On Saturday, August 20, WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will meet in a rematch with Briton Anthony Joshua.
The battle will take place at the Jeddah Super Dome in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which can accommodate up to 40,000 spectators.. Approximate start of the match at 00:00 Kyiv time.
Your attention to the results of the undercard rematch Usyk - Joshua:.
Filip Hrgovic (14-0, 12 KOs) - Zhang Zhilei (24-0-1, 19 KOs) IBF heavyweight elimination bout.
Callum Smith (28-1, 20 KOs) vs. Mathieu Boderlik (21-1, 12 KOs) WBC light heavyweight elimination bout. Smith won by knockout in the 4th round.
Badu Jack (26-3-3, 16 KOs) - Richard Rivera (21-0, 16 KOs) 10-round cruiserweight bout. Jack won by split decision 96-94, 94-96, 96-94.
Bader Samrin (5-0, 4 KOs) - Fuad Tarverdi (5-2, 4 KOs) 6-round lightweight rating bout.
Ziyad Almaayuf (debut) vs. Jose Alatorre (debut) 4-round super lightweight bout. Almaayuf wins by TKO in the first round.
Ramla Ali (6-0, 1 KOs) - Cristal Garcia Nova (10-2, 10 KOs) 8-round bantamweight bout. Ali won by TKO in the first round..
Andrew Tabiti (19-1, 15 KOs) - James Wilson (7-0-1, 6 KOs) 8-round heavyweight rating bout. Tabiti defeated the opponent's refusal to go to the sixth round.
Ben Whittaker (1-0, 1 KO) - Petr Nosich (6-0, 3 KOs) 6-round heavyweight rating bout. Whittaker won by unanimous decision 60-54, 60-54, 59-55.
Daniel Lapin (5-0) - Jozef Yurko (9-6-1, 6 KOs) 8-round light heavyweight rating bout. Lapin won by unanimous decision with a score of 80-72 (three times).
Rashid Belkhasa (debut) - Traicho Georgiev (0-3, 0 KOs) 4-round welterweight fight. Georgiev won by split decision.
An online video broadcast of the second duel between Usyk and Joshua will be available on our website.
So in the rematch, all the titles that the Ukrainian took away from the Briton last year, as well as the belt of The Ring magazine, will be at stake..
The 35-year-old Usyk has 19 wins (13 by knockout) in 19 fights. He spent three of them in the heavyweight division..
Before that, Alexander became the absolute world champion in the cruiserweight (weight category up to 90.7 kg), having won all four of the most prestigious belts there..
Joshua, 32, has 24 wins (22 by KO) and two losses on his track record.. For the first time, AJ lost in June 2019 to Andy Ruiz, but in December of the same year he defeated the Mexican in a rematch and regained his titles.
Previously, TSN Prosport talked about what you need to know about the rematch between Usyk and Joshua.