Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and challenger Tyson Fury will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, October twenty third, for his or her press convention to start advertising and marketing their rematch on December twenty first on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The press convention begins at midday ET/5:00 p.m. UK.
Former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) will get a second likelihood after dropping to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) by a 12-round break up choice earlier this 12 months on Might 18th in Riyadh. Some followers felt Fury deserved the win final time, so he’s being given one other shot.
If Fury loses this struggle, it would wreck followers’ curiosity in seeing him and Anthony Joshua struggle in 2025. They’ll nonetheless struggle, however it would have much less enchantment as a result of they each come into the competition having misplaced their final fights.
The one nice struggle on the Usyk vs. Fury 2 undercard if the match between former WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov and former WBC interim champ Serhii Bohachuk. That struggle is arguably solely attention-grabbing match on the undercard. The remainder is filer.
Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) misplaced his final struggle by a controversial 12-round majority choice to Vergil Ortiz Jr. on August tenth in Las Vegas. That was a struggle that numerous boxing followers had Bohachuk successful, however the Nevada judges gave it to the American, Vergil Jr, who regarded poor.
Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 KOs) misplaced his WBA 154-lb title to Terence Crawford by a detailed 12-round unanimous choice on August third in Los Angeles. He fought nicely however gave the struggle away to Crawford by not letting his fingers go within the final three rounds. Crawford outworked Madrimov. If Madrimov fights like that in opposition to Bohachuk, he’ll lose once more, however far worse as a result of this man throws numerous punches.
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