Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are scheduled to fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship on DAZN Pay-Per-View Saturday at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) owns the WBC belt while Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) is the IBF, WBA and WBO champ.
Fury on Friday weighed in at 262 pounds, his lightest since he came in at 254½ for his fight against Otto Wallin in 2019. Usyk weighed a career-high 223½.
Also on the card:
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Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Breidis, cuiserweights (for vacant IBF title)
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Joe Cordina vs. Anthony Cacace junior lightweights (for Cordina’s IBF title)
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Sergey Kovalev vs. Robin Safar, cruiserweights
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Agit Kabayel vs. Frank Sanchez, heavyweights
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Mark Chamberlain vs. Joshua Wahab, lightweights
The featured portion of the show is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT. (main event later in the show).
Boxing Junkie will post round-by-round analysis of the main event and results of the featured bouts, as well as a brief summary, immediately after the fights end. Simply return to this post and refresh when the time comes.
Full coverage – detailed fight stories, analysis and more – will follow on separate posts the night of the card and the following day.
Enjoy the fights!
Story originally appeared on Boxing Junkie
