‘Do you want him to die in the ring?' – Tyson Fury leaps to Daniel Dubois' defence after Oleksandr Usyk defeat
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TYSON FURY has leapt to the defence of Daniel Dubois and blasted "jealous" boxers who accused him of quitting.
Dubois was twice floored in round five against Usyk - firstly with a right hook and then moments later with a counter left.
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Daniel Dubois was knocked out in five rounds by Oleksandr Usyk
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Dubois failed to beat the count
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Tyson Fury spoke out in defence of Dubois
The former IBF champion came under criticism from fighters for getting to his feet at the count of ten then walking to his corner.
Derek Chisora and Dave Allen were among those to claim Dubois "QUIT".
But two-time heavyweight champion Fury raged at the suggestion in a lengthy Instagram rant.
He said: "I keep getting asked about this Dubois situation and all this quitting stuff and whatever else.
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"Here's the facts, facts are young Daniel did his best against one of the greatest there's ever been and he wasn't good enough he come up short.
"He was down twice, what do you want him to do, die in the ring? There's no first place for getting battered to f*** and still losing.
"The lad did his best, he wasn't going to win the fight he's better off getting out of there.
"There's a lot of jealousy in boxing especially when an individual's making a lot of money.
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"A lot of jealous fighters, slagging someone off who did his best and had the guts to get in there.
"There is no cowards in boxing, when you're in that ring fighting world heavyweight champions, there is no cowards.
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"All the credit deserves to go to Daniel. He worked his b*****s off since being eight years old and f***ing won the world title and fought f***ing Usyk for undisputed.
"Now he's sitting at home, multimillionaire at 27 doing what the f*** he wants. Daniel, if you ever get to see this chin up, son.
"Your dad's proud of you, everyone's proud of you. You've come from a kid to a man to a world heavyweight champion that's boxed at Wembley in front of 100,000 people, you can't beat that, kid.
"If you ever want to do any training with a real straight man, come yourself to Morecambe anytime you want, kid.
"Because there's no jealousy here and there's no f***ing putting people down that's doing their best.
"I call them dream crushers and jealous b******s. Exactly what you are, dirty, jealous w*****s."
Dubois was accused of quitting against Joe Joyce in 2020 - despite wisely sitting out the count to fight another day after suffering a fractured orbital bone.
The same was levelled his way against Usyk in 2023 when he went down after a jab and failed to beat the count.
He was down twice, what do you want him to do, die in the ring?
Tyson Fury on Daniel Dubois
In the rematch, footage showed the moment Dubois' gumshield was punched out of his mouth by Usyk before hitting the canvas.
But he sat up mid-way through the referee's count only to get up as the count hit ten.
Chisora, 41, ringside at the fight, told SecondsOut: 'He quit. He quit again. Yeah, man, he quit. I don't understand.
"They were supposed to train different. They did not. It was set for him to win it.'
Allen, 33, said on his YouTube channel: 'Dubois got up at the count of ten, and he walked straight past Usyk to the corner, and he was completely fine.
"I think, and it's horrific to say, he quit yeah, he did. He quit, he didn't want to be there.
"It's hard with Daniel. I've never spoke to him, he's difficult to work out really. I felt sorry for him on the second watch.
'I think he was hurt, he was knackered, but his head had gone, head had fell off completely.
"He just wanted to get out of there, win, lose or draw, he wanted the fight over as quick as possible.
"Mentally fatigued - 99 per ent of that is Usyk, he did land some big shots but he quit again, he quit. That's the third time now.'
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