Heavyweight King Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury might be ringside this Saturday at Wembley Stadium in a scouting mission to look at IBF champion Daniel Dubois defend towards Anthony Joshua.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Fury and Joshua react to seeing their conqueror Usyk for the primary time since he beat them. Joshua would possibly discover it somewhat extra traumatic to be in Usyk’s presence as a result of he went nuts after his loss to the Ukrainian expertise two years in the past, in August 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
After the struggle, Joshua went into psychological meltdown mode, snatching Usyk’s belts, tossing them out of the ring, after which speaking nonsense after grabbing the microphone to talk to the gang. Joshua regarded wild-eyed like he was able to doing something.
Hopefully, Joshua doesn’t spot Usyk within the crowd as a result of he must be dialed in 100% on his struggle towards Dubois. If Joshua will get spooked by the presence of Usyk, it’d throw him off his recreation, inflicting him to underperform.
Whatever the consequence of the Joshua-Dubois struggle, Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has been promised a struggle towards Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) by His Excellency Turki Alalshikh. Usyk would face Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) subsequent for the undisputed heavyweight championship if each win their fights.
It will have been higher for the followers if the winner of the Joshua-Dubois struggle confronted the winner of the Fury-Usyk II conflict as a result of it will have been extra sporting. The best way it’s arrange, we may see Joshua and Fury again into their all-British struggle subsequent yr, coming off humiliating losses.
If that’s the circumstances we see, promoter Eddie Hearn might want to provide you with one other label for the struggle as a result of he’s saying that Fury vs. Joshua could be the largest struggle in boxing. It gained’t be like that if one or each are coming off losses.
On December twenty first, Usyk defends his WBA, WBC, and WBO titles towards Fury in a rematch in Riyadh. It’s a struggle that Fury must win to generate extra curiosity in a conflict between him and Joshua. Nonetheless, it’s not more likely to occur as a result of Usyk has obtained Fury’s quantity after beating him final Could.
