The World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) ordered the referred to as the Purse bid between heavyweight tremendous champion Oleksandr Usyk and his necessary challenger Daniel Dubois, which is able to happen on Could 25 in Houston, Texas.
The bout is a part of the pioneering physique’s World Championship Discount Plan and pits the tremendous champion in opposition to the champion to outline a single monarch within the class.
The Championships Committee despatched the communication to the events this Monday, Could 15, with all the main points of the bidding. The minimal quantity to acquire the rights to the combat can be 1,000,000.00 whereas the distribution can be 75% for Usyk and 25% for Dubois.
The combat between Usyk and Dubois had been ordered since final December 12, however within the course of a time period was granted for Usyk to barter the unification combat with Tyson Fury; nevertheless, that combat couldn’t be agreed on account of variations between the groups.
Dubois suffered the knee damage in his most up-to-date combat on December 3 in opposition to Kevin Larena. Regardless of profitable the combat, he left the bout injured and with issue to stroll.
The WBA despatched a request for a well being report back to Dubois and his group, which was acquired on March 30. The report, signed by London-based doctor James Witthicase, says Dubois is able to do any bodily exercise, run, carry weight and feels no ache in his knee.
The deadline to barter expired final Could 2, so the committee determined to ship the combat to purse bid below all of the statutes of the physique.
