{"id":28712,"date":"2025-04-17T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/usyk-vs-dubois-daniel-dubois-in-talks-to-fight-oleksandr-usyk-at-wembley-in-july\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:31:27","slug":"usyk-vs-dubois-daniel-dubois-in-talks-to-fight-oleksandr-usyk-at-wembley-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/usyk-vs-dubois-daniel-dubois-in-talks-to-fight-oleksandr-usyk-at-wembley-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk vs Dubois: Daniel Dubois in talks to fight Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Daniel Dubois and Oleksandr Usyk are in talks to fight at Wembley Stadium on 12 July.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rival heavyweight champions hold all four major world titles between them, with Dubois the IBF champion and Usyk the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC belt holder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Usyk, 38, is undefeated in 23 fights and has a win over Dubois, stopping him in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/66630750\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">August 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their rematch would be for the undisputed heavyweight title as well as offer 27-year-old Dubois the chance of revenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While talks are ongoing between both camps, no contracts have been signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubois has won three fights since his defeat by Usyk, securing a knockout in each of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the Londoner cannot reach terms with Usyk, he will be ordered by the IBF to face 49-fight veteran Derek Chisora who the IBF has as its number one contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The projected date in July comes in the middle of a busy period in sport with Katie Taylor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c1lpeqd67dvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">trilogy fight<\/a> against Amanda Serrano on 11 July in New York, the final weekend of Wimbledon on 12 and 13 July and the Women&#8217;s Euro 2025 also under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Usyk is keen to fight for the undisputed title once more before he retires after he was forced to vacate the IBF belt before his rematch with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0kvpe54ky5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tyson Fury last December.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ukrainian, who was also undisputed champion at cruiserweight, has suggested he will retire after two more fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubois was due to defend his IBF belt against Joseph Parker in February, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cddy432vnn1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">illness caused him to withdraw<\/a> from the contest in fight week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Usyk&#8217;s most recent fight was his second win over Fury, when he confirmed himself as the number one heavyweight in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No British fighter has held the undisputed heavyweight title in the four-belt era and the last Briton to be undisputed heavyweight champion was Lennox Lewis in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c787myx5km8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Dubois and Oleksandr Usyk are in talks to fight at Wembley Stadium on 12 July. The rival heavyweight champions hold all four major world titles between them, with Dubois the IBF champion and Usyk the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC belt holder. Usyk, 38, is undefeated in 23 fights and has a win over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28714,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions\/28714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}