can you not purchase a rematch on the toughness of that? He won it.
“We’ll attraction what is actually long gone on in this article. I’m rather confident they are going to buy a rematch. Justice has to be carried out.”
