‘A messed-up situation’ – world champion Dubois on family riftImage source, ReutersImage caption, WBC champion Caroline Dubois has won 12 pro fights and drawn one – she faces WBO belt holder Terri Harper in London on SundayByKal SajadBBC Sport boxing journalistPublished13 minutes agoFamily has always been central to Caroline Dubois’ boxing story.But two years ago, the now WBC lightweight champion – sister to former heavyweight world champion Daniel – left the family home where she was raised. A row with her father, Stan Dubois (who also goes by the name Dave) under whose strict, high-pressure boxing regime both siblings grew up, was the catalyst.
Caroline walked away but continued training under Shane McGuigan, while Daniel went his own way. Some of her younger siblings went with her, carving out a new family dynamic in the process.
“It’s such a messed-up situation. It’s just so complex,” Caroline, 25, says of the estranged relationship.
Speaking to BBC Sport from the McGuigan gym in Leyton, east London, Caroline – with her younger sister Alicia sitting beside her – says she hopes to reconcile with Daniel and suspects “time” will be the healer.
But it is a different story with her father.
“When you separate yourself from a person who can be overbearing, where you’re not allowed to have an opinion and not allowed to have a voice, and then you have that freedom, you find what you like and what you dislike,” she says.
“You find what you want to be around, what type of people you want to be with, and what type of people you don’t want to be around.”
