Caroline Dubois on the challenge of a pro debut

Caroline Dubois has vowed to make the most of her enforced absence from the ring after her next fight date was unexpectedly postponed.

The Tokyo Olympian was due to box next Saturday (July 2), only for the show to be put back when illness ruled out Hughie Fury from the main event.

Dubois now considers the additional wait "a blessing in disguise".

"It's just given me more time now to get better, get stronger, get fitter, get faster, whatever. So then when I do turn up in the ring I'll be 100 per cent," she told Rob Tebbutt.

"I'm disappointed but this is boxing and especially professional boxing, this is what happens. One person pulls out the main card and the whole show's off and it's getting used to that experience."

Dubois has boxed twice this year, making her professional debut against Vaida Masiokaite in February.

She went the six-round distance then, a performance that left the Tokyo Olympian frustrated. The pressure is on in a first pro fight. By her second bout in March, Dubois had settled more when she stopped Martina Horgasz in just the first round.

"The first one I thought I rushed everything. I got in the ring, my amateur brain just switched on and, if I'm honest, I'd give that performance a 'C'. Like it was good and I got the victory, I won every round, every second. But it wasn't me, or what I wanted to do. I didn't practise that. I didn't do anything that I was practising and I was trying to do," Dubois said.

"But the second fight I was slowing the pace down, I was picking the shots better and that's what we want to do, keep moving forward from that performance."

Karriss Artingstall, one of Dubois' GB team-mates, has to go through that tricky transition herself when she fights for the first time as a