Kevin Lee now has two fight dates marked on the calendar to close out 2024.
Promotional officials confirmed to MMA Fighting that Lee will make his return to MMA at Lights Out Championship 17 against Thiago Oliveira, which takes place Sept. 28 in Wayne, Mich. MMA Junkie first reported the booking.
The card streams on Spectation Sports.
Lee, who is also slated to compete on the Nov. 15 Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA 8 event against an opponent yet to be announced, makes his first appearance in over a year after getting stopped in a second chance bout with the UFC against Rinat Fakhretdinov in July 2023. “Motown Phenom” will compete in his original home state of Michigan, and does so with a 2-3 record in his past five contests, and looks for his first MMA victory since a decision win over Diego Sanchez for Eagle FC in March 2022.
Oliveira, a 30-fight veteran, recently snapped an eight-fight pro MMA losing streak with a submission win in February, followed up by fighting to a draw in Canada’s BTC promotion in June.
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We are officially on the road to UFC 307.
On Monday, the UFC released its official poster for the upcoming pay-per-view event which takes place on Oct. 5 at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the main event, Alex Pereira defends his light heavyweight title against Khalil Rountree Jr., while in the co-main event, Raquel Pennington puts her bantamweight belt on the line against former champion Julianna Peña, and the UFC 307 fight poster puts the focus on both fights.
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Pereira is the current front-runner for 2024 Fighter of the Year, with successful title defenses against former champions Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka at UFC 300 and UFC 303 respectively. Rountree is on a five-fight winning streak but has not competed since last December, in part due to a suspension for failing a drug test.
Pennington won the vacant women’s bantamweight title by defeating Mayra Bueno Silva at UFC 297 back in January. This will be her first title defense. Peña, meanwhile, won the title by defeating Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 in one of the biggest upsets in UFC history. She then dropped the title back to Nunes in their rematch seven months later and has not competed since.
UFC 307 also features a number of other marquee matchups, including a bantamweight bout between Jose Aldo and Mario Bautista, a featherweight contest between Movsar Evloev and Aljamain Sterling, a women’s bantamweight battle between Kayla Harrison and Ketlen Vieira, and a welterweight clash between Stephen Thompson and Joaquin Buckley, among other fights.
Sean O’Malley believes he was robbed by the judges.
This past weekend, O’Malley dropped a unanimous decision to Merab Dvalishvili, losing the bantamweight title in the main event of UFC 306. In the immediate aftermath, O’Malley accepted his loss, offering “no excuses” for his lackluster performance, but now a few days removed from the event, “Suga” changed his mind.
On Thursday, O’Malley re-watched his fight with Dvalishvili for the first time, live-Tweeting his reaction to the event, and making the case that he should have won the decision by taking Rounds 1, 3, and 5.
Round 1. I won that round 100%!! Based on damage that’s my round.
— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) September 19, 2024
Round 2 def lost. Took very little damage tho
— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) September 19, 2024
Round 3 was closer than round 1 in my opinion. My round. Up 2-1 going into round 4
— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) September 19, 2024
Round 4 Merabs round for sure. 2-2 going into the 5th
— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) September 19, 2024
Round 5 I won . I am the champ. God is good. 1,3,5 round I won. Defending belt against Umar in Vegas June/July.
— Sean O’Malley (@SugaSeanMMA) September 19, 2024
After concluding his rewatch, O’Malley also jumped on a brief Twitter Spaces where he elaborated on why he feels he deserved to win.
“I had not rewatched the fight, because the narrative around this f*cking fight was I got my ass whooped,” O’Malley said. “… I won the first, third, and fifth rounds, and I challenge all you f*cking little dorks that think that I got my ass kicked to go and rewatch that fight… Rewatch that fight, whether you hate me or love me, rewatch the fight, turn the commentary off, and tell me I did not win that fight.
“I won the first, third, and fifth. Oh I’m f*cking fired up right now. I’m the champ! I won! I’m the champ! Where’s my belt?! Get that belt out my suitcase! I’m the champ, baby!…
“Merab is a bitch still! I had him running around, holding his f*cking little gut. The champ is here! The champ is here! Go rewatch that fight. 135 bantamweight champion of the world is still here. F*ck Merab! Let’s go!
“But for real, Round 3 was close. Round 3 and 5, two judges gave it to me. Round 1, in my opinion, was clearly my round. Round 3 was a closer round, I still think it was my round. Round 1, I don’t know how they gave it to Merab. Just look at the stat sheet, he took me down a few times but literally did no damage. Come on now, tell me I’m wrong! Round 1, 3, and 5. I won that fight. It’s as simple as that.”
Aside from changing his tune on the fight, O’Malley also appears to be shifting his position on where he goes from here.
Following the loss, O’Malley revealed a hip injury that requires surgery and with recovery time, he might be out for a full year. But now the former champion appears re-energized, claiming he’ll be back next summer to “defend his belt” against presumptive No. 1 contender Umar Nurmagomedov.
“Merab is f*cking terrified of Umar,” O’Malley said. “Doesn’t want to fight Umar. I don’t know why. Umar is good, don’t get me wrong. But Merab is terrified. He’s not a champ. I’m the champ. I would fight Umar next. I can fight Umar next for the belt. I’m the champ. I should defend my belt against Umar. I have to get surgery Oct. 3, I’ll be back probably June or July. I’m going to come back as quick as possible because I love this shit.
“God it feels good to be the champ again!”
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This is not the first time O’Malley has retroactively dismissed a loss.
O’Malley’s first career defeat came against Chito Vera in 2020 and afterward, “Suga” repeatedly referred to himself as undefeated heading into their rematch, and also claimed he “won” his No-Contest against Pedro Munhoz. And it appears O’Malley intends to do something similar here as he continued to rip Dvalishvili.
“Please, I’m telling you guys, you can’t have Merab as champ,” O’Malley said. “He’s boring as f*ck. I just rewatched the fight. I tried to make it as unboring as possible. I tried getting up, defending — I actually stuffed more takedowns than Henry Cejudo… I had Merab literally holding his [stomach], running, sprinting from me, holding his f*cking guts, praying the fight was over, staring at the clock. Round 1, 3, and 5! The champ is here!”
Former UFC champ Matt Serra was not impressed with Sean O’Malley’s coach Tim Welch at UFC 306.
Merab Dvalishvili defeated O’Malley to capture the bantamweight title in the main event of the promotion’s debut card at Sphere in Las Vegas. Serra, who cornered Dvalishvili on many occasions in the past, reacted to the fight — and more specifically, Welch’s cornering efforts on his UFC Unfiltered podcast with comedian Jim Norton.
“This fight exposed him as a coach because when your guy is winning and knocking people out, sure, you look like a f*cking superhero,” Serra said. “When your fighter is obviously losing the fight — and starts losing rounds — Tim Welch was, like, not wanting to hurt [O’Malley’s] feelings. ‘OK, good round,’ no, you’re losing f*cking three rounds. You got to get in his ass. … He was afraid that he did not know how to handle his guy [with] that many rounds, and I thought his f*cking corner work was shit.
“So he exposed himself. [Dvalishvili] took care of business and Tim Welch had no answers for his fighter.”
O’Malley said he had “zero excuses” for his performance in the aftermath, and said he would take an extended period of time off following the second loss of his pro career. “Sugar” then revealed that he suffered a torn labrum, and will be heading for surgery on Oct. 3.
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Deiveson Figueiredo is confident that he should be first in line against newly crowned UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili.
The former UFC flyweight kingpin has gone 3-0 so far at 135-pound with wins over Rob Font, Cody Garbrandt and Marlon Vera, and was at The Sphere this past Saturday to watch Dvalishvili dethrone Sean O’Malley in the main event of UFC 306 and mention his name at the post-fight press conference.
“I was watching the fight and in the end he looked at me, I was 10 meters away from him, and he started pointing at me,” Figueiredo said in an interview with MMA Fighting. “I was rooting for him because now we can make this fight happen. I thought he would call me out in the cage but he mentioned my name in interviews, and I’m here, man.”
Dvalishvili said the Brazilian “deserves it more” than top-contender Umar Nurmagomedov, who’s 6-0 so far in the UFC and recently beat Cory Sandhagen via decision.
“Umar talking about [a title shot], some bullshit there,” Dvalishvili said on Saturday. “[Before he fought Sandhagen] he defeated somebody [in their] debut and then now he wants to fight for the belt? You are out of your mind.
“Figueiredo deserves it more. He’s a former champion, he’s a big name. He’s been fighting. He already beat one former champion and two guys from the top 15. Actually, [Marlon] ‘Chito’ Vera doesn’t count because ‘Chito’ Vera is not a top-15 fighter. He sucks. But Figueiredo deserves it more. He has my respect. He’s a man and he’s been respectful and he’s cool and he didn’t get here because he’s somebody’s cousin. He got here by himself. He’s a good fighter. He’s been there. He was a champion. At least he’s humble and he’s a real fighter.”
Figueiredo agrees with the champion, adding that Nurmagomedov is still untested against the elite of the division. Nurmagomedov’s best wins other than Sandhagen were Raoni Barcelos and Brian Kelleher, both via first-round finish.
“Umar just got here,” Figueiredo said. “He just had his first fight against a tough guy and I’m sure he has to get tested more, to fight someone else first — maybe [O’Malley]. I’m already tested. I left a division where I was champion and moved up and fought strong guys. I had no easy fights. I definitely present more danger to Merab. I’m ready to fight him.
“People have been calling me out since I got to this division. Maybe they think I’m an easy fight, but I show them otherwise in the octagon. I’m ready, man. I’m ready to fight for the belt. I want to win that belt.”
Figueiredo said he would be willing to face Dvalishvili at UFC 310 on Dec. 7, if the champion is healthy for a relatively short turnaround. Dvalishvili competed in seven rounds this year, going 2-0 against Henry Cejudo and O’Malley. The Brazilian veteran said he will focus on grappling training to “confuse” Dvalishvili and become a two-division champion.
“It’s hard for Merab to change his style,” Figueiredo said. “His style is annoying, he trades a little bit and then takes you down pretty fast. You have to be really smart when you fight someone like Merab to put him in danger, too, and I am that guy. I have good jiu-jitsu, I’ve been working a lot on my grappling, and I’ll focus even more on my wrestling now that I’m aiming for this fight.”
“I’ve been evolving a lot in my grappling every since I moved up in weight,” he continued. “I left a division where I was more of a striker and brawled everybody, and now I see people doing more grappling in this division, so I went back a bit and re-activated my knowledge in grappling.”
UFC 306 is officially in the books, and Merab Dvalishvili is the new UFC bantamweight champion after defeating Sean O’Malley in the main event via unanimous decision. Where do both guys go from this past Saturday’s card, and with O’Malley announcing he’s having surgery, can he get back to a title shot quickly?
On an all-new edition of Between the Links, Jon Anik kicks off the show to give his reaction to the event, the Sphere experience with Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier, Dvalishvili and Valentina Shevchenko becoming new champions, and more. Additionally, topics may include the two big fights announced for UFC 309 with Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic becoming official, along with Charles Oliveira vs. Michael Chandler 2 getting revealed as the co-main event, Conor McGregor’s absence from the octagon extending even longer, and whatever else is on your mind.
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In the ever-shifting MMA landscape, ranking the world’s greatest fighters might seem like a fool’s errand, but that’s exactly what we’ve set out to do with the MMA Fighting Global Rankings. Here, our esteemed panel sorts out the movers and shakers from every division to provide you with the most definitive list of the best fighters on the planet.
Updated pound-for-pound rankings can be found here.
Sean O’Malley is no longer UFC bantamweight champion. How long does he stay near the top after such a humbling loss?
According to our panel, O’Malley’s defeat at the hands of Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 306 not only cost him his belt, he also slides down to No. 3 in the latest edition of the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, one spot behind the undefeated Umar Nurmagomedov. Add in the fact that O’Malley has stated he plans to take a considerable amount of time off to deal with an injury, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone if O’Malley falls even further in the fast-moving 135-pound division.
In the UFC 306 co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko reminded everyone why she’s one of the best to ever do it.
With a grinding, workwomanlike effort this past Saturday, “Bullet” hit the mark once more to finally earn a win over Alexa Grasso and regain the flyweight title. The series sits at 1-1-1, but given the controversial split draw of the second fight that Shevchenko arguably won, and her sheer dominance in the trilogy bout, you get the sense this rivalry has been put to bed for the time being.
Though Shevchenko, 36, is approaching the twilight of her career, her most recent effort showed she’s more than capable of still competing at an elite level so it’s not unreasonable to think she could add a few more championship rubies to her collection before it’s all said and done. Standing in her way are a number of worthy contenders, including UFC 306 co-main event backup Manon Fiorot and the fast-rising Natalia Silva, neither of whom has tasted defeat in the octagon yet.
Silva is one of several contenders to make major jumps in the latest MMA Fighting Global Rankings update, with Caio Borralho, Sean Brady, Diego Lopes, Umar Nurmagomedov, and Norma Dumont all picking up significant victories.
One important note, we had two GOATS depart from our rankings this month (Jon Jones, temporarily, due to 18 months of inactivity, Demetrious Johnson due to retirement) as well as one panelist, so if you’re wondering why there are so many shakeups up and down the board, that should help explain it.
If you need any more explanation, make sure to check out the latest edition of the MMA Fighting Rankings show.
Check out the complete September rankings below.
Heavyweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 10 Serghei Spivac def. No. 8 Marcin Tybura, No. 15 Jairzinho Rozenstruik def. No. 9 Tai Tuivasa
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 2 Alexander Volkov vs. No. 3 Ciryl Gane (UFC 308, Oct. 26), No. 9 Renan Ferreira vs. Francis Ngannou (PFL Super Fights: Battle of the Giants, Oct. 19), No. 10 Anatoly Malykhin vs. Reug Reug (ONE 169, Nov. 8), No. 14 Derrick Lewis vs. Jhonata Diniz (UFC Edmonton, Nov. 2)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Linton Vassell (4), Oleg Popov (3), Ryan Bader (2)
Falling out of the rankings (previous ranking shown): No. 2 Jon Jones (inactivity)
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 1 Alex Pereira vs. No. 10 Khalil Rountree (UFC 307, Oct. 5), No. 3 Magomed Ankalaev vs. No. 7 Aleksandar Rakic (UFC 308, Oct. 26), No. 8 Nikita Krylov vs. No. 15 Azamat Murzakanov (UFC 309, Nov. 16), No. 9 Anatoly Malykhin vs. Reug Reug (heavyweight bout) (ONE Fight Night 28, Nov. 8),
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Roman Dolidze (2), Bogdan Guskov (2), Impa Kasanganay (2), Anthony Smith (1)
Middleweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 1 Dricus du Plessis def. No. 3 Israel Adesanya
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 4 Robert Whittaker vs. No. 12 Khamzat Chimaev (UFC 308, Oct. 26), No. 7 Nassourdine Imavov vs. No. 8 (tied) Brendan Allen (UFC Paris, Sept. 28), No. 14 Roman Dolidze vs. Kevin Holland (UFC 307, Oct. 5), No. 15 Michel Pereira vs. Anthony Hernandez (UFC Fight Night, Oct. 19)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Anthony Hernandez (4), Fabian Edwards (1), Jack Hermansson (1)
Falling out of the rankings (previous ranking shown): No. 15 Anthony Hernandez
Welterweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 9 Sean Brady def. No. 6 Gilbert Burns
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 10 Stephen Thompson vs. No. 15 Joaquin Buckley (UFC 307, Oct. 5), No. 13 Geoff Neal vs. Rafael dos Anjos (UFC 308, Oct. 26)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Michael Morales (2), Colby Covington (1), Rinat Fakhretdinov (1), Vicente Luque (1), Magomed Magomedkerimov (1), Shamil Musaev (1), Magomed Umalatov (1)
Lightweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 7 Usman Nurmagomedov def. Alexander Shabliy, No. 12 Dan Hooker def. No. 9 Mateusz Gamrot
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 3 Max Holloway vs. Ilia Topuria (featherweight bout) (UFC 308, Oct. 26), No. 12 Renato Moicano vs. No. 14 Benoit Saint Denis (UFC Paris, Sept. 28), No. 13 A.J. McKee vs. Paul Hughes (PFL Super Fights: Battle of the Giants, Oct. 19)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Paddy Pimblett (3), Jalin Turner (1), Matt Frevola (1), Tofiq Musayev (1)
Falling out of the rankings (previous ranking shown): No. 15 Paddy Pimblett
Featherweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 11 Diego Lopes def. No. 5 Brian Ortega
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 1 Ilia Topuria vs. No. 3 Max Holloway (UFC 308, Oct. 26), No. 15 Dan Ige vs. Lerone Murphy (UFC 308, Oct. 26)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Lerone Murphy (2), Chihiro Suzuki (2), Movlid Khaybulaev (1), Bryce Mitchell (1), Adam Borics (1)
Bantamweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 2 Merab Dvalishvili def. No. 1 Sean O’Malley, No. 8 Umar Nurmagomedov def. No. 4 Cory Sandhagen, No. 9 (tied) Deiveson Figueiredo def. No. 12 Marlon Vera
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 4 Patchy Mix vs. Leandro Higo (Bellator Paris, Nov. 16), No. 7 Jose Aldo vs. Mario Bautista (UFC 307, Oct. 5), No. 14 Rob Font vs. Kyler Phillips (UFC Vegas 99, Oct. 19)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Magomed Magomedov (3), Jonathan Martinez (2), Kai Asakura (1), Mario Bautista (1), Kyler Phillips (1)
Flyweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 7 (tied) Kai Kara-France def. No. 11 Steve Erceg
Upcoming bouts featuring ranked fighters: No. 2 (tied) Brandon Royval vs. No. 8 Tatsuro Taira (UFC Vegas 98, Oct. 12), No. 4 Brandon Moreno vs. No. 6 Amir Albazi (UFC Edmonton, Nov. 2), No. 7 Adriano Moraes vs. Danny Kingad (ONE 169, Nov. 8), No. 13 Matheus Nicolau vs. No. 15 Asu Almabayev (UFC Vegas 99, Oct. 19)
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Hiromasa Ougikubo (2), Askar Akarov (1), Kairat Akhmetov (1), Jafel Filho (1), Tagir Ulanbekov (1)
Falling out of the rankings (previous ranking shown): No. 4 Demetrious Johnson (retired)
Women’s Bantamweight
Recent results for ranked fighters (previous ranking shown): No. 12 Norma Dumont def. No. 6 Irene Aldana, No. 8 Karol Rosa def. No. 10 Pannie Kianzad, No. 9 Yana Santos def. Chelsea Chandler
Fighters also receiving votes (number of ballot appearances shown): Loma Lookboonmee (3), Tecia Pennington (2), Karolina Kowalkiewicz (1), Danni McCormack (1)
Falling out of the rankings (previous ranking shown): N/A
A refresher on the ground rules:
The six-person voting panel consists of MMA Fighting staffers Alexander K. Lee, Guilherme Cruz, Mike Heck, E. Casey Leydon, Damon Martin, and Jed Meshew.
Fighters will be removed from the rankings if they do not compete within 18 months of their most recent bout. Updates to the rankings are typically completed following each month’s UFC pay-per-view.
Should a fighter announce their retirement, our panel will decide whether that fighter should immediately be removed from the rankings or maintain their position until further notice. (Let’s put it this way: We’d have taken Khabib Nurmagomedov out of our rankings a lot quicker than the UFC did.)
Holding a promotion’s title does not guarantee that fighter will be viewed as the best in their promotion. Additionally, fighters who regularly compete or hold titles in multiple weight classes are eligible to be ranked in multiple lists.
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Jake Paul can leave his disguise at home the next time he wants to attend a UFC event.
This past weekend, the social influencer-turned-boxing enthusiast posted a video claiming he had to sneak into UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas wearing a wig, fake beard, and glasses because he was supposedly banned from the UFC. While that makes for good content to post on social media, Dana White shrugged off the idea he banned Paul or anybody else from attending events when speaking to reporters following a Contender Series event Tuesday in Las Vegas.
“Oscar De La Hoya was there [at UFC 306]. OK, let’s put it that way,” White said with a laugh when referencing his tumultuous relationship with the former boxing champion. “Nobody’s banned from the UFC.
“Listen, that kid knows how to market and do his thing and all that good shit. Jake Paul’s welcome to come to UFC.”
Paul attended UFC 306 to support his business partner Sean O’Malley after they teamed together to launch a men’s body care line together called ‘W.’ Unfortunately for Paul, he had to witness O’Malley suffer a unanimous decision defeat to Merab Dvalishvili in the main event.
Over the years, Paul and White have engaged in a volatile war of words, but lately the UFC CEO has taken a different approach any time he’s asked about the 27-year-old fighter from Cleveland.
Rather than erupting at whatever Paul says or does, White has largely just brushed off the comments and refused to engage in any kind of back and forth with him publicly.
Even Paul declaring that he was banned from UFC events only got a chuckle out of White. In other words, if Paul wants to attend another UFC event in the future, he doesn’t have to play dress-up.
With Nate Landwehr out, Hubbard now meets Alexander Hernandez at the UFC’s upcoming pay-per-view event on Oct. 5 in Salt Lake City, multiple people with knowledge of the promotion’s plans confirm to MMA Fighting. Hubbard first revealed the change on social media.
Hubbard is 1-1 inside the octagon since returning to the UFC after competing on season 31 of The Ultimate Fighter. In the TUF 31 lightweight final, Hubbard was stopped by season winner Kurt Holobaugh at UFC 292 in August 2023. “Thud” bounced back to pick up his first promotional win in three years with a decision win over Michal Figlak at UFC Vegas 91 in April.
Hernandez looks to get back in the win column after dropping two straight, and four of his past five outings. After defeating Jim Miller in February 2023, Hernandez lost decisions to Bill Algeo and Damon Jackson.
UFC 307 is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between champion Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree.
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The Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois fight card is set with with a main event battle for Britain atop the festivities.
This Saturday, Joshua and Dubois face off in a 12-round heavyweight contest with Dubois’s IBF heavyweight title on the line. The event takes place at Wembley Arena in London, with the undercard set to kick off at 11 a.m. ET.
The event is available for purchase for $ 19.99 on PPV.COM or DAZN.
Joshua and Dubois are expected to make their walks to the ring around 5 p.m. ET. The winner of this highly anticipated heavyweight clash is expected to face the winner of the upcoming undisputed heavyweight championship rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, which takes place on Dec. 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In the co-main event, Tyler Denny takes on Hamza Sheeraz for Denny’s European middleweight title, and an IBF super featherweight title bout between Anthony Cacace and Josh Warrington will also take place on the undercard.
Check out the full Joshua vs. Dubois fight card below.
Fight Card (PPV.com at 11 a.m. ET)
Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois — IBF heavyweight title fight
Tyler Denny vs. Hamza Sheeraz — EBU European middleweight title fight
Anthony Cacace vs. Josh Warrington — IBF and IBO super featherweight title fight
Ishmael Davis vs. Josh Kelly — 12-round middleweight fight
Joshua Buatsi vs. Willy Hutchinson — WBO interim light heavyweight title fight
Mark Chamberlain vs. Josh Padley — 10-round lightweight fight
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