That is the opinion of Dubois’ trainer Don Charles ahead of the heavyweight shootout in Manchester on May 9.

Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KOs) holds a higher percentage than any active champion and is yet to face a man he could not drop.

When he was finally taken the distance by Frazer Clarke in March 2024, Wardley knocked his British opponent out after 2:28 of the rematch six months later.

It is a record which has marked him as one of the division’s most dangerous men but Charles is not so impressed. 

“For me he’s not even the biggest puncher Daniel has faced,” Charles told The Ring.

“His knockout percentage is the same as Daniel’s at around 95 per cent but Wardley’s is against lesser opposition, with all due respect.

“The only opposition that really compares is Joseph Parker and he finished the fight on his feet. He got stopped but he wasn’t knocked out.”

The clash at Co-op Live Arena will be Dubois’ first outing since he was dropped and stopped by Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley Stadium in July.

It was his second defeat to the all-time great Ukrainian, but before that he had racked up a three-fight winning streak that Charles believes eclipses anything that Wardley has put together.

He added: “You have to look at opposition. Daniel did three in a row; Jarrell Miller, unbeaten, Filip Hrgovic, unbeaten, Anthony Joshua, a proven two-time world heavyweight champion.

“We are not an ignorant team but what beats people before you even start is making the opposition out to be a monster. I don’t see a monster when I look at Fabio, I see a very determined, gritty fighter with a remarkable story.

"I respect all that but he’s no Usyk and he’s not a match for my boy. If we are going to a gun fight, I know who’s going to come out victorious.

“The public are writing Daniel off, they’re dismissing what he’s already done and suddenly Fabio is this monster but we know he’s not.”

All three of Dubois’ defeats have come inside the distance but Charles is adamant none have had any lasting effect ahead of the predicted “gun fight” in Manchester, which has been billed ‘Don’t Blink’ by Queensberry Promotions.

“It’s the same guy,” Charles said of Dubois.

“There is such a thing in boxing as getting caught with a punch that put us away. You’re not going to change everything about you because you got stopped in a boxing match. You have to recognize what was I doing when I took that punch and just before? 

“You ask if what you normally do works for you and the answer is yes. We just have to make sure we keep our discipline and try and rectify the errors that were made in the last fight. We will look at those area, what did we do wrong? And what did we do right?

“This is my profession. We were doing a lot right prior to the Usyk fight so we have to focus on the positives more, recognize the errors that we made and rectify them.”