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Follow Claressa Shields vs. Lani Daniels live results and round-by-round updates for the undisputed women's heavyweight championship bout on Saturday night in Detroit.
Former heavyweight champion Lani Daniels went down to light-heavyweight and won a title there, and is now heading back to heavyweight to fight arguably the biggest star in women’s boxing on Saturday night. And after that? Well, super-middleweight is the target, naturally.
Usyk completed the feat back in May 2024 when he first beat Tyson Fury, and after beating him again in their rematch, he most recently knocked out Daniel Dubois to become a two-time undisputed ruler, and the first man in the history of the four-belt era to achieve that.
After Dana White revealed Jones had vacated the title and exited the sport, criticism for avoiding a unification fight with Tom Aspinall only increased. And ‘Bones’ came under more flak after Donald Trump’s UFC White House announcement saw him reverse his retirement just weeks later.
The WBO has ordered negotiations for a bout between its interim heavyweight champion Joseph Parker and the unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, the ruling body said on Thursday.
Speaking on The Big Podcast with Shaq, Tyson didn’t hesitate to name Razor Ruddock as the hardest puncher he faced, but admits there were ‘a lot of hard punchers’ out there during his prime years.
As such, it appears that Parker may be left on the wayside by boxing once again. In February he was due to face then-IBF world champion Daniel Dubois, only for the Brit to fall ill during fight week. Here are the reasons why Parker may not get his shot at Usyk.
Oleksandr Usyk has scored a fifth-round knockout of Daniel Dubois to became the undisputed world heavyweight champion for a second time.
The losses saw Fury lose the WBC title he had held since beating Deontay Wilder in the second fight in their epic trilogy, and he defended it again in their final showdown in 2021, which was one of the greatest heavyweight fights of the modern era. Speaking to IFL TV, Fury laid out when and how he might return to the ring.