Close<\/a>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.<\/p>\nMultiple Authors<\/p>\n
Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will be back in action April 4 when he faces Derek Chisora at O2 Arena in London, it was announced Friday.<\/p>\n
The fight will headline the first Misfits Pro event and stream live on DAZN.<\/p>\n
Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) will look to collect his second consecutive win after falling on rough times from 2020 to 2024 where he went 1-4 after starting his career 42-0-1. Wilder lost by knockout in back-to-back fights against Tyson Fury, picked up a knockout win over Robert Helenius and dropped another pair of fights to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang before knocking out Tyrrell Herndon in June.<\/p>\n
Wilder, 40, will return to the United Kingdom for the first time in 12 years. The last time he fought in England was against Audley Harrison in 2013.<\/p>\n
“The Bronze Bomber” will face former title contender Chisora (36-13, 23 KOs). Chisora has won three consecutive fights against Gerald Washington, Joe Joyce and Otto Wallin since losing by knockout to then-WBC heavyweight champion Fury in 2022. Chisora, 42, has faced some of the best heavyweights of this generation with fights against Oleksandr Usyk, Joseph Parker, Dillian Whyte and Vitali Klitschko.<\/p>\n
There were rumors that Wilder was lining up a fight with Usyk but he will now headline Misfits Boxing’s first professional boxing event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleJan 31, 2026, 11:15 AM CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-448546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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