A new undisputed heavyweight champion of the world will be crowned on Saturday 19 July at Wembley Stadium, the home of English football, where unified WBC, WBO and WBA world champion Oleksandr Usyk and IBF world champion Daniel Dubois will fight for all the belts in a historic event on UK soil.
Promoted by Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren and Queensberry, along with Usyk’s promotional company Ready to Fight, and sponsored by Riyadh Season, Usyk and Dubois will battle to unite all the heavyweight titles for the second time in 14 months, with the previous undisputed clash having taken place in November 1999 when Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield.
Usyk vs Dubois is a rematch of the first meeting in Wroclaw, Poland in August 2023, where a successful defence of his titles by Usyk was marred by controversy. Dubois planted Usyk into the Stadion Wroclaw canvas with a bludgeoning shot to the body in the fifth round. However, the beltline blow was deemed illegal by the referee and the champion was afforded over four minutes of recovery time. Dubois, visibly deflated by the overrule of his knockdown, then ran out of steam and ultimately stopped in the ninth.