Shane McGuigan, head trainer for heavyweight Daniel Dubois, believes the boxer's recent performance may motivate other boxers in the weight class to fight him.

Earlier this month at Tottenham Stadium in London, Dubois picked up a dramatic third round stoppage over Kevin Lerena.

In the first round, Lerena landed a big shot to the top of Dubois' head, which sent him down. Dubois suffered a knee injury during the knockdown, which created two more knockdowns in the same round - as Dubois was having trouble putting weight on his leg and seemed to voluntarily go down twice without being hit.

The fight appeared to be all but over. But, Dubois seemed to recover by the second round.

In the third, he began to put his punches together and dropped Lerena. Dubois would then jump on Lerena with a barrage of big shots to force the stoppage.

"He got caught early and the first shot was a good one. Normally you get caught with a few jabs and you kind of settle your way into the power and the fight," Dubois' trainer Shane McGuigan told Sky Sports. "He got caught on the top of the head and his legs went. He basically hyper-extended his knee.

"The next two knockdowns weren't knockdowns. He took a knee because he knew something wasn't right. So he did the right thing. It ended up being a 10-6 round, so we were three rounds down after the first round with a guy with a bad knee and I had a decision to make.

"[He was] not disorientated at all because he knew exactly what shot it was. If you look at the footage, he says, 'I don't know what happened.' [He meant] I don't know what happened to my knee. The next round I said just get on your jab. Just move around. Just get your foot underneath you and he did that. Then in round three he walked him onto a peach of a right hand and stopped him. He regrouped and did really well and showed a lot of mettle. Because people had questioned his mental strength."

Dubois holds the WBA's "regular" title at the weight - which puts him in line at some point to challenge unified champion Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the WBA's super title at the weight.

"No one's ever been queuing up to fight Daniel. Especially the big names because they think, 'I'm going to walk into heavy shots there and he's got a puncher's chance and what's there really to gain from it?' He's got the WBA 'regular' title. He's also showed in their eyes a bit of weakness in that last fight," McGuigan said.

"Hopefully they'll step forward.  I think Dillian Whyte's perfect. He's just come off a win. Apparently, he doesn't want the AJ fight at the moment. I don't know if AJ's going to be ready in that timeframe. That would be great for us."