{"id":6975,"date":"2025-07-19T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6975\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:47:11","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-knocks-out-daniel-dubois-to-become-undisputed-heavyweight-boxing-champion-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6975\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Daniel Dubois to become undisputed heavyweight boxing champion again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the second time Usyk<\/a>, 38, had defeated Dubois, 27, following a ninth-round stoppage success in Krakow, Poland, in 2023, where the Briton was ruled to have landed an illegal low blow in the fifth round.<\/p>\n

Lennox Lewis, the last British boxer to be undisputed world champion in 1999, forecast before Sunday\u2019s fight that Usyk would face a vastly-improved Dubois, saying: \u201cDubois was a baby in the sport and now he\u2019s a man…You\u2019re not going to see the same Daniel Dubois from 18 months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

But after Usyk was roared into the ring by a huge contingent of supporters, many of them waving Ukraine national flags in a 90,000 capacity crowd at Wembley, best known as the London base of England\u2019s national football team, it was largely one-way traffic as their hero conducted a ruthless masterclass against local favourite Dubois.<\/p>\n

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\u201c38 is a young guy, remember,\u201d Usyk told DAZN in the ring after dropping to his knees in celebration. \u201c38 is only [the] start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say thank you to Jesus Christ. I want to say thank you to my team and Wembley, thank you so much. It\u2019s for the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is next. It\u2019s enough, next, I don\u2019t know. I want to rest. My family, my wife, my children, I want to rest now. Two or three months, I want to just rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about his next opponent Usyk, who has already twice beaten former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, added: \u201cMaybe it\u2019s Tyson Fury. Maybe we have three choices, Derek Chisora and Anthony Joshua. Maybe Joseph Parker. Listen, I cannot now say because I want to go back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dubois insisted he would return to the ring, saying: \u201cI have to commend him (Usyk) on the performance, I gave everything I had. Take no credit away from that man, I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the second time Usyk, 38, had defeated Dubois, 27, following a ninth-round stoppage success in Krakow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8814,64,63,8810,5975,802,8815,8813,788,7503,8819,8820,8818,8812,2990,8809,8822,7501,1927,8817,85,8824,8816,8825,1928,8821,319,8811,7502,8823,3605,1720],"class_list":["post-6975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-again","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-become","tag-bout","tag-boxing","tag-cemented","tag-champion","tag-daniel","tag-dubois","tag-emphatic","tag-fifthround","tag-generation","tag-heavyweight","tag-knockout","tag-knocks","tag-londons","tag-oleksandr","tag-out","tag-outstanding","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-status","tag-sunday","tag-their","tag-title","tag-to","tag-undisputed","tag-usyk","tag-wembley","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975","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=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}