Oleksandr Usyk vs Daniel Dubois LIVE: Boxing fight updates and results tonight

Czerkaszyn burrows a proper hook into the ribs of Ngamissengue, who fires again with a one-two up high.

Now the middleweights grapple in opposition to the ropes. Ngamissengue lands a stable hook as they separate and Czerkaszyn backs as much as the centre of the ring.

OH! And down goes Czerkaszyn! He’s on his bottom after a proper hand from Ngamissengue, however he’s rapidly again to his ft and assuring the referee that he’s okay. Let’s see about that…

Ngamissengue snaps his head again amid an onslaught of photographs, and Czerkaszyn hits the canvas once more!

He’s on his ft, and Ngamissengue seeks a end, marching ahead and bobbing his head backward and forward earlier than unloading punches.

Czerkaszyn makes it to the bell!

Second spherical of eight. Ngamissengue will get on the entrance foot early, pressuring Czerkaszyn.

Czerkaszyn unfurls a couple of counter hooks in a bid to discourage his opponent.

Ngamissengue has already reverted to an orthodox stance. He simply misses with an overhand proper.

Now Czerkaszyn peppers him with a sequence of brief, straight photographs, rising the depth on the finish of the flurry.

This time Ngamissengue lands the overhand proper, simply earlier than the bell!

Czerkaszyn stands orthodox; Ngamissengue is southpaw.

Ngamissengue will get behind a jab by throwing a cross to the physique. He and Czerkaszyn quickly tie up in a clinch.

There’s a good bit of that because the spherical goes on. Czerkaszyn simply misses with a one-two upstairs.

Ngamissengue steps in once more and this time goals his cross to the pinnacle of Czerkaszyn. It’s on the right track.

More grappling ensues. A pawing left hook by Czerkaszyn lands around the again of Ngamissengue’s head.

Czerkaszyn seems to remain gentle on his ft, whereas Ngamissengue mixes in some lateral motion as he comes ahead.

Alright, then! It’s time for our round-by-round fight updates!

We kick issues off with a middleweight bout between Fiodor Czerkaszyn and Anauel Ngamissengue.

Poland’s Czerkaszyn, additionally representing Ukraine, has knowledgeable document of 22-0 (14 KOs), and he’s all smiles as he makes his ring stroll.

French-Congolese Ngamissengue can also be unbeaten at 12-0 (8 KOs). He’s already within the ring.

In some regarding information late final night time…

It was revealed that Robert Helenius failed a pre-fight medication take a look at previous to his heavyweight fight with former world champion Anthony Joshua.

The 39-year-old Finn, knocked out by Joshua within the seventh spherical at London’s O2 Arena on 12 August, had stepped in as a late substitute for Dillian Whyte, who had failed a medicine take a look at himself.

Fight promoter Matchroom Boxing confirmed in an announcement on Twitter that Helenius had “returned an adverse analytical finding” after being voluntarily examined on 11 August.

When Usyk and his challenger got here nose to nose at a pre-fight press convention in July, Dubois vowed to unleash “hell”. Usyk, in the meantime, recited a poem and a rap. That might need foreshadowed the dynamic of this most important occasion reasonably properly: Dubois, as his coach Don Charles has admitted, should make this a chaotic affair. In distinction, Usyk will look to make use of his traditional artistry to undo his challenger and put Dubois himself by way of hell.

Agonised by the grave matter of warfare in his homeland and the extra trivial issue of frustration with Tyson Fury, Usyk might be riled up in Wroclaw. If any fighter can grasp that emotion and harness it correctly, it’s Usyk.

Dubois’s preparation for his fight with Usyk took a significant hit this week, when the Briton’s Ryanair flight to Poland was cancelled.

Dubois arrived in Wroclaw 24 hours later than deliberate after his flight from Stansted was amongst these cancelled on Sunday (20 August).

The 25-year-old was pressured to take a cab trip, costing £280, to Heathrow, the place he slept in an airport lodge earlier than flying by way of Dusseldorf on Monday morning.

“It was chaos when we got to Stansted,” Dubois advised reporters on Thursday (24 August). “Ryanair… for f***’s sake! There was an evacuation of the departures hall going on.

“People were screaming and fainting, and there were some fights going on. Mad, crazy. We had to get out. My dad for one couldn’t stand it.

“We were all tired when we got here, having missed a day’s preparations, but I got a good night’s sleep and back on track.”

The Ukrainian is an amazing favorite however we’ve discovered some various betting alternatives on the fight…

Usyk might be preventing nearer to his Kyiv residence than he has in eight years; the 36-year-old, keep in mind, gained his cruiserweight world titles on the street in Poland, Latvia and Russia. He defended the belts in opposition to native fighters in Germany, America and England. He is a boxing treasure, unbeaten now in 20 fights, an Olympic gold medalist, a volunteer within the Ukraine defence pressure. He may simply be altering the dictionary definition of ‘national idol’.

Dubois will lastly, for the primary time in his brief however intense boxing life, haven’t any strain on his shoulders. The 25-year-old will begin because the underdog for the primary time in 21 fights. He turned skilled in 2017 when he was only a wide-eyed teenager; his development was misleading, and he was made to really feel invincible in opposition to many males who had no probability. In 2020, there was a foul, dangerous night time behind closed doorways and underneath Covid restrictions.

The fight’s easy – however deceptive – narrative appears to be that Dubois has a puncher’s probability; properly, all heavyweights have a puncher’s probability. Anthony Joshua went 24 rounds with Usyk, and he most positively had a puncher’s probability. To beat Usyk, you want way over a puncher’s probability.

Full card (topic to late modifications):

Oleksandr Usyk (C) vs Daniel Dubois (WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles)

Denys Berinchyk vs Anthony Yigit (light-weight)

Daniel Lapin vs Aro Schwartz (light-heavyweight)

Fiodor Czerkaszyn vs Anauel Ngamissengue (middleweight)

Rafal Wolczecki vs Roberto Arriaza (middleweight)

Vasile Cebotari vs Joel Julio (welterweight)

Nursultan Amanzholov vs Lazizbek Mullojonov (heavyweight)

Oleksandr Solomennikov vs Piotr Gudel (featherweight)

Aadam Hamed vs TBA (super-welterweight)

Ziyad Almaayouf vs Janos Penzes (super-lightweight)

Bryce Mills vs Damian Tymosz (super-lightweight)

Yaroslav Khartsyz vs Konrad Czajkowski (light-weight)