Daniel Dubois set to face Oleksandr Usyk in Poland as rival’s promoter wins purse bid to stage world heavyweight title clash

Daniel Dubois is set to have to travel to foreign soil in his bid to unseat unified world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.

The Greenwich puncher is the WBA’s mandatory challenger and purse bids were recently tabled to stage the bout.

Usyk’s promoter Alex Krassyuk has announced they won that process and the showdown is set to take place in Wroclaw, Poland on August 12.

Usyk will also put his IBF and WBO belts on the line.

Reports have claimed that Dubois will be paid in the region of £2million for his title challenge.

The South Londoner, 25, has been carefully matched since quitting with major eye damage against Joe Joyce in November 2020.

Dubois (19-1, 18KOs) won the WBA’s regulation world title – Usyk is the governing body’s super champion – with an easy blowout of a woeful Trevor Bryan in Miami last summer.

He then blamed a leg injury for going down three times in the first round against Kevin Lerena at the end of the year. A stronger and more ambitious opponent would surely have gone on to win but the challenger, a huge underdog, was halted in the third round.

Usyk (20-0, 13KOs) is a top-level operator who excelled in the amateur ranks before becoming unified cruiserweight champion.

The 36-year-old picked up a major smattering of the world heavyweight titles when he won a unanimous decision over Anthony Joshua in 2021 and then claimed a split decision in their rematch.