Joe Joyce and Derek Chisora will headline at The O2 on Saturday, July 27, when the Juggernaut will likely be confronted by Warfare, stay on TNT Sports activities.
Joyce, 38, will battle Chisora, 40, in a battle of British heavyweight veterans. It’s a home collision that seems to have been on the desk for a while. Joyce (16-2, 15 KOs) has been calling out the identify of the boxer previously often known as Delboy since 2019.
Two-time world title challenger Chisora (34-13, 23) rebounded from his stoppage defeat to Tyson Fury in late 2022 with a choice victory over Gerald Washington in August of final yr at The O2. Names comparable to Carlos Takam, Dillian Whyte, Senad Gashi, Artur Szpilka, Oleksandr Usyk, Joseph Parker and Kubrat Pullev have featured on the Finchley man’s CV since 2018.
Joyce has additionally combined in sturdy firm, recording victories over Takam, Daniel Dubois and Joseph Parker earlier than coming off second greatest in back-to-back WBO Interim title fights towards the Chinese language large Zhilei Zhang.
The Putney man obtained his identify again within the win column in Birmingham again in March when he defeated Kash Ali by way of a tenth spherical KO.
Each fighters are striving to return to the buoyant prime finish of the world heavyweight division that’s at the moment dominating the panorama in battle sports activities.
“It is a correct old skool heavyweight battle that appears to have been a very long time within the making,” mentioned promoter Frank Warren. “I keep in mind it being talked about strongly even earlier than we teamed up with Joe and it has at all times struck me as a pure and apparent battle to make.
“Two prime London heavies combating it out for a spot again on the prime desk guarantees to ship a cracking scrap. The winner is true again in enterprise, with no actual place to go for the loser.”
The total undercard together with Dennis McCann, Henry Turner, Archie Sharp, Sean Noakes and Aadam Hamed plus extra will likely be introduced within the coming weeks.
Tickets for Joyce vs Chisora are on O2 Precedence presale from 5pm right now (Wednesday, 22 Could), Venue presale tomorrow (Thursday, 23 Could) and on normal sale at 5pm on Friday, 24 Could accessible from axs.com and ticketmaster.co.uk.
