Oleksandr Usyk against Daniel Dubois. Heavy weighting world championship for all recognized titles. July 12th. Wembley stadium. Actually, the boxing world is only waiting for the official communiqué that officials official. A world association, meanwhile, is reminiscent of his duties.
The IBF has ordered its heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois to defend the red-gold belt against compulsory challengers Dereck Chisora. The association confirmed this to the boxing portal “Boxingscene.com”.
The fact that Chisora operates as a compulsory challenger at the IBF may confidently consider the officials of the officials typical of the box. The 41-year-old actually “only” ranked in the ranking, first place is vacant.
Chisora also did not contest a commercially available “Final Eliminator” – a World Cup excretion – which is usually necessary to take the position of the compulsory challenger.
A real stumbling block should not be Chisora and the IBF on the way to the targeted union fight between Dubois and WBA/WBC/WBO world champion Oleksandr Usyk anyway. On the one hand, both Dubois and Chisora are under contract with promoter Frank Warren. On the other hand, the IBF itself does not particularly insist on Dubois vs. Chisora.
“A union has priority over compulsory defense,” said an IBF spokesman. Dubois has time to submit a corresponding application to the IBF until the association releases the duel with Chisora for auction (Purse Bid “).
Report: Deal for Usyk vs. Dubois shortly before completion
The American boxing Bible “The Ring” recently reported that the negotiations on a fight between USYK and Dubois are about to finish. The showdown is scheduled to take place on July 12th in the Wembley Stadium of London.
The camps of heavyweight champions are about to finalize a deal, writes the magazine, which refers to non-mentioned “sources”.
Since “The Ring” has recently been owned by Box-Mogul Turki al-Heikh, which also pulls the threads at USYK and DUBOIS, these sources should be considered reliable.
Usyk had already put together the heavyweight crown with its first triumph about Tyson Fury in May 2024. Shortly afterwards, the Ukrainian lay down the IBF title to contest a direct revenge against Fury. The IBF then highlighted its “interim” master dubois to the full champion.