“I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PAST AND ALL THAT BULLS**T!”
YOU would have been disappointed if Daniel Dubois hadn’t put in that kind of performance against Ricardo Snijders?
Well yeah. He was jumping out of his skin, he’s a big man, he’s a young man and he’s very powerful and he just wanted to get in the ring. It was very disappointing that Erik Pfeifer didn’t send through the correct medical documents and we had to hunt for a new opponent. We did try hard and Snijders was the best available we could get. I would have preferred a much better opponent than that obviously. Having said that, Daniel is what he is. He’s a big punching, strong, dynamic fighter and I think he takes the fight out of most guys with his first shot. Snijders wasn’t allowed to get into the fight and I think most fighters, if they’d have got in there with Dubois on that night, the same thing would have happened.
Talk us through, firstly, how difficult it is to get an opponent for Dubois anyway and then how difficult it must be in the current climate.
The current climate is very difficult. We’re in a situation where we can’t even look at the ratings and say, ‘right, here’s a guy who’s ranked above Daniel, let’s try and get him’ because there’s travelling problems, particularly with guys from the States and so forth. It’s very difficult at the moment, particularly if someone gets injured. We had two guys on the
