Oleksandr Usyk V Daniel Dubois: Undisputed Heavyweight Championship – Live Updates

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The stakes could hardly beryllium higher. On Saturday nighttime astatine Wembley Stadium, Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will quadrate disconnected erstwhile again, this clip pinch each awesome heavyweight title connected nan statement and a crowd of 90,000 watching from nan stands.

It’s been astir 2 years since their first brushwood successful Wroclaw, wherever Usyk weathered a contentious debased rustle and stopped Dubois successful nan ninth round. That bout ended pinch much questions than answers. Was Dubois denied a adjacent changeable by referee Luis Pabon’s ruling? Or did Usyk simply prove, arsenic he has clip and again, that he’s 1 of nan sport’s astir complete fighters?

Since then, nan Ukrainian southpaw has only strengthened his case. Back-to-back wins complete Tyson Fury successful Saudi Arabia made him nan first undisputed world heavyweight champion successful astir a quarter-century. He concisely relinquished his IBF title to prosecute a rematch pinch Fury – a loop that yet made its measurement to Dubois – but connected Saturday he has nan chance to cod it erstwhile again and go a two-time undisputed champion.

Usyk has made a wont of dismantling British heavyweights, from Anthony Joshua to Derek Chisora to Fury, and arrives successful London unbeaten arsenic a pro, a cleanable 23-0 pinch 14 wins coming wrong nan distance. He’s heavier than ever, but still moves pinch nan grace of a erstwhile cruiserweight king and Olympic golden medallist.

Usyk and Dubois look connected astatine yesterday’s weigh-in. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Dubois, however, insists this clip will beryllium different. The 27-year-old Londoner is riding precocious disconnected 3 consecutive knockout wins, capped by a stunning stoppage of Joshua past September astatine this very stadium. He’s been rebuilt, rededicated and restructured nether nan ever-watchful oculus of his father, Stan Dubois, who remains nan designer of his career.

Still, questions linger. Can Dubois header pinch Usyk’s jab and angles? Can he adjacent nan region without getting picked apart? Or will Saturday people yet different masterclass from nan man who continues to outwit and outfight nan champion of Britain?

Lennox Lewis remains nan past British man to unify nan heavyweight division. If Dubois tin outpouring nan upset, he’ll do what Fury and Joshua could not and subordinate Lewis successful nan history books.

The main arena ringwalks are expected astir 9.45pm section time. Stick pinch america for afloat coverage, study and unrecorded round-by-round updates arsenic it happens.

Bryan will beryllium present shortly. In nan meantime here’s Donald McRae’s lookahead to tonight’s main event.