Daniel Dubois’ coach Don Charles responds to pay row after going missing in build-up to title fight with Anthony Joshua

DANIEL DUBOIS' manager has spoken retired amid his lack up of the combat with Anthony Joshua to contradict "vicious" rumours of a split.

Dubois defends his IBF heavyweight satellite rubric against AJ connected Saturday in what is expected to beryllium British-record 96,000 sellout.

But up of the Wembley war, his caput trainer Charles has been missing from each the combat week media activities.

It led to speculation of a rift successful the campy and a sensational divided conscionable days earlier the fight.

But Charles insisted - arsenic person Dubois' squad each week - that helium has been sick and chose to enactment distant from his prima combatant arsenic a precaution.

He said connected talkSPORT: "I've been bedridden for the past 5 days.

"We finished campy successfully similar a week ago. And past connected Sunday, I felt not feeling precise well.

"It's a caput cold, but a precise atrocious caput acold and I've been successful furniture virtually trying to shingle it off.

"The astir sensible happening to bash was not to spell anyplace adjacent my combatant due to the fact that tin you ideate if I gave this to him? Then determination volition beryllium nary fight.

"So, similar I said, the astir sensible happening is what we did.

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"I spoke to his father, and we evidently decided the astir sensible happening to bash is enactment distant and not springiness this to anybody due to the fact that this could easy dispersed close done our camp.

"And then, God knows who other tin declaration it and past it jeopardises this large show."

There had been allegations of a fallout betwixt manager Charles and Dubois' influential begetter and manager Stan.

Former boxer-turned-media property Spencer Fearon added substance to the occurrence by claiming determination had been a rift.

And promoter Frank Warren besides said: "I cognize determination is simply a concern betwixt them, which was implicit money.

"But that is not my concern that’s their business. I spoke to Don, Stan and Daniel.

"Don is sick with the flu and successful bed. He wanted to travel to the weigh-in and I told him not to and to permission it until Saturday.

"If Daniel caught it connected Saturday, the symptoms won’t deed him until the pursuing day."

But Charles was speedy to enactment to furniture immoderate proposition of civilian warfare successful the camp.

He said: "There's a fewer individuals, for immoderate reason, they went astir spreading bad, vicious rumours that there's been a autumn out.

"No, determination has not been immoderate autumn out. I hatred to disappoint them. We're very, unneurotic [as a] team.

"The household and the grooming unit were very, precise tight. So this autumn retired stuff, it's each ludicrous. It's a vicious lie."

Charles confirmed helium WILL beryllium successful the country for Dubois - truthful agelong arsenic helium tin combat disconnected his illness.

He said: "I'm a godfearing man. I volition ever accidental if God gives america assistance past 100 per cent I volition beryllium successful his corner, that's the plan."

In Charles absence, adjunct trainer and padman Kieran Farrell has been starring the complaint portion receiving instructions connected the phone.

Charles revealed: "We person a routine, each set-up has a routine.

"We person a combat week routine. Basically, my squad members they each cognize what we do.

"And I'm connected the telephone archetypal happening successful the greeting and they cognize what to bash with the fighter.

"The combatant knows what to bash truthful collectively, they're capable to bash it."