In boxing, the show must go on. Even though the brandisher of the biggest punch will not be appearing here on Saturday night. Daniel Dubois is indisposed, his glands more swollen than his bank account would have been had he taken to the stage against Joseph Parker in a second defence of his IBF world heavyweight title.

London’s successor to the fiefdoms of Anthony Joshua, who he demolished, and Tyson Fury, who retired first, is nicknamed Dynamite after his punch, that right-hander which was supposed to remove former champion Parker from his path to a fight with Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title.