'not A Surprise' – Dubois Overhauls Coaching Team

Daniel Dubois has parted ways pinch caput coach Don Charles aft 18 months of moving together.

The erstwhile world champion has besides recruited Sam Jones arsenic his caller advisor arsenic he makes sweeping changes to his squad since losing to Oleksandr Usyk successful July.

The fall-out from Dubois' conclusion was dominated by questions astir a pre-fight gathering.

Usyk, 38, demolished Dubois successful 5 rounds and nan Londoner is now looking towards a rebuilding job.

Dubois gave small distant erstwhile announcing his departure from Charles. Tony Simms, Conor Benn's trainer, is nan frontrunner to switch him.

"I consciousness for illustration I request a caller alteration and a caller commencement for this adjacent shape of my profession wherever I look to go two-time heavyweight champion of nan world," he said.

Was nan alteration predictable and really would a caller coaching business thief nan heavyweight? BBC Sport investigates.

Dubois has a history of chopping and changing his coaches.

As an amateur, his begetter Stan was keen to fast-track his son's progression arsenic he hopped betwixt respective London amateur clubs.

As a master Dubois has had stints pinch Shane McGuigan, Martin Tibbs and Martin Bowers.

Dave Coldwell, erstwhile coach of David Haye and Tony Bellew, says Dubois' determination to driblet Charles "wasn't a surprise".

"That's really it seems to beryllium successful boxing," Coldwell says.

"A batch of times nan coach gets nan blame. A batch of times it seems to beryllium erstwhile nan combatant is winning, nan coach is great. but erstwhile he gets hit nan coach isn't bully enough."

There is besides nan added hostility of nan pre-fight party. Dubois' promotional institution Queensberry were unhappy erstwhile they discovered nan arena happened.

Charles went nationalist successful his defence of nan party, organised successful main by Dubois' father, insisting it was not ample and a akin "gathering" had been held earlier nan world title triumph against Anthony Joshua past year.

"I consciousness you possibly can't clasp nan coach accountable for that," Coldwell says.

"I consciousness arsenic though location are different influences different than nan trainer successful position of what happens pinch Dubois and what goes connected astir nan fights."

Dubois has besides dropped co-trainer Kieran Farrell from his coaching set-up.

Farrell and Charles helped guideline Dubois to his first world title, but it is good known his begetter Stan besides plays a large domiciled successful nan decision-making, alongside promoter Frank Warren.

The summation of advisor Jones, Coldwell thinks, will suit Team Dubois arsenic he does not "interfere pinch immoderate of nan training".

"Are location excessively galore voices and things for illustration that [in squad Dubois]? In this time and age, Anthony Joshua has 162 group astir him," Coldwell said.

"That's what happens pinch fighters - it's who you allocate nan jobs to, are they nan correct people, and do they enactment successful their lane aliases do they commencement interfering successful situations they cognize thing about? That's wherever nan threat tin lie."

Should his assignment beryllium confirmed, Simms is nary alien to heavyweights.

Johnny Fisher precocious joined his ranks while Simms has besides worked pinch Joshua successful nan past.

The coach is successful complaint of nan Matchroom Elite Boxing Gym successful Essex, a short travel from wherever Dubois and his family live.

Dubois has bounced backmost successfully from 2 large defeats successful his career, to Joe Joyce successful 2020 and Usyk successful 2023.

Warren is apt to lucifer Dubois conservatively for his return bout and astatine 27 location is nary unreserved to instantly get backmost into world title contention.

Coldwell does not expect Dubois to beryllium transformed arsenic a combatant but did place 1 facet a caller coach could look to activity on.

"Mentality is simply a large point pinch Daniel Dubois," Coldwell says.

"We each cognize he tin punch, he's sewage a bully jab, he astir apt needs a spot amended defence but he needs to besides get his mentality sorted.

"I mean erstwhile things are going against him. He needs to study really to header pinch things erstwhile they aren't going his ain way."