“I want him to do the interviews, and I want the interviews to go well, but he doesn’t like to do them,” Warren said TalkSport Boxing. “He just doesn’t like the press.”
Warren said Dubois has never been comfortable with media commitments and prefers to focus solely on fighting.
“I think the whole media thing is that he just finds it unattractive to him,” Warren said. “He just wants to get in the ring and beat somebody.”
The Hall of Fame promoter pointed to Dubois’ reaction after knocking out Anthony Joshua last year as another example of his attitude toward publicity.
“When he knocked AJ out, we couldn’t get him to the press conference,” Warren said. “He wanted to go home.”
Warren added that Dubois has shown more personality in recent roundtable appearances, especially before the Joshua and Filip Hrgovic fights.
“The one he did with AJ, they got pretty aggressive verbally,” Warren said. “I’ve never heard him swear before.”
Despite the attention surrounding Dubois’ exit interviews, Warren believes the promotion doesn’t need extra theatrics for Saturday’s fight.
“The fight doesn’t need a hype,” Warren said. “It is what it is.”
Dubois challenges Wardley for the WBO heavyweight title this Saturday in an all-British heavyweight fight that Warren described as one of the division’s biggest puncher-versus-puncher matches in years.
