Anthony Joshua fights Daniel Dubois tonight for his IBF heavyweight title within the headliner on the sold-out Wembley Stadium on PPV. The occasion will likely be staged in entrance of 96,000 followers and proven live on DAZN PPV.
We’ll present dwell updates and outcomes of tonight’s motion beneath.
– A bloody and battered-looking Josh Kelly (16-1-1, 8 KOs) edged Ishmael Davis (13-1, 8 KOs) and dodged a bullet, profitable a 12-round majority choice on this middleweight contest. The scores have been 114-114, 115-113 and 115-114.
The alternative opponent, Davis, 29, began sluggish however got here on sturdy within the twelfth spherical to nail an exhausted-looking Kelly with massive photographs to the top. Bleeding from a minimize over his left eye and on the bridge of his nostril, Kelly was compelled to maneuver and maintain to outlive the twelfth.
The motion in that spherical resembled Kelly’s knockout loss to David Avanesyan in 2021. He crumbled from the stress from Avaneysan in the identical method he did within the twelfth towards Davis tonight. Nonetheless, the 30-year-old Kelly had banked sufficient early rounds to win a slender choice, however it was not a formidable efficiency by him.
– In mild welterweight motion, Josh Padley (15-0, 4 KOs) pulled off an enormous upset, defeating light-weight Mark Chamberlain (16-1, 12 KOs) by a ten spherical unanimous choice. The scores have been 95-93, 96-92 and 96-92.
Padley, 28, dropped Chamberlain within the eighth spherical with an enormous left hand that stunned him. Within the ninth spherical, Chamberlain was penalized one level for shoving Padley.
Occasion info
Starting time: 11:00 a.m. ET/4:00 p.m. UK
Headliner ring walks at roughly 5:00 p.m. ET/10:00 p.m. UK
Important PPV card at 11:00 a.m ET
Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois
Tyler Denny vs. Hamzah Sheeraz
Anthony Cacace vs. Josh Warrington
Joshua Buatsi vs. Willy Hutchinson
Mark Chamberlain vs. Josh Padley
Josh Kelly vs. Ishmael Davis
The undercard is slanted extra towards British followers, because the U.S. public isn’t too acquainted with any of the names. So many People will buy the occasion on PPV to see the Joshua-Dubois struggle and never take a lot curiosity within the different fights.
Ideally, the organizers ought to have put one or two high quality fights involving U.S. or Mexican fighters to stability out the cardboard relatively than having it slanted 100% for UK followers.
Joshua is taking his first struggle towards a high-caliber fighter in two years since his second loss to Oleksandr Usyk. It’s unknown if the two-time heavyweight champion Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is mentally and bodily prepared for a younger expertise like Dubois. That is make-or-break for Joshua, who wants the win to point out that he nonetheless has one thing left.
