{"id":1840,"date":"2025-07-20T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/usyk-knocks-out-dubois-in-fifth-to-unify-heavyweight-boxing-belts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:40:39","slug":"usyk-knocks-out-dubois-in-fifth-to-unify-heavyweight-boxing-belts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/usyk-knocks-out-dubois-in-fifth-to-unify-heavyweight-boxing-belts\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk knocks out Dubois in fifth to unify heavyweight boxing belts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Daniel Dubois of United Kingdom to unify the heavyweight title belts in London.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oleksandr Usyk has cemented his status as the outstanding heavyweight of his generation with an emphatic fifth-round knockout<\/a> of Daniel Dubois in their undisputed world title bout at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n

Victory on Saturday saw Ukraine\u2019s Usyk extend his unbeaten professional record to 24 fights as the WBA, WBC and WBO champion added his British opponent\u2019s IBF belt to his collection.<\/p>\n

Usyk dominated the opening four rounds and early in the fifth, dropped Dubois to the canvas.<\/p>\n

Moments later, he finished the fight in decisive fashion after a trademark left hook left his British rival unable to beat the count one minute and 52 seconds into the round.<\/p>\n

\"Oleksandr
Oleksandr Usyk knocks down Daniel Dubois and wins the fight [Andrew Couldridge\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was the second time Usyk, at 38, some 11 years older than his opponent, had defeated Dubois after 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 the undisputed world champion in 1999, forecast before Saturday\u2019s fight that Usyk would face a vastly-improved Dubois, saying: \u201cDubois was a baby in the sport and now he\u2019s a man\u2026You\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\u2019s national flag 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

\u201cThirty-eight is a young guy, remember,\u201d Usyk told DAZN in the ring after dropping to his knees in celebration. \u201cThirty-eight 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

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The UK\u2019s Daniel Dubois takes a punch from Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk towards the end of the fight [Adrian Dennis\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Asked about his next opponent, Usyk, who has already twice beaten former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, added: \u201cMaybe it\u2019s Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe 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

\"Daniel
Daniel Dubois after being knocked down by Oleksandr Usyk [Richard Pelham\/Getty Images]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk knocks out Daniel Dubois of United Kingdom to unify the heavyweight title belts in London. Oleksandr Usyk has cemented his status as the outstanding heavyweight of his generation with an emphatic fifth-round knockout of Daniel Dubois in their undisputed world title bout at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium. Victory on Saturday saw Ukraine\u2019s Usyk … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}