Caroline Dubois yet to watch brother Daniel’s fight with Anthony Joshua after opening up on family fallout
CAROLINE DUBOIS still has not watched brother Daniel’s stunning win against Anthony Joshua in full – amid a family fallout.
Unbeaten Caroline moved out of her family home following a rift with dad and former mentor Dave – also known as Stan.
And the lightweight prospect is so focussed on her own career that she did not even tune in to brother Daniel’s world title fight with AJ.
She told Seconds Out: “I didn’t watch it but I saw the end, the stoppage and the knockdowns.
“And from what I heard and what everybody’s saying, as you said “resounding” – it was a beatdown from the first to the, fifth? Fifth round.”
Caroline is one of Stan’s 11 children, with her young brothers Prince, 20 and Soloman, 12, also amateur boxers.
And she was once part of a tight-knit family under the guidance of her imposing father.
But a row forced the family apart, with Caroline moving out of the family home and remaning trained by coach Shane McGuigan.
Meanwhile, big brother Daniel parted ways to join Don Charles, who McGuigan recommended as a new cornerman to dad Stan.
But such was the nature of the bitter falling out, Caroline has also lost touch with Daniel, who is coming off the biggest win of his career.
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She said: “I don’t speak to him anymore.”
Caroline believes moving out of the family home for independence is what caused friction with her father.
She opened up: “My dad’s got 11 kids in total, with my mum he’s got seven, and I’m the middle child.
“One thing you know about the middle child is that sometimes they get overlooked and they don’t get that attention and they have to fight for it.
“My dad was only paying attention to the boxers and to the boys. He didn’t really focus about the girls, by his own admission, he didn’t pay attention to my sisters.
“And so I guess as a young kid, you see that and you think, ‘Okay, what can I do?’ And I said, ‘I want to box.’
“I pestered him, I pestered him and he saw, ‘She truly has got a fire in her that’s different from her brothers. My dad put Daniel in boxing, but with me, I asked for it.
“I guess what it was is he just wanted me to stay a certain way. But I was nine years old and I’m growing.
“I went to school, my brothers didn’t go to school. I was on the GB team, I went to the Olympics because I was a good amateur.
“I used to travel a lot. You know, I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, I went to Bulgaria, Serbia.
I don’t speak to him anymore.
Caroline Dubois on brother Daniel
“I travelled everywhere and I think that helped open up my mind, helped change me, change my perspective.
“I saw how other people treated their children and my mind opened up. I saw what was acceptable and what I wanted to accept. My boundaries got bigger.
“And I remember coming to a conclusion for myself, ‘Who am I boxing for?’
“When I suffered my first amateur defeat of all time, I went 60 fights, never lost a fight, I lost for the first time and it was the most heartbreaking moment.
“I remember crying for days. I wasn’t experienced and I wasn’t getting the support. One thing that my dad was honest about is that he stopped supporting me when I was 16 years old.
“With boxing, he just stopped looking after me and supporting me and stopped pushing me because he didn’t like the way that I was changing.
“As he says, I was becoming more independent and I wanted more for myself. And I just was like, what am I doing this for? It was like a penny drop moment.
‘I’m leaving home, I’m moving out’
“I was like, ‘I’m doing it for myself, I’m doing this shit for myself.’ I’m not dying, making weight, sweating out, not eating for days, and as a woman I lose my period.
“I’m not doing this for some other guy who couldn’t care less. I’m doing it for myself, I’m doing it for my future.
“I took that decision. And it started to get very toxic and very bad in the household. He kept saying, ‘Why can’t you be more like Daniel? You need to be like him.’
“I can’t be like him and I wouldn’t want to be like him. And that’s not disrespect, but we’re different people. It was a decision that I had to make, I spoke to my brothers and sisters about it.
“I was like, ‘Okay, I’m leaving home, I’m moving out. And they were like, ‘Okay, I want to come with you.’
“My younger brother and sister, they both moved out with me. So we left home and that’s what happened.
“My dad’s now saying that I saw the change in her. He says, he never liked female boxing. That’s absolute BS. And I just wanted to call that out.”
Caroline, 23, is 10-0 in her career with the WBC interim title to her name.
Daniel, 27, meanwhile defended his IBF belt against Joshua, 34, with the pair now in talks for a rematch.