The World Boxing Association (WBA) ordered a purse bid between heavyweight super champion Oleksandr Usyk and his mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois, which will take place on May 25 in Houston, Texas. The minimum bid to obtain the rights to the fight will be $1,000,000.00 and the split will be 75% for Usyk and 25% for Dubois.
The bout is part of the WBA’s World Championship Reduction Plan and pits the super champion against the regular champion to define a single monarch in the category.
Toying time for Usyk with a wide UD victory
Agree.
Apparently Frank Warren and Usyk’s people just can’t agree on anything, they also handle Tyson Fury. Dubois has a puncher’s chance but until/unless that thing lands, he’ll be losing rounds. Still, he’s just 25 which is a baby for a heavyweight, so it might be good experience for him.
just what nobody wants to see.
Exactly.
I thought Usyk was going to fight Wilder instead.
He is next in line according to WBA rankings, if no agreement is reached for Usyk vs Dubois. Honestly I like more Wilder vs Usyk instead
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would be much better
They’re having a purse bid for a fight that is a week away? A Ukrainian fighting a Brit in Texas? I’ll believe it when I see it.
The purse bid is a week away, not the fight.
My thoughts exactly, date must be wrong?
Usyk will beat Dubois like a red-headed stepchild.
Time for Usyk to drop the WBA strap in the trash.
If he does that, there’s no point in fighting Fury for the undisputed title. Usyk’s the one who cares about these worthless belts, not Fury. Usyk was gifted an immediate shot by the WBO because of a loophole in their rules. He’s fought Joshua twice. He’ll have to face all three of his mandatories (as undeserving as they all are; DuBois, Zhang, and Hrgovic) if he wants to keep his bargaining chips for a Fury fight.
Fury will most likely dump the WBC belt since Wilder is their mandatory (though I’m not convinced Wilder is interested in ever fighting again at all, let alone a fourth Fury fight that no one in the world wants to see) or the WBC will mandate a Ruiz-Wilder eliminator for the WBC’s interim belt.
This will be about as one sided as it gets, easy win for the gap toothed wonder. Juggernaut KO’d Dubois, big bang KO’d juggernaut, why not big bang vs Dubois
The never ending reduction plan.
One sided, long 12 round with little action win for uzik!