Daniel Dubois will soon be back in the ring, his promoter Frank Warren has announced.
Warren heads up promotional organisation Top Rank, and he had seen 23-year-old Dubois emerge as something of a knockout specialist and potential contender for a world heavyweight belt down the line.
However he faced experienced Joe Joyce last year and ended up taking a knee, a controversial decision for many, but one that came as he had a fractured orbital bone and suffered potential nerve damage at the hands of Joyce.
That represented his first professional defeat, and now Joyce is on course to meet Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk in a WBO eliminator to decide who will emerge as a mandatory challenger to the winner of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.
Writing for BoxingScene.com, Warren reviewed his current stable of fighters and said that Dubois was now ready to get back to business.
"Another I am eager to see back doing what he does best is Daniel Dubois," he wrote.
"Thankfully he has been given the all-clear to get back to work following the eye injury that curtailed his participation in the Joe Joyce fight and there is so much more to come from Daniel."
Warren believes that Dubois took the right decision and while the defeat knocked some momentum out of Dubois' ascent, he believes he will not ultimately suffer from the loss.
"Taking a loss will do him no harm in the long run and what it has done is give him such much needed experience," Warren claimed.
"You find out so much more about yourself and your inner strength in adversity than you do when your career is plain sailing.
"Injuries are part of sport and Daniel suffered that cruel twist of fate in a big fight against Joe that he was well in and could have gone either way until he took himself, rightly, out of further harm’s way. It was a mature decision for a young fighter to make.
"He is back in business now and we will be announcing his next date and opponent very soon."