{"id":496967,"date":"2026-03-26T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:08:18","slug":"boxing-wilder-vs-chisora-wardley-vs-dubois-and-itauma-vs-franklin-to-be-broadcast-on-bbc-radio-5-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496967\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Wilder vs Chisora, Wardley vs Dubois and Itauma vs Franklin to be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses Itauma v Jermaine Franklin, Deontay Wilder v Derek Chisora and Fabio Wardley v Daniel Dubois will all be broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n

Itauma’s fight with Franklin on Saturday in Manchester will kick off the heavyweight streak on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

Wilder and Chisora collide<\/a> in London on 4 April before Wardley defends his WBO heavyweight world title<\/a> against Dubois on 9 May in Manchester.<\/p>\n

There will be live text commentary of each fight night on the BBC Sport website and app, with video highlights available the next day.<\/p>\n

Itauma defends his unbeaten and electric start to his professional career<\/a> at Co-op Live arena as he takes on experienced operator Franklin.<\/p>\n

The American has just two defeats on his record – to Dillian Whyte and Anthony Joshua – and comes into the contest off the back of a big upset win over Ivan Dychko in September.<\/p>\n

Wilder v Chisora at the O2 Arena is part of a packed weekend of boxing action on the BBC, with Lauren Price defending her welterweight world titles<\/a> against Stephanie Pineiro in Wales on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

The main events for both fight nights will not clash, and you will be able to follow all the action from both events on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n

Wilder and Chisora are both fighting in their 50th bout and, despite promising to retire before, Chisora has insisted he will hang up his gloves whether he wins or loses.<\/p>\n

Wardley and Dubois bring an all-British world title fight to Manchester’s Co-op Live arena.<\/p>\n

Londoner Dubois is aiming to become a two-time heavyweight world champion while Ipswich’s Wardley remains unbeaten in 21 bouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moses Itauma v Jermaine Franklin, Deontay Wilder v Derek Chisora and Fabio Wardley v Daniel Dubois will all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}