Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will stage Britain’s first undisputed heavyweight title fight on 19 July at Wembley Stadium. Promoters Queensberry and Ready To Fight confirmed the date after Riyadh Season bankrolled a deal that reunites the IBF belt Dubois now owns with Usyk’s WBA, WBC and WBO straps.
Their rematch arrives two years after the contentious night in Wroclaw when Dubois dropped Usyk with a fifth-round body shot that referee Luis Pabón ruled low; Usyk recovered and stopped the Londoner in nine. Since that defeat Dubois has transformed his profile, halting Jarrell Miller in ten, breaking Filip Hrgovic in eight to lift the vacant IBF title, and flooring Anthony Joshua four times before a fifth-round knockout in front of 96,000 at Wembley last September.
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Usyk has remained perfect, outboxing and then conclusively beating Tyson Fury twice - points in May 2024, then a wider unanimous verdict in the December rematch - to become the first four-belt heavyweight champion and the consensus pound-for-pound No 1. He relinquished the IBF title to honour the second Fury bout, joking this week, “Thank you, Daniel, for guarding my belt - now I want it back.”
Dubois calls the return “unfinished business,” insisting the belt-line punch should have ended their first encounter: “I’m a superior, more dangerous fighter now, and I get to prove it at the national stadium in my city.”
The undercard, still under construction, is likely to feature another Queensberry-Matchroom collaboration after the success of Riyadh Season’s cross-promotion model. For now, the storyline sells itself: a 38-year-old master boxer seeking to complete a British clean-sweep, and a 27-year-old puncher convinced he was robbed of glory once and won’t let history repeat itself.
Fight card:
▪️Oleksandr Usyk vs. Daniel Dubois, 12 rounds, for Usyk’s IBF, IBO, WBC, and WBO world heavyweight titles
