Daniel Dubois is now rated 13th by the WBO in the latest rankings as against Ghana’s Harrison Lartey who dropped to the 15th.
Come the 27th of April, Ghanaian born current WBO Africa champion will square it off with Daniel Dubois at the WEMBLEY (SSE) Arena, London, at 10 pm Ghana time in a 12 round heavyweight contest set to be aired on BT Sports 1HD and ESPN+.
Richard Nii Lartey Harrison who stands at a height of 6′ 5″ / 196cm comes up against the preserved cash cow of Frank Warren nicknamed the ‘Dynamite’ Daniel Dubois who equals the same height of 6′ 5″ / 196cm.
Daniel Dubois has 10 wins 9 by way of KOs against the Ghanaian power house Lartey who has secured 14 wins and 11 by way of KOs. The 21 year old Daniel Dubois is yet to fight a real proven fighter like African blooded Harrison Lartey but fact is his very wealthy promoters are gradually building his pugilism curriculum vitae which makes the bout a complicated one indeed.
Both boxers are orthodox interms of stance and in KO ratio, Daniel Dubois now possess 90% against Harrison Lartey’s 79 but Harrison with more fight experiences.
For team Dubois, the idea was to get him a cheap boxer to improve his CV hence they hurried the deal worth over 20,000 dollars in such a short notice but after boxingGhana’s comprehensive checks and follow ups it is obvious that they certainly may have underrated the current WBO African King in Harrison Lartey and the thought of knowing that their investment could take a u-turn is riffling feathers in Daniel Dubois’s camp.
What is becoming obvious is that there is a lot of works going on behind the scenes.
Daniel Dubois only made his professional debut in 2017 against Harrison Lartey’s 2013 but have so far chalked 10 professional bouts as against Harrison’s 15. That shows averagely how fast the Daniel Dubois is been prepared and how much investment is placed on him to become the star they marketably wants to produce.
But the Greenwich, London, resident must go through Ghana’s number one rated heavyweight boxer who has a different ambitions of his own. Richard Harrison Lartey is poised to cement his name as Ghana’s first ever heavyweight world champion, sees this as the perfect opportunity to stake a claim and finally end the promoters dream.
Come 27 of this month when Harrison Lartey mounts the ring it is not just going to be himself against Daniel Dubois but also against an institutional investment headed by Frank Warren.