- Heavyweights clash in blockbuster Saudi Arabia card
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Hello and welcome to Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena for today’s eagerly awaited heavyweight twin bill. Less than two months before Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will meet in Saudi Arabia to decide the division’s first undisputed champion since 1999, the former champions Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua are here to keep their names in the mix in boxing’s glamour weight class.
The 38-year-old Wilder, who held the WBC’s version of the heavyweight title from 2015 through 2020, has fought only twice since he was dethroned by Fury in the second chapter of their famous trilogy. But plenty of big-money fights await should he win today against Joseph Parker, the New Zealand native who held the WBO title from 2016 through 2018.