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Hearn: Joshua fights once every 2025

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1 year ago

May 28, 2025

Image: No More Second Chances: Joshua Must Win Next Fight or Face Immediate Retirement

Promoter Eddie Hearn says that Anthony Joshua will fight “once” in 2025, probably until September. “Hearn states that they are waiting if Tyson Fury will end his retirement to return to AJ again.

Single Joshua 2025 Fight plan

If the fury “Gypsy King” is retired, Hearn says that interested Joshua fighting Daniel Dubois, if he passes through his unquestioned fight for the championship with Oleksandr Usyk on July 19.

Dubois humiliated AJ in September last year, destroying him in five rounds at the Wembley stadium. However, Hearn states that fury remains the highest priority. If he leaves a pension, they will take it.

Hearn is waiting for a decision to fury

“He will only fight once this year. It will be good in mid -September. And by that time we will find out for sure whether the Fury will come back or not,” said Eddie Hearn supervisor ESPN About Anthony Joshua.

AJ comes out of the elbow surgery, so this year he will not be able to get two fights. Perhaps this is a good thing for him, because fans would expect him to fight high -quality opposition. He is not able to defeat the killers such as Agit Kabayel, Filip Hrgovic, and even an inexperienced novice of Moses Itauma.

Fans perceive Joshua (28-4, 25 KO) as a past, and many of them lost interest, seeing how they fight anyone. Sentimental boxing fans who remembered Joshua from what he had done earlier in his career over a decade ago may still be interested in watching him. The rest of the fans perceive him as a warrior for a surplus.

“I just don’t think he can leave it alone. You know why? Because he doesn’t. He is still at the peak of his powers – said Hearn about Fury. “It is very hard to move away from the fight like Anthony Joshua when you still have her.”

Fury: Shadow of his former Self

I can’t believe for a moment that Hearn is seriously approaching fury, not showing signs of falling. He looks 100% faded, wasted shell of what was 10 years ago, when he did nervously nervous 39-year-old Vladimir Klitschko in 2015. Everyone can see that Tyson has nothing in his game. Blow him for genetics or a sedentary lifestyle. I see it as a combination of both because it is muddy luxurious in net value approaching $ 200 millionAnd they eat well between the fights.

Fury’s controversial victory over the former UFC warrior Francis Ngannou showed that he was shot. He should have destroyed this warrior if he still had something, but instead he lost and received a controversial 10-round victory for a divided decision in 2023.

Hearn has done a good job in the last four years of maintaining Anthony’s career, introducing him to four reconstruction fights against the lower level opposition after defeats from Oleksandr Usyk. However, when Joshua stayed back against his first opponent, Daniel Dubois, he was blurred. DDD went through him as if we were speed on the road. This fight was not even remotely to be competitive.

Joshua is much more money for fury than Dubois. This is more winning for him. Tyson looked thoroughly washed in his last two fights Usyk, he was almost knocked out in the first in May 2024.

Were it not for the judge saving fury with a strange eight in the ninth round, he would definitely be finished. In Usyk-Fury rematch in December last year Tyson looked torpid, incompatible with the shape and physically unable to do nothing.

Last updated 28/28/2025

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Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley 2 Live Fight Scorecard and Results – Boxing News

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1 hour ago

October 17, 2026

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"Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley 2 Live Fight Scorecard and Results - Boxing News"

Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley meet for the WBO heavyweight title this evening in their highly-anticipated rematch.

It was back in May when Wardley was making the first defence of his WBO crown against Dubois, in a fight that turned out to be one of the best of the entire year.

‘DDD’ was knocked down twice early on, but was able to recover from those setbacks to dominate the action and inflict plenty of punishment on his rival, leading to the 11th round stoppage win to wrestle the belt away from Wardley.

Just five months on, the pair will meet again after Wardley activated his rematch clause, as the Ipswich man bids to reclaim his title at the first attempt.

He has a difficult task on his hands though, with many backing Dubois to come out on top once moreand potentially move on to unification battles with the likes of Agit Kabayel and former foe Filip Hrgovic.

Stay with Boxing News for a live scorecard, for as long as the fight lasts, and the official result as the British heavyweight duo do battle once more.

Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley live scorecard

This is a Boxing News live scorecard and not the official score from the judges.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
Dubois	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Wardley	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8

Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley fight result

Daniel Dubois TKO2.A destructive performance from Dubois. Back in May he had to recover from the first round knockdown, but this time around he returned the favour by dropping his rival early on and Wardley struggled to recover from that point onwards.

The Ipswich man managed to survive the opening round but it was more of the same in round two, with ‘DDD’ piling on even more pressure and landing a number of huge shots, forcing referee Steve Gray to jump in and stop the action, just as trainer Ben Davison was also throwing the towel in.

A huge statement from Dubois sent out to the rest of the banner division as he retains his WBO heavyweight title.

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Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley II: Start Time and Live Results

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4 hours ago

October 17, 2026

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"Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley II: Start Time and Live Results"

Daniel Dubois defends his WBO heavyweight title against Fabio Wardley on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at The O2 Arena in London, with coverage starting at 7 p.m. BST / 2 p.m. ET and ring walks expected around 10:30 p.m. BST / 5:30 p.m. ET. The rematch airs on DAZN PPV for £24.99 in the UK and $59.99 in the US.

Updated Oct 17, 2026, 2:57 pm EDT

FIGHT DAY! Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley

Daniel Dubois

Fabio Wardley

Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Card starts: 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm BST
Expected ring walks: 6:00 pm EDT / 11:00 pm BST
Scheduled distance: 12 rounds

Super featherweight Nelson Birchall (13-0, 10 KOs) handed Levi Giles (17-4-1) his first stoppage defeat with a seventh-round TKO. The unbeaten prospect’s quick, accurate punching wore down Giles over the scheduled ten-round contest. Giles maintained his effort, but Birchall landed the cleaner shots and increasingly took control. A fifth-round knockdown began a punishing stretch for Giles.

Birchall sent him to the canvas again in the sixth. Giles went down for a third time in the seventh, bringing the fight to an end. Birchall finished with three knockdowns in as many rounds to secure his tenth stoppage victory.

Tony Curtis (15-1, 4 KOs) captured the vacant Commonwealth International super flyweight title with a fourth-round TKO over Kerim Agius (4-2, 2 KOs).

Agius went down in the second and fourth rounds. Referee Sean McAvoy waved off the scheduled eight-round contest at 2:57 of round four.

Leighton Birchall (6-0, 3 KOs) earned a shutout points win over Alejandro Morales Chazaro (9-10-2, 5 KOs) in a featherweight bout. The six-round contest was scored 60-54 in Birchall’s favor.

Super bantamweight Manny Safari (1-0, 1 KO) stopped Jake Pollard (1-122, 1 KO) in the fifth round, marking his first professional appearance with a TKO victory.

Lightweight Fawas Aborode (3-0, 3 KOs) stopped Rashid Omar (8-10, 1 KO) in the fourth round. Aborode dictated the action and finished the contest inside the distance, maintaining his perfect knockout record.

Aaron Noriega (3-0) scored a fourth-round TKO over Leonardo Baez in their super featherweight bout. Noriega celebrated the victory in the ring wearing a Mexican-flag cap.

Middleweight Issiah Hamilton-Allen (4-0) earned a shutout points victory over Jensen Irving (6-41-2, 1 KO). The four-round bout ended with a 40-36 score in Hamilton-Allen’s favor.

Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley
WBO heavyweight title
Expected ring walks: 10:30 p.m. BST / 5:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT

Louie O’Doherty vs Michael Gomez Jr.
British and Commonwealth lightweight titles
Approximate start: 9:30 p.m. BST / 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT

Adam Olaniyan vs Garber
Approximate start: 9:10 p.m. BST / 4:10 p.m. ET / 1:10 p.m. PT

Bakhodir Jalolov vs Solomon Dacres
Heavyweight
Approximate start: 8:10 p.m. BST / 3:10 p.m. ET / 12:10 p.m. PT

Weights:

Dubois 253.9 vs Wardley 248.3
O’Doherty 134.12 vs Gomez Jr 134.3
Olaniyan 250.15 vs Garber 223.15
Jalolov 255.12 vs Dacres 242.9

Watch Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley 2 on DAZN

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Sebastian Fundora vs Ermal Hadribeaj: Live Round-by-Round Updates and Results

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4 hours ago

October 17, 2026

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Sebastian Fundora vs Ermal Hadribeaj: Live Round-by-Round Updates and Results

Sebastian Fundora will return to action tonight, defending his WBC super welterweight title against Ermal Hadribaj in a main event that will air live on TNT as well as stream on DAZN.

Fundora has staked his claim as the top dog at 154 lbs right now, though there are other, potentially tougher challenges than Hadribeaj, but the challenger has his chance tonight, and he’ll look to make it count.

UPDATE (2:35 pm ET): The fight between Brandon Figueroa and Tomoki Kameda has been officially canceled. Figueroa lost his WBA featherweight title on the scales yesterday, then fell ill overnight.

Wil Esco will lead the live coverage this evening, with live results and updates for the two main card undercard bouts, then round-by-round results and updates for the main event. Join us!