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David Haye believes that Dereck Chisora’s chances of beating Oleksandr Usyk have significantly risen due to the delay. The fight, originally scheduled for May, will go ahead on October 31 behind closed doors somewhere in the UK. And Haye, Chisora’s manager and a former opponent, says the Londoner has been working hard improving his ability against southpaws all summer.
The hopes of crowds returning to boxing in the UK any time soon have been dealt a serious blow after the Government put back plans to allow fans attend from next month. The Government had earmarked October 1 as the date to start allowing fans back after a series of pilot schemes with limited audiences. But with the Covid-19 infection rate on the rise again, plans for a phased return of fans have been paused.
Eddie Hearn says he wants a fight between Joshua Buatsi and Anthony Yarde to take place next year and believes it doesn’t need a world title to be attached to make it a big fight. A Buatsi vs. Yarde fight was one of the stand-outs of a list sent to Hearn by Frank Warren of potential match-ups between the camps of the rival promoters.
Eddie Hearn says he is hoping and praying that Anthony Joshua’s delayed world heavyweight title defence against Kubrat Pulev will go ahead in front of a packed O2 Arena in London on December 12, but says that Joshua, the WBA, IBO, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion, will box this year ahead of a likely fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury next year.
The rematch between Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte will take place on November 21, Eddie Hearn has announced. The fight that will be screened on Sky Box Office in the UK and DAZN in the United States was the headliner from four shows that Hearn announced would by on Sky in the UK.
A rematch between Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte looks set to go ahead in late November after their first fight returned good pay-per-view returns, although it is far from clear where the fight will take place.
Anthony Yarde became the first man to stop Dec Spelman, as a string of heavy right hands brought an end to their light-heavyweight ten-rounder at York Hall, in East London, in the sixth round and proved a point to his rival Lyndon Arthur.
Mark Heffron and Denzel Bentley battled their way to a unanimous draw in their ten-round British middleweight title eliminator at York Hall in East London. Bentley scored the only knockdown, in the second round, but it was Heffron who spent most of the fight coming forward, while Bentley moved and aimed to pick him off.
Ekow Essuman, the English welterweight champion, extended his unbeaten record with a wide unanimous points decision over France’s Cedrick Peynaud on the Queensberry’s behind closed-doors show at York Hall, East London.
Anthony Yarde says he has been inspired by seeing how Michael Jordan overcame the death of his father in dealing with his own tragedy after both his father and grandmother died from COVID-19.