While preparing to fight Anthony Joshua on Saturday, Daniel Dubois celebrated his 27th birthday. That is an age of little significance, true, yet it is interesting all the same to consider how, in the context of Daniel Dubois,

Overpowered, overwhelmed, and now, surely, over the hill. Three weeks before turning 35, the age at which Anthony Joshua once promised to retire, the one-time emblem of British heavyweight boxing was dealt his gravest humiliation yet,

Daniel Dubois sensationally dismantled fellow Briton Anthony Joshua in five rounds to catapult himself into global sporting stardom in front of 96,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. The 27-year-old dropped Joshua multiple times to retain the IBF heavyweight title and leave his domestic rival's career in ruins.