By Charles Brun: IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will defend towards secondary WBA champ Daniel Dubois subsequent month on August twenty sixth on TNT Sports activities PPV on the Wroclaw Stadium in Poland.
It’s unclear what TNT Sports activities can be seeking to get when it comes to PPV butyrate for the Usyk-Dubois, however on can’t think about that it’ll be excessive.
Some Brits will wish to see the match-up as a result of it’ll be attention-grabbing for them to look at how the painfully gradual however highly effective Dubois offers with the motion, velocity & exact punching from the extra expert Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs).
We’ll see if this struggle goes down subsequent month, because it’s not formally introduced. If the large 6’5″ Dubois wins, it’ll make it straightforward for his promoters at Queensberry to arrange the undisputed championship struggle with WBC champion Tyson Fury.
One can think about the Saudis received’t be eager to make a struggle between Fury & Dubois as a part of their Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder card in Saudi Arabia later this 12 months in December.
The Saudis need Usyk and Fury, however that’s nonetheless not a on condition that struggle will occur. It’ll come down as to if Fury is open to negotiating.
Inserting the Usyk-Dubois struggle on pay-per-view is an attention-grabbing resolution by the organizers of the occasion, however that’s a part of TNT Sports activities opening up within the UK. It would promote a couple of buys within the UK, however in all probability not a lot until the value is low.
It will be an insane concept to place Usyk vs. Dubois on TNT Sports activities PPV within the U.S. as a result of People wouldn’t be all for that prepare wreck-level struggle.
Daniel Dubois’ final seven opponents:
– Kevin Lerena– Trevor Bryan– Joe Cusumano– Bogdan Dinu– Joe Joyce – *TKO 11 loss– Kyotaro Fujimoto-– Ricardo Snijders
In Dubois’s struggle towards former cruiserweight Kevin Lerena, he was repeatedly dropped within the first spherical, hitting the deck thrice. Many boxing followers felt that the referee Howard Foster bent over backward by permitting Dubois to remain in there with out stopping the competition as a result of he suffered a knee harm.
What was unusual about that struggle is Lerena stopped punching utterly starting within the second spherical, permitting Dubois to return again to attain a knockout within the third.
Dubois has already been stopped by Joe Joyce, and he got here near being knocked out by his final opponent, former cruiserweight Kevin Lerena final December.
The one motive Dubois is being given the chance to struggle Usyk is he received the secondary WBA title final 12 months by stopping Trevor Bryan within the fourth spherical.
The World Boxing Affiliation has two belts at heavyweight, with the easy-to-hit chinny Dubois holding the much less prestigious model.
Usyk has to get Dubois (19-1, 18 KOs) out of the best way to maneuver on and struggle on the Saudi card in December or January. He nonetheless hopes to face WBC champion Tyson Fury on the Saudi card, however that continues to be to be seen.
Given Fury’s poor monitor file together with his earlier failed negotiations with Usyk and Anthony Joshua, it’s predictable that we received’t see an Usyk-Fury struggle anytime quickly.
Usyk has been out of the ring since final 12 months when he beat Anthony Joshua in a rematch by a twelve spherical cut up resolution.
The 2012 Olympic gold medalist Usyk tried to place a struggle along with Fury not too long ago, but it surely fell aside over the rematch clause purse cut up. Many boxing followers imagine Fury merely didn’t fancy the struggle, so he made issues troublesome for Usyk to the place he threw up his arms and walked away.
Fury, 34, is now anticipated to struggle former UFC champion Francis Ngannou in an exhibition boxing match with no knockdown or knockout rule.
After that dud royally bombs on the field workplace, Fury can be in a weakened place to barter a struggle with Usyk, which ought to assist get the match made.
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