PRIOR to his fight against Joe Joyce at the York Hall in London last weekend, Daniel Dubois was being touted as a future heavyweight world champion by the boxing cognoscenti. 

Current and former elite fighters and world champions, mainstream pundits, promoters — all were joined in ironclad consensus when it came to the raw ability and wondrous potential of the 23-year-old Londoner.

Now, after the fight, which Joyce won after Dubois took a knee in the 10th round to signal that he’d had enough, the very same boxing cognoscenti is cohered around a markedly different consensus on Daniel Dubois.