- Zhang sends Wilder into likely retirement with fifth-round KO
- Dubois stops Hrgović by TKO for interim heavyweight title
- Liverpool’s Ball captures WBA featherweight championship
- Zhang knocks out Wilder, Dubois stops Hrgović – as it happened
Deontay Wilder’s career as an elite heavyweight came to a crashing end. For Daniel Dubois, the journey into the top flight is only just beginning. And the unceasing round-and-round of boxing’s glamour division turned in dramatic fashion early Sunday morning in the an-Nafud desert.
Wilder, who held the WBC’s version of the heavyweight title from 2015 through 2020, suffered a brutal fifth-round knockout at the hands of Zhilei Zhang in the main event of a joint Matchroom-Queenbury card that pitted the stables of British boxing’s leading promoters against one another.