Here’s the lineup for Saturday’s heavyweight championship card in the SSE Arena, Wembley, England on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and Ireland and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories on its just-launched Global platform.
Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs) defends his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight world titles against mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev (28-1, 14 KOs).
Unbeaten cruiserweight Lawrence Okolie (14-0, 11 KOs) will now take on undefeated late sub Nikodem Jezewski (19-0-1, 9 KOs). Okolie was originally slated to face Krzysztof Glowacki for the vacant WBO world title.
Heavyweight Hughie Fury (24-3, 14 KOs) battles Mariusz Wach (36-6, 19 KOs) in a ten rounder.
Heavyweights Martin Bakole (15-1, 12 KOs) and Sergey Kuzmin (15-1, 11 KOs) fight for the vacant WBC International title.
Super welterweight Macaulay McGowan (14-1-1, 3 KOs) will now face Kieron Conway (15-1-1, 3 KOs), after his original opponent Souleymane Cissokho was forced to pull out of their ten-rounder.
Welterweight Florian Marku (7-0, 5 KOs) has an eight round contest with Alex Fearon (9-2)
Super bantamweight Qais Ashfaq (8-1, 3 KOs) meets Ashley Lane (14-9-2, 1 KO)
I believe Anthony Joshua learned a lot from his loss to Ruiz, and he looked much better in the rematch, so I hope AJ wins so we can hopefully get a Tyson Fury Anthony Joshua fight in the first half of 2021…
Hope so Arturo
I have a bad feeling about this match
He looked better? He ran and wouldnt fight! BORING AF.
Another hopeless chump that AJ faces!! Champion my arse! Fight Ortiz, Wilder, Fury….. any of those!!! So sick of this MFer…..
Joshua has beaten whyte, Parker, klitschko, ruiz, takam, povetkin. That is the best rusume of any active heavyweight by far.
Ben, you’re not wrong about the resume, but it totally shows how bad this Division is. His best name by far was most certainly over the hill and then there is Povetkin who at his best was a solid top 10 contender (I think he even held a paper title at one point), but was likely well past that form by the time AJ beat him. And he still exposed Whyte as a pretender.
Parker and Ruiz are decent wins, but AJ running around an overweight version of Ruiz in the rematch definitely doesn’t make me think he’s a great in the making. As for Parker…the fight was close and boring and despite having all the tools Parker seems to lack something (killer instinct?)
Honestly, beyond Fury and Wilder, we need the next crop to step up. I’d accept a win over Ortiz as something, but Wilder has been there and done that twice, so what’s the point.
Would love to see Fury Vs Joshua but I almost ALWAYS root for the underdog. I’m hoping Pulev knocks AJ out.
Me too!! Go pulev!!
Pulev is good but not great at anything. I dont see him having what it takes to win. I like upsets in all fights but can’t see it here.