{"id":228174,"date":"2025-07-01T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228174\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:44:14","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-defeated-juggernaut-who-shattered-daniel-dubois-eye-socket-years-before-stellar-pro-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228174\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk defeated ‘Juggernaut’ who shattered Daniel Dubois’ eye socket years before stellar pro career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oleksandr Usyk will face Daniel Dubois for a second time having beaten him in 2023, but Usyk has also beaten the one other man to hand Dubois a defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> is hoping to put any low-blow controversy<\/a> to bed as he is set to rematch Daniel Dubois<\/a> on July 19th at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n

Usyk defeated Dubois in 2023 via round nine KO, though Dubois has been on a dominant run of form since then, picking up much-needed confidence with wins over Jarrell Miller<\/a>, Filip Hrgovic<\/a>, and Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dubois has just one other loss on his record, to a \u2018Juggernaut\u2019 Usyk defeated in 2013.<\/p>\n

\"DanielPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesOleksandr Usyk defeated Joe Joyce in amateur bout years before Joyce vs Dubois<\/p>\n

In 2020, Joe \u2018The Juggernaut\u2019 Joyce<\/a> became the first man to defeat, and stop, Daniel Dubois.<\/p>\n

Dubois was knocked out by a left jab, having taken a knee due to a fractured eye socket caused by Joyce.<\/p>\n

While many ruled Dubois out, Joyce went on an impressive run, eventually defeating Joseph Parker<\/a>, who is now touted as one of the heavyweight division\u2019s greatest fighters.<\/p>\n

Things went wrong for Joyce when he faced Zhilei Zhang<\/a>, taking two damaging stoppage losses that changed him as a fighter. He has since lost to Derek Chisora<\/a> and Filip Hrgovic.<\/p>\n

It was in 2013, though, that Usyk was standing opposite Joyce in the amateur World Series of Boxing. <\/p>\n

Usyk defeated Joyce, winning every round on all three scorecards, and Joyce had previously spoken on getting his revenge, though that now seems like a fight that will never and should never materialise.<\/p>\n

Oleksandr Usyk vs Daniel Dubois 2 isn\u2019t the only mega-fight on July 19th<\/p>\n

Usyk vs Dubois 2 tops a card that will also feature Kevin Lerena, who dropped Dubois three times<\/a>, vs Lawrence Okolie. Dubois thinks Okolie will beat Lerena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the United States, though, another mega-fight will take place as Manny Pacquiao<\/a> is set to return to the ring at the age of 46 against welterweight world champion Mario Barrios, who was born months after Pacquiao turned pro<\/a> as a fighter.<\/p>\n

\"MannyPhoto by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Pacquiao won his first world title when Barrios was three years old.<\/p>\n

Also on that card, Tim Tszyu will rematch Sebastian Fundora<\/a> after their bloodbath first encounter, and Isaac Cruz will face Angel Fierro for a second time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk will face Daniel Dubois for a second time having beaten him in 2023, but Usyk has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,5061,10619,5122,79,85266,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-daniel-dubois","10":"tag-joe-joyce","11":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-throwbacks","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114775684860899689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}