CLEVELAND – Daniel Dubois blended into the background Thursday, quietly watching as “the circus” Jake Paul predicted unfolded before the British heavyweight’s very eyes.

The spiraling spectacle – unsightly even by boxing’s lowbrow standards – was everything Dubois is not. The final press conference to promote Paul’s pay-per-view fight against former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley was loud, obnoxious and eventually out of control.

The event devolved into a melee after one of Paul’s team members got into an argument with Woodley’s mom as the press conference wound down. Dubois kept to himself, away from the skirmish that required police and security personnel to restore order.

While Thursday mostly was about Paul and Woodley, Dubois plans to make a loud, violent statement of his own Sunday night. London’s Dubois (16-1, 15 KOs) is scheduled to box Joe Cusumano (19-3, 17 KOs) in a 10-round bout Showtime will air as part of its five-fight pay-per-view telecast from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (8 p.m. EDT; $59.99).

Dubois will make his debut in the United States in the first fight of a multi-bout agreement between Showtime and Dubois’ promoter, Frank Warren.

“I’ve always boxed in England, and that’s where I started to build my name,” Dubois told BoxingScene.com. “But now, I feel like this is my chance to come out and show the Americans what I can do. It’s what I’ve always worked towards. It’s a good opportunity. I’m glad I’m on the show and I think it’s gonna be really good and turn out well, and maybe lead up to bigger and better things for me.”

The understated Dubois will fight for the second time since he suffered a 10th-round knockout defeat to countryman Joe Joyce last November 28 at Church House in London. The 23-year-old Dubois knocked out Romania’s Bogdan Dinu (20-3, 16 KOs) in the second round of his comeback bout June 5 in Telford, England.

“It was good to shake off the cobwebs and get rid of all the nerves and whatever,” Dubois said. “It was just all about coming back, being a new person, a new fighter and just shaking off the doubters and all the things I had in my head going on after the [Joyce] fight. After the [Dinu] fight, I saw the light. And we was in darkness, so we just needed to head toward the light, you know?”

London’s Dubois had difficulty dealing with Joyce’s jab in their highly anticipated domestic showdown nearly nine months ago.

With his left eye swollen shut, Dubois took a knee during the 10th round and declined to continue against Joyce (13-0, 12 KOs). Dubois was ahead on two of three scorecards entering that fateful 10th round (88-83, 86-85, 84-87).

Detractors criticized Dubois for not continuing, but he suffered a broken orbital bone around his left eye.

“There’s always gonna be doubters,” Dubois said. “You can’t please everyone in boxing. It’s always gonna be that way, with people saying whatever they think about you. The loss was for me more to reflect on myself and the team around me, and all the changes I needed to make to be a better fighter.”

The 6-feet-5, 240-pound Dubois is consistently listed as a 30-1 favorite to beat the 6-feet-4, 250-pound Cusumano, of Danville, Virginia.

“They’re gonna be in for a treat,” Dubois said in reference to American boxing fans. “My style, the way I fight, is seek and destroy.”

Dubois hopes a victory over Cusumano leads to a title fight against Trevor Bryan (21-0, 15 KOs), the WBA world champion. Dubois is the WBA’s number one-ranked heavyweight contender and won that sanctioning organization’s interim championship when he defeated Dinu.

The WBA eliminated all of its interim championship Wednesday, but Dubois is the mandatory challenger for Bryan’s belt.

“They’ve got that guy with the WBA title, Trevor Bryan,” Dubois said. “We’ve gotta take it off him. That could be next. But I’ll let Frank Warren sort that one out.”

Stephen Espinoza, Showtime’s president of sports and event programming, is looking forward to starting to showcase Dubois on Sunday night.

“We’ve been trying to get Dubois over here I’d say for over a year,” Espinoza explained. “And it just didn’t work out because of commitments over there and the Joyce fight. But I think he’s a really intriguing prospect. Great size, great power, great athleticism. The way I view the Joyce fight was it was really a freak injury. I mean, to me, it’s no different than if he had sprained an ankle or something like that. You break an eye socket, yeah, the fight’s over. Yes, once in a while, depending on the break, you can go through it. But if he can’t see, it’d be stupid for him to put his sight at risk. So, I don’t even look at that as a loss. I think it was a learning experience.

“I don’t think there’s any of the shine off of him. I think he is arguably the brightest young prospect, at his level, in the heavyweight division. There are brand-new guys and other guys, but on his tier, I’m really interested to see what he can do. And he’s so young on top of it. He’s 23, just learning. He’s gonna mature, become more confident, become more comfortable with press. But I like him a lot. He’s got a lot of really good qualities.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.