Oleksandr Usyk has become boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champion for a second time after beating Britain’s Daniel Dubois at a packed Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian, 38, knocked Dubois down with a stunning right hook midway through round five, before finishing the job moments later with a devastating left hook to the chin of the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n
Dubois was bidding to avenge his previous loss to Usyk and become the UK’s first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.<\/p>\n
However, the 27-year-old now joins Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua with two losses apiece to the undefeated Ukrainian.<\/p>\n
Usyk – who brought a group of Ukrainian war veterans to the fight – came in with the WBO, WBC and WBA belts, and Dubois the IBF.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old previously had all four versions but gave up the IBF last year, with Dubois claiming the vacant belt with a devasting win over Anthony Joshua in September.<\/p>\n
In their previous fight, Usyk showed his class in Poland’s Krakow in 2023, where Dubois was adjudged to have landed an illegal low blow in the fifth round.<\/p>\n
But the Ukrainian had been warned throughout fight week that he would face a “different” boxer on this occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk has become boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champion for a second time after beating Britain’s Daniel Dubois at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-275792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882171668551265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275792","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=275792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}