{"id":808314,"date":"2026-10-20T05:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808314\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:58:18","slug":"dubois-vs-wardley-2-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-after-dubois-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808314\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubois vs Wardley 2: What next for heavyweight division after Dubois win?"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Jarrell Miller remains highly ranked, while compatriots Jared Anderson and Richard Torrez Jr, an Olympic silver medallist, are rebuilding.<\/p>\n

New Zealand’s former world champion Joseph Parker is seeking a return after his provisional doping suspension was lifted<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Teremoana Teremoana has stopped all 12 professional opponents within two rounds, while Uzbekistan’s two-time Olympic champion Bakhodir Jalolov extended his unbeaten record by beating Solomon Dacres on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In Britain, Derek Chisora, 42, is considering another comeback and says he expects to face WBA ‘regular’ champion Gassiev in December.<\/p>\n

British champion Richard Riakporhe is pursuing world honours after moving up from cruiserweight, while former cruiserweight world champion Lawrence Okolie is targeting a return after reaching an agreement with the WBC over an adverse drugs test finding.<\/p>\n

David Adeleye, Dave Allen, Johnny Fisher and Frazer Clarke remain on the domestic scene, while Leo Atang, 19, and Ireland’s Adam Olaniyan, 20, are emerging talents.<\/p>\n

With Usyk, Fury and Joshua approaching the ends of their careers, the heavyweight division is entering a new era.<\/p>\n

There is no shortage of potential big fights, but bringing the champions together before mandatory obligations, rematches and boxing politics get in the way could prove the greatest challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Jarrell Miller remains highly ranked, while compatriots Jared Anderson and Richard Torrez Jr, an Olympic silver medallist,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808314","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\/808314","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=808314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}