Daniel Dubois to defend WBA heavyweight title on Fury-Chisora III undercard at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Daniel Dubois is set to defend his WBA heavyweight title at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on December 3. His fight against South Africa’s Kevin Lerena will be chief support to Tyson Fury’s third meeting with Dereck Chisora.
Fury claims he wants to face Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship in the first part of 2023.
But first he will make another defence of his WBC belt on UK soil, following his April knockout of mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte, from Brixton, in front of 94,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.
Greenwich’s Dubois (18-1, 17 KOs) seized his world title belt in June when he travelled to Miami and demolished Trevor Bryan, inflicting a first defeat on the American via a fourth-round stoppage.
Lerena (28-1, 14 KOs), 30, is a recent addition to the heavyweight ranks, having made six defences of the IBO world cruiserweight title, which is not seen as one of the major governing bodies.
At heavyweight he has recorded victories over Patrick Ferguson, Bogdan Dinu and Mariusz Wach, winning the WBA and IBO Intercontinental titles in the process, but looks to not possess either the size or attributes to majorly test Dubois.
Promoter Frank Warren said: “It makes it a real heavyweight night and Daniel represents the best of the new generation coming through.”
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