Daniel Dubois' trainer, Don Charles, has played down the rumors that Dubois held a house party hours before his title fight against Oleksandr Usyk.

Dubois’s coach, Don Charles, has sought to set the record straight after the event was first reported on by The Times, telling Talksport on Tuesday (22 July): “Let’s replace the word ‘party’ with ‘gathering’. It was a gathering, okay? Right.

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