EVENT : Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk
Date: Saturday, August 20
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 18:00 CET
Main event ringwalks (approx): 17:30 EST / 23:30 CET
TV : United States: DAZN , Everywhere but the U.S.: DAZN (excluding the UK, Ireland, MENA and Ukraine)
Place : The fight takes place at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia
The sport of championship heavyweight boxing is once more popular. The fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will decide three of the four major championships in the sport’s top level. On Saturday night, everything takes place inside the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia, with the main event broadcast live on DAZN (5:15 p.m. ET — subscribe now).
Usyk won the Cruiserweight World Boxing Super Series in 2018 by defeating Murat Gassiev in the championship match, unifying all four cruiserweight titles. He made his heavyweight debut in 2019, defeating Chazz Witherspoon and Derek Chisora in rather unimpressive fashion before once more demonstrating his superior pound-for-pound skill by outworking Joshua throughout the course of 12 rounds.
On Saturday, Joshua will try to win the title for the third time in his career. In June 2019, he too fell short to Andy Ruiz. Joshua was able to win the rematch with ease after making the necessary improvements.
Anthony Joshua Record And Bio :
- Nationality: British
- Born: October 15th, 1989
- Height: 6′ 6″
- Reach: 82″
- Total fights: 26
- Record: 24-2 with 22 knockouts
Oleksandr Usyk Record And Bio :
- Nationality: Ukrainian
- Born: January 17, 1987
- Height: 6′ 3″
- Reach: 78″
- Total fights: 19
- Record: 19-0 with 13 knockouts
Oleksandr Usyk vs.Anthony Joshua 2 fight card
- Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua for WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles
- Filip Hrgovic vs. Zhilei Zhang; IBF world heavyweight title eliminator
- Callum Smith vs. Mathieu Bauderlique; Light heavyweight
- Badou Jack vs. Richard Rivera; Cruiserweight
- Ziyad Almaayouf vs. Jose Alatorre; Super lightweight
- Ramla Ali vs. Crystal Garcia Nova; Women’s super bantamweight
- Andrew Tabiti vs. James Wilson; Heavyweight
- Ben Whittaker vs. Petar Nosic; Light heavyweight
- Daniel Lapin vs. Jozef Jurko; Light heavyweight
- Rashed Belhasa vs. Traycho Georgiev; TBA
- Bader Al Samreen vs. Faud Taverdi; Super lightweight