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The World Boxing Organisation (WBO) on Thursday ordered reigning world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk to commence negotiations for a mandatory title defence against Joseph Parker, Afrosport reports. Usyk and Parker have 30 days to finalise an agreement for the mandatory defence, or the WBO will order purse bid proceedings. The 38-year-old Ukrainian is the reigning WBC and WBA (Super) heavyweight champion, clinching the titles following back-to-back...

Ngannou vs Anthony Joshua: Another battle of Cameroon vs Nigeria?

by Afrosport

7 March 2024

Cameroon and Nigeria will rekindle rivalry again for the third time in 2024 when Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou square-off in a 10-round heavyweight boxing fight. The fight in the Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh would be Ngannou's second professional boxing fight after making his debut against Tyson Fury in October 2023. Joshua, on the other hand, is a former unified WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight...

Anthony Joshua sounds fight warning to Franklin

by Ayomide Sotubo

30 March 2023

British boxer Anthony Joshua has remarked that Saturday is "the worst time" for Jermaine Franklin to fight him and described the current heavyweight terrain as shambles. The former IBF, WBA and WBO champion will face Franklin at the O2 Arena in London where he made his professional debut in 2013. Despite a record of three loses in five bouts, Joshua is bullish on his chances of...

Fury and Usyk agree to unification fight

by Ibikunle Salako

21 December 2022

Tyson Fury and Oleksander Usyk have agreed to fight each other next in a heavyweight unification bout. The two fighters currently share all four major heavyweight world titles between them, and the highly anticipated fight would decide the undisputed heavyweight world champion. Top-rank promoter Bob Arum revealed that both Fury - the WBC champion - and Usyk - the unified WBO, WBA, and IBF heavyweight champion...

Usyk ordered to fight Dubois by WBA

by Ibikunle Salako

13 December 2022

The World Boxing Association has called for Oleksandr Usyk to battle British boxer Daniel Dubois in a mandatory world heavyweight title defence. Usyk, the current WBA "super", WBO, and IBF champion following back-to-back victories over Anthony Joshua has his eye on a unifying bout against current WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Dubois, who retained his WBA "regular" title with a third-round stoppage win over Kevin Lerena...

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