Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois’ teams overshadow fighters at fiery press conference

When Ofo said of Jones, “This is the same guy that called [Dubois] a quitter previously,” Jones hit back, “Michael, you’re digging up old stuff,” and dismissed Ofo’s work with Wardley.

In turn, Ofo accused Dubois’s team of being a “bunch of yes-men” who “encourage stupid behaviour”.

Daniel Dubois’s agent Sam Jones got into a back-and-forth with Ofo (Getty)

Wardley, 31, and Dubois, 28, also had their own back-and-forths, of course.

At one point, Dubois said: “I heard you called me the ‘dust man’, and I’m gonna collect the trash, boy. I’m gonna collect that trash. Na, it’s disrespect, so I’m gonna put it right in the ring, boy.”

Wardley replied: “I didn’t call you the ‘dust man’; someone asked me what you might have as a job [if you weren’t a boxer], and I said: ‘Might be a bin man.’ There was nothing negative in that.

“Don’t let other people get in your head and tell you what it comes across like. You didn’t hear what I said, because you don’t run your own social media. You let other people talk to you and tell you what it should be like. It wasn’t like that, I didn’t say it was a bad job.”

Wardley also labeled Dubois’s “mentality” both his greatest strength and weakness, saying: “I think sometimes you’ve seen in Daniel’s fights, he’s proven to be very durable, strong, mentally resilient, and in other fights, you’ve seen that lacking for whatever reason – whether that be lacking confidence in training, or the team around you haven’t done the right job. It depends on what Daniel turns up, I think that can be the flip of a coin sometimes.”

Wardley and Dubois facing off after their final pre-fight press conference (Reuters)

While Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) would not be drawn on an exact prediction for how the fight might play out, Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KOs) specified: “It’s gonna be over and out, he’s gonna be cleaned out.

“There’s gonna be no questions about it. There’s gonna be no ifs, buts, maybes. I’m gonna land clean, land sharp, and I’m gonna get him out of there.

“Look, I wish him all the best. I hope he’s healthy, I hope he’s happy, I hope everything’s all good. I hope camp’s gone well, I hope he’s fresh, I hope he’s in the shape of his life, because all them things are ‘yes’ for me.”