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Don Charles - Dubois vs Joshua Fight Talk

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Duration:: 15m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

- Let's see what it's doing, let's see what it's doing. - Hello. - Good morning, done Charles. - Good morning. - How are you doing, sir? - I'm doing very well on a sunny day like this. Like everybody. - Most definitely, thank you very much, done Charles, for joining us at such short notice, man. - That's all right, man. - Hey, man. - So Dan, we're not gonna take too much of your time, Dan. You know, we've just seen the beautiful news of Daniel DeBarr now becoming the IBF World Champion and you've landed a mega fight, Dan. Congratulations. - Thank you, brother. God is great. I always say God is great. I mean, you know this is great. - Most definitely. So Dan, how's Daniel looking? How's the preparation started off so far? 'Cause I know it's a bit, you know, we still have a little bit of time, but how's the preparation going so far, Dan? - Yeah, the preparation's going well. It's basically, as you know, Daniel's literally only just finished fighting Hergovich. So there's a little bit of time. There's a little bit of time that we have to let his body recover, 'cause he's gone from camp to camp, starting from the Usec fight, which is like four months ago. And the young man has been literally camp after camp three fights back to back. And then obviously, the body needs to, irrespective of how young he is and the body's able to deal with it in terms of his recovery. It would still have to be sensible and give him some time of, but he's just some type of kid that, although we give him time of from boxing, but he's always on a day-to-day basis, he takes care of himself. He doesn't bring, he doesn't smoke. And so he's always on five weight. You can know what I mean. He doesn't pile on the weight. And it is very disciplined individual, you know, which helps, you know, it's really a massive help for a coach from a coach who's some perspective, that you don't have an athlete, you have to remind how to be. He's a clean living individual. Credit to his upbringing, his father is very, very, very strict, just like a typical African Caribbean black family. The things we, how was raised as a black man? I think we've lost that in our society, where, you know, that street upbringing, but Daniel is of a person who was raised in my time, I mean, in my 60s. So the upbringing is currently having, his dad is still old school. It can use the word old school in the way he's raised his children. So hence why they've turned out, the way they've turned out is not an accident. - Yeah, man, I was watching an interview with Daniel's dad on seconds out. I was very impressed, very impressed. I even posted, "Mama, what's that?" 'Cause I said, "This dad is a phenomenal father, "man's raised for all these children and by himself as well." - I'm actually glad that because it doesn't actually, it doesn't do interviews and I encouraged him to do that one. I said, "You need to be hurt, people need to hear you." And he's a character and you can now see why Daniel's the way he is and the children because, like I said, he alluded to earlier on, he's a very disciplined individual himself. They always say that Apple doesn't fall far from the tree and that's the result of a product of what you're seeing in Daniel's aboa. It's not an accident, it was born that way. From day one, he knows wrong and right, which is what's missing from our society today. The kids don't know right or right because it begins at home. They say charity begins at home. The work that parents usually do at home no longer is there. It's very rare in the modern society, in the modern world that we're living. So that's what you're seeing. - Yeah, it's a beautiful thing to see done 'cause as we know, not the greatest image of black fathers is presented by this British media. So to see a father like that, I think it should be more so celebrated. - But it's up to us. I'm one of, I remember, like I said, I'm in my 60s in terms of my age, yeah. I've been in this country for 49 years in the UK. I was born in Africa. I came here when I was 14 years old and I've seen how things have changed. What we have to do, this is what I promote, is that we have to stop blaming anyone 'cause it's our own hands and fix our homes. To you fix your home, you can't fix other people. We have to fix, look upon ourselves, look into ourselves. And the culture we had, whether you're from the Caribbean or African, that's been diluted with the way the society have gone. We're losing our culture. We need to take control into our hands after we raise our children to be better citizens. So this is something I really feel passionately about. 'Cause like I said, haven't been in this country and grown up in this country, England have done a lot for me. I'm not a hypocrite, yeah. I came here to study with my parents, brought me here to where we came to find a study. Like I've seen the changes over the years and we really need to take a grip, get rid of black communities. Stop looking on anyone else or blaming anyone else. We have to recognize that this is our home. Yes, it's also a place, I've always looked upon it as a place of work. And that's what I do every day of my life that I've been in this country. I've studied and I work, I work every day. - Why did you study done just before you? - Life. (laughing) - I was not sports based. - My basic, basic education is nothing. I'm not, I'm not, I didn't study nuclear science, anything like that. I did basic, basic studies and I went to college. Good grades and my English literature is called very high. You know, my father was a, his backing was, or his background should I say, he's in banking, my father worked for the biggest African bank. Hence why the bank moved him over here to England in the early 70s to run a branch here in the city of London. Hence why we ended up here with the family, the bank brought us here. And then my father went back to Nigeria again to continue running the head office in Lagos. But I remained to further my education and you know, I'm the first born. I'm supposed to set example within my family and my brother who's my junior became a lawyer. I got two doctors in my family. My little sisters became doctors. So I was being the first born in my culture in Africa. You know, I'm the one who's supposed to be a lawyer or a doctor and I've become either a bum. I'm well read, but lo and behold, look what I ended up doing. Obviously I'm really happy. This was a hobby of mine that turned out to be my profession. - Yeah, man. Now, but it's nice though, Dan. It's nice to see. I'm gonna tell you straight, Dan, it's lovely to see a black brother at the highest level, training another black brother at the highest level. It's beautiful to see. And just before you got on the stream, I was just saying to the stream, that although I think Ben Davison is a great coach, look at the fights that you've had with Daniel. Usick, you've had Ergovich and Gerald Miller. AJ hasn't had those type of threats with Ben Davison. So I'm trying to say, look at where Daniel's career was going after Joyce. You've came in and look what's going on now. It's one of the best rebuilding jobs I've ever seen. And now-- - And we've just started. I agree with you. I've just, but look, I'm not going to go into detail for that. I merely just came onto your show to introduce myself to your listeners. And there's, when it's my attention, action speaks louder than words. My intentions is to go. It's all very well been in a position where I'm grateful to God, I'm grateful to the universe, but we need to capitalize and cement it. There's no point in just getting here. And then I, for one, will not get carried away. It's my duty on my obligation to make sure we cement this position. It's tempering the sense that we've won. Daniel's going to won a world title. And that was always my ambition when I became a coach. I want to train a world champion. I've done that now. I've had many attempts, okay? And finally, you think God's time, when I wanted it, I'm a human being, I'm a God's child. God always has plans for all of us. Yeah, God said, not yet, not yet. I'm going to equip you with so much ammunition that when you get there, then you can facilitate and capacitate anything that's thrown at you. And that's where I believe me personally as a coach, that I am in the position. But like I said, I'm a senior citizen. I'm not getting carried on by a little boy. I've got a lot of experience in all aspects, not just both in all walks of life. So it's my duty, my obligation, hadn't gotten here, need to recognize where we are and seize it and cement it and make it permanent, rather than it's not temporary thing. That's my duty. That's why-- You say it's temporary, Daniel? I mean, you've already had three big boy fights already. Correct. Correct. And to be honest, I mean, even-- You've been a household name for years now, so this is most definitely being cemented. I mean, with that AJ win, that will be-- Well, absolutely. That's what I'm eluding to. We will go, and we will be victorious. If it's written, and I believe it is, yeah, if it's written, and I truly believe it is, because no one foresaw that Daniel Dubois will be able to be maneuvered in the way his career has done to be where he's now fighting AJ as a person that I'm very, very familiar with. That's the story for another day. A person whom I've had a big, big, important-- Well, we've got a question here. Don, sorry to interrupt her. You used to train AJ to ask him what do you think? AJ, that's one of our patrons who's in here. Let me read the question word for word. Question for Don Charles. What does he think of Anthony Joshua seen as though he used to train him? Well, what I think of the young man is a young man that stopped me in the street when he was my team to offer my help. And I obliged, and I helped him. I'm not going to go expand on now. I'll leave it there. What I think of him, I'm so proud of him. I'm so proud of him, what he's gone on an achieve. And when the chicks are down, I usually send him a message or I call him, say, don't be upset. Don't be down, because the day you stop me in the street when you was age of 19 to ask for my help, if I told you then that the way God has written it for you, you're going to become who you went on to become, and ameth the wealth you're going to ameth and achieve, what would you say? You said, Uncle, you're right. I said, don't you dare God will vex with you because you've achieved so much, right? And I'm proud of him. Unfortunately, I'm threatening a person, a young man named Adam DeBois, who's going to now fight him. But that's the way he's been written. It was always going to happen, Dan. It was always going to happen because, let's be honest, Frank was building DeBois for the AJ fight eventually, but I'm just glad the Saudis have come in and this fight is a real issue. Well, it's accelerated in terms of, yeah, the Saudis come in bold, his excellencies refer to, it's accelerated, the where things are happening now within the industry for the better obviously, because otherwise these fights don't material, they take years and years to materialize, some of them sometimes they don't materialize. So, yeah, look, it's written. I always keep saying repeat, and it's the way it's been written by God. - Definitely so. - Indeed. Here is a comfortable, noble, comfortable. - Well, just on the back of that, are you happy now, Dan, that the Saudis are now involved? There are potentially increasing fighters pay and creating the fires and maneuvering. - Oh, noble, sorry, sorry, Dan, you can't hear. Noble, sorry there's an issue done, can't hear you on this line. - Okay. - Type that question in the chat, sorry. - Okay, no problem. - Continue, no problem. - No problem, Dan, Saint says, shout out to Don Charles, thank you for joining question. Can you share any specific training experiences with both fighters that highlight their unique strengths and weaknesses? - That will be telling, I'm not a little bit too to disclose anything, I'm just going, I've merely come on here to be on your-- - No, no, no, no, no, no, you know what we try to-- - I can't. - We try to see how far we can push it up, Dan. - Well, you can push me, you can try it. (laughing) And hey, remember, I know the citizen and anything you're going to ask me. Yeah, I'm conditioned to answering questions. So, ask me anything, I will answer you to the best of my ability. And there's only so much I will disclose that one. It's too premature to the fastest that it's just been announced. So, it's time to--