Elvis Dube is quickly getting a reputation as a dangerman to be respected.The chunky Derby puncher has a patchy 14-fight paid tab (four wins, three inside) but destroyed durable Carl Wild, who'd outpointed him over four in the Steel City last month, in just 123 seconds at Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, last night (July 29).
Elvis' latest stoppage win brutally illustrates the iron he possesses in the leather that's wrapped around his willing fists; it took 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Kenny Anderson five rounds to put away the solid scrapper, with ten wins and three draws in 29, ten months ago.
But the 33-year-old Shinfield-handled light-heavyweight would have been instructed to make a fast and aggressive start, as the father and son pair of Mike and Jason were in the corner when, in 2008, their charge, then-unbeaten Adie Whitmore, chillingly put Wild's lights out eight seconds earlier than Dube did.
Yet Wild rightly started as favourite in this set 12-minute scrap after a three-point victory last month. But he quickly found himself forced back, roughed up, and sent hurtling towards to the floor with a huge right that thumped heavily on the 25-year-old Yorkshireman's dome. Ten seconds later and former pro Michael Alexander had completed his count.
Improving Dube has now won three of his last seven, including a stoppage over current British Masters 12st boss Jonjo Finnegan and a four-round points win over touted Welshman Justin Jones in May. A crack at a Midland Area or a Masters belt might not be far off.
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