“DANIEL’S just walked in,” shouts an unidentified voice in the direction of the office adjacent to PUG, Don Charles’ Finchley-based gym.
“The show must go on,” the trainer, sat behind his desk, in turn tells Boxing News, mentally and physically preparing for one of the last challenging training sessions he will conduct with one of the world’s heaviest-handed heavyweights ahead of his fight with another boxer widely considered among the very best in the world.
It is perhaps little surprise that that heavyweight, Daniel Dubois, wasn’t the one to announce his own arrival. In every way in which he is in his most natural environment when engaged in some physical activity – at 25 years of age that increasingly means targeting something with his destructive fists – he remains indifferent to verbally expressing himself.
When he enters the open-plan gym decorated in his new trainer’s image, he is confronted by two rings and considerably more evocative artwork. Over the first, smaller, ring is a print of a lion’s face accompanied by the words “Welcome
