Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois Weigh In forward of their IBF Heavyweight Title combat tomorrow evening.
20 September 2024
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Probably the most attended all-British heavyweight title combat in historical past is now one sleep away.
Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua arrived able to combat as they hit the scales on Friday. London’s Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) weighed a career-heaviest 248.6 kilos, whereas Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) checked in at 252.5 kilos.
Their scheduled 12-round IBF heavyweight title combat headlines a DAZN Pay-Per-View occasion this Saturday. The UK launch of Riyadh Season is anticipated to draw a Wembley document 96,000 followers in attendance. Hundreds of followers flocked to Friday’s weigh-in at London’s Trafalger Sq..
Dubois arrived for his first title protection lighter than his win that ultimately led to this standing. He surpassed his profession excessive weight of 245.8 kilos in his June 1 technical knockout win over Filip Hrgovic in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The feat noticed Dubois declare an interim model of the IBF heavyweight title.
An improve got here later within the month when RING champion Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) vacated the total IBF belt. The unbeaten Ukrainian nonetheless holds the WBC, WBA and WBO belts. Nevertheless, he agreed to permit Dubois and Joshua to have a correct title combat for Riyadh Season’s UK debut.
Usyk holds a knockout win over Dubois and two resolution victories over Joshua.
Saturday marks Joshua’s first title combat since his repeat loss to Usyk in Aug. 2022. The hulking Brit noticed his second unified title reign finish in a Sept. 2021 unanimous resolution defeat to Usyk in North London.
4 wins have adopted for Joshua, together with his first-round knockout of former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Riyadh. Joshua was roughly the identical weight as was the case on Friday.
Joshua received his first main title—the IBF belt—in an April 2016 second-round knockout of then-unbeaten Charles Martin.
Six defenses adopted, together with victories over Wladimir Klitschko and Joseph Parker so as to add the WBA and WBO titles. His unbeaten run resulted in his June 2019 U.S. debut when he was knocked out by Andy Ruiz. Joshua avenged the defeat six month later in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.
Joshua is rated No. 2 at heavyweight by The Ring; Dubois is No. 6.
Under are the weights for the remainder of the undercard.
Tyler Denny (19-2-3, 1 KO; No. 10 at 160 by The Ring, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, 159.9 kilos
Hamzah Sheeraz (20-0, 13 KOs; No. 3 at 160 by The Ring), Ilford, Essex, 159.6 kilos
12 rounds, middleweight
Joshua Buatsi (18-0, 13 KOs; No. 4 at 175), Croydon, London, 174.7 kilos
Willy Hutchinson (18-1, 13 KOs; No. 9 at 175), Carstairs, Scotland, 174.9 kilos
12 rounds, interim WBO gentle heavyweight title
Anthony Cacace (22-1, 8 KOs; No. 5 at 130), Belfast, N. Eire, 129.8 kilos
Josh Warrington (31-3-1, 8 KOs; No. 10 at 126), Leeds, Yorkshire, 129.5 kilos
12 rounds, junior light-weight (Cacace’s IBF title not at stake)
Josh Kelly (15-1-1, 8 KOs), Sunderland, Tyne and Put on, 159.1 kilos
Ishmael Davis (13-0, 6 KOs), Leeds, 159.3 kilos
12 rounds, middleweight
Mark Chamberlain (16-0, 12 KOs; No. 9 at 135), Portsmouth, Hampshire, 139.4 kilos
Josh Padley (14-0, 4 KOs), Armthorpe, Yorkshire, 139.6 kilos
10 rounds, junior welterweight
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