Tonight, IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) will tackle WBC champion Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) to attempt to gather the final belt to change into the undisputed #1 within the division.
Battle info:
Ringwalks for Fury-Usyk: Roughly 6:05 p.m. ET / 11:05 p.m. UK
Occasion Begin Time: 12:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. UK
Full Card: Beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET on DAZN PPV and ESPN PPV
Updates and outcomes shall be proven under of the motion:
Heavyweight contender Agit Kabayel (25-0, 17 KOs) dominated beforehand unbeaten Frank Sanchez (24-1, 17 KOs) in scoring seventh spherical physique shot knockout. Kabael, 31, knocked Sanchez down twice with physique pictures. He dropped with a left to the physique for the primary knockdown after which put him down once more with a stabbing left jab.
Kabayel was in charge of the struggle from the second spherical, profiting from Sanchez having a knee difficulty. He was sporting a knee brace, and he didn’t seem like he was in a position to sit down on his pictures the way in which he wanted to maintain Kabayel off. Referee Victor Loughlin stopped the struggle at 2:33 of spherical seven.
Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Moses Itauma (9-0, 7 KOs) knocked out Ilja Mezencev (25-4, 21 KOs) by a second-round stoppage. Itauma landed a phenomenal shot that put Mezencev down arduous in spherical two. Mezencev seemed in unhealthy form when he obtained again up, prompting referee Howard Foster to halt the bout. The time was on the 0:50 mark.
Itauma, 19, harm the Kazakhstan-born Mezencev within the first spherical with a proper hand late within the spherical. If there had been a bit extra time left within the spherical, Itauma would have completed him.
Light-weight Mark Chamberlain (16-0, 12 KOs) obliterated Joshua Wahab (23-2, 16 KOs), stopping him twice to attain a lightning-quick first-round knockout to win the vacant WBC silver 135-lb title.
The competition was halted by referee Lee Each on the 2:42 mark. Wahab by no means recovered from the primary knockdown and was dropped a second-time moments later by Chamberlain, who snowed him underneath with pictures.
Unbeaten cruiserweight Robin Sirwan Safar (17-0, 12 KOs) might have completed off Sergey Kovalev’s (35-5-1, 29 KOs) profession, profitable a ten-round unanimous resolution in a one-sided struggle.
Safar, 31, knocked Kovalev down arduous within the tenth spherical with a left hook adopted by a devasting proper hand. Kovalev beat the depend and made it out of the spherical to flee being stppped.
Safer, 31, managed a lot of the struggle along with his aggression, and energy pictures in opposition to the Kovalev. The decide’s scores had been 95-94, 99-90, and 97-92.
The 41-year-old Kovalev seemed his age tonight, exhibiting not one of the devasting energy that he had a decade in the past when he dominated the sunshine heavyweight division as a unified champion and was prevented.
Mild heavyweight Daniel Lapin (9-0, 4 KOs) made straightforward work of Octavio Pudivitr (9-2, 4 KOs), scoring a first-round knockout. within the first spherical. The southpaw Lapin hit Pudivitr with a proper jab, and he instantly backed off.
Lapin then completed Pudivitr off with a number of pictures, sending him to the canvas. Pudivitr’s left eye appeared to have been injured from the jab that Lapin hit him, and that was what led to him being stopped. The time of the stoppage was at 1:47 of the primary spherical.
Featherweight Isaac Lowe (25-2-3, 8 KOs) placed on a left hook clinic tonight, defeating Hasibullah Ahmadi (16-2, 5 KOs) in a ten-round one-sided contest within the first struggle of tonight’s card.
Lowe knocked Ahmadi with a superbly positioned left hook to the pinnacle within the eighth spherical. The rating was 97-92. Within the early rounds, Ahmadi fought effectively, touchdown a variety of pictures on the straightforward to hit Lowe, reddening his face.
Nonetheless, within the second half of the struggle, Lowe’s stress and left-hand energy proved an excessive amount of for Ahmadi, who pale shortly. The win for the 30-year-old Lowe was his fourth consecutive.
Full Card starting at 12:00 ET on DAZN PPV and ESPN PPV.
- Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk: Battle for the undisputed championship
- Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Briedis: The 2 former cruiserweight champions meet in a rematch for the vacant IBF title.
- Joe Cordina vs. Anthony Cacace: IBF tremendous featherweight title holder Cordina defends in opposition to Cacace.
- Frank Sanchez vs. Agit Kabayel: Unbeaten heavyweight contenders Sanchez and Kabayel meet in a struggle that would steal the present.
- Moses Itauma vs. Ilja Mezencev: Heavyweight prospect Itauma continues to develop with this showcase struggle.
- Mark Chamberlain vs Joshua Wahab
- Sergey Kovalev vs. Robin Sirwan Safar: Former unified gentle heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev resumes his profession.
In the principle occasion, WBC champ Fury might want to impose his dimension benefit over the grasp boxer IBF/WBA/WBO champion Usyk for him to remain on prime. It’s not a very good signal that Fury wanted two coaching camps to take off the load that he’d packed on over time.
