A brand new undisputed heavyweight champion of the world can be topped on Saturday, July 19 at Wembley Stadium, the house of English soccer, the place unified WBC, WBO and WBA World Champion, Oleksandr Usyk, and IBF world champion Daniel Dubois will struggle for all of the belts in a historic occasion on UK soil, stories britishboxingnews.co.uk.
The fighters will come face-to-face on the launch press convention at 2.00 p.m. right now, whereas tickets for the struggle will go on sale tomorrow. Beneath the sponsorship of Riyadh Season, Usyk and Dubois will now battle to unite all of the heavyweight titles for the second time in 14 months, with the earlier undisputed conflict having taken place in November 1999 when Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield.
For Oleksandr Usyk, 38, this struggle is an try and develop into the undisputed champion for the third time. The Ukrainian first gained this title in cruiserweight in 2018. Later, in Could 2024, Usyk subsequently entered into his unique undisputed match with WBC champion Tyson Fury in Could 2024 and was declared victor by way of a break up determination, earlier than repeating his success with unified honours at stake in December.
For Dubois, it’s a rematch of their first assembly in Wroclaw, Poland, in August 2023, the place his physique shot within the fifth spherical was deemed unlawful by the referee and Usyk was afforded over 4 minutes of restoration time. Deflated by the overrule of his knockdown and in the end stopped within the ninth, Dubois by no means agreed with the referee’s determination and has been pushing for a rematch ever since.
Since his Usyk reverse, Dubois, 27, has put collectively a treble of resounding victories by overcoming the beforehand undefeated Jarrell Miller and Filip Hrgovic, adopted by a Wembley destruction of former unified champion Anthony Joshua.
His IBF Interim title success over Hrgovic was later upgraded to full champion standing, along with his encounter with Joshua being his first defence of the title. A scheduled second defence towards former WBO world champion Joseph Parker in February was referred to as off at late discover on account of sickness.
