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Daniel Dubois isn’t trying to make his upcoming job any more complicated than it is. The 25-year-old heavyweight contender from London will take a gargantuan step up in competition when he faces IBF, WBA, WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk on Aug. 26 at Wroclaw Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland.
Promoter Alexander Krassyuk hasn’t given up hope trying to set up a fight between his charge, Oleksandr Usyk, and the mercurial Tyson Fury. At the same time Krassyuk has a feeling no amount of moolah will convince Fury to get in the same ring with Usyk.
Terence Crawford understands that Errol Spence Jr. had to backpedal on some of his demands at the negotiating table in order for their undisputed welterweight fight to become a reality.
An intriguing heavyweight bout could possibly have an encore. For most of the past year former heavyweight titlists Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua have been rumored to be finalizing plans to meet in the ring for a high-profile fight in Saudi Arabia.
Trainer Malik Scott doesn’t really see a conceivable route for Daniel Dubois to pull off the upset against Oleksandr Usyk. Dubois, the 25-year-old heavyweight contender from London, will face the toughest opponent of his career, when he challenges Ukraine’s Usyk this Saturday at Wroclaw Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland, for Usyk’s WBO, WBA, IBO, and IBF titles.
Promoter Frank Warren is fully in favor of the efforts by Britain’s governing bodies to get a handle on the Conor Benn drug scandal. And if his fellow denizens of the boxing world are worth any salt, says Warren, they should feel the same way as well.
Boxxer head Ben Shalom sounds pretty fed up with Eddie Hearn—even if he won’t refer to the Matchroom boss by name. In a recent interview, Shalom, the 27-year-old British promoter whose company has an exclusive arrangement with Sky,
Promoter Eddie Hearn says Conor Benn will return to the ring next month, despite the fact that the embattled welterweight has another legal battle brewing on the horizon. Benn, the 26-year-old native of England, has been under fire since he tested positive two separate times last year for the
Canelo Alvarez apparently has few regrets about cutting ties with his former promoter, Oscar De La Hoya. In a recent interview, the undisputed 168-pound champion from Mexico reflected on his experience being promoted by De La Hoya, the Hall of Fame fighter and founder of Golden Boy Promotions, and much of Alvarez’s retelling, not surprisingly, was negative.
Tyson Fury has some serious reservations about the prospect of seeing himself in the ring against the likes of Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. The WBC titlist from Manchester, England, offered a dim prognosis of those compelling heavyweight matchups in a recent interview.