Caroline Dubois may be living in Los Angeles, but do not speak to her about Californian glitz.“I don’t know if it’s just me or how my mindset is when it comes to camp, but I am an hour away from the beach and I’ve been once for a training day,” says the British world champion lightweight, speaking via a video call.“I’m about a half-hour away from Beverly Hills as well, but I’ve not seen that yet. I’ve been here six weeks and it is train, home to rest, back to the gym to train, home to rest again. I watch films, some boxing, read. That’s as exciting as it gets.”Dubois has good reason to be focused. On Saturday, she defends her WBC and WBO titles against American Amelia Moore on Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) card in Birmingham, England — her first fight since a surprise split from her long-time coach Shane McGuigan, who guided her from amateur standout to becoming a unified world champion with 13 wins and one draw. She is now trained by American Manny Robles, a switch that caused ripples of shock throughout women’s boxing.Why do it?“I’m not going to get into the reasons too much,” Dubois says. “I think the more important thing is that, one, the training has been so different. Sparring has been really high level. And everything that I’ve been wanting and I’ve been looking for, you know, I’ve been ticking those boxes.“People have been saying, ‘Usually people leave coaches after they’ve lost or after something bad happened.’ And I just think, ‘You know, I ain’t going to wait for that.’ If I feel like I need something, I’m going to go out there and get it. I don’t need to wait to mess up to make a decision that is already sitting in my head.“The most important thing is to continue to develop, not just as an athlete, but as a person. I feel like I’m doing that, I’m very happy.”Caroline Dubois has split from her former coach Shane McGuigan (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)Dubois’ split with McGuigan was all the more surprising given he had been a constant in her life during a period of personal turbulence. In 2024, Caroline, one of her brothers and one of her sisters (she comes from a family of 11 children) effectively split from the rest of their family after a breakdown in relations with their father, Stan (who also goes by the name Dave).Another of Dubois’ brothers, Daniel, is a heavyweight world champion in his own right, having also been schooled under Stan’s strict, boxing-focused lifestyle which Caroline has previously called “overbearing”. Daniel was also coached by McGuigan at the time, but he moved from the gym under his father’s instruction and Caroline stayed put. The siblings are not on speaking terms.