WBA ordered Usyk-Dubois during the Convention
WBA Super champ Oleksandr Usyk given 12 months (September 2023) to fulfill mandatory title defence to Daniel Dubois
The World Boxing Association (WBA), through its Championships Committee, ordered the mandatory heavyweight bout between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois during the Centennial Convention in Orlando, this Monday, December 11.
The Championships Committee had its customary meeting, in which it made several important decisions, and one of them was just this showdown between the two heavyweight champions that follows to the letter the World Title Reduction Plan.
Usyk’s period to make his fight mandatory is 12 months and the Ukrainian monarch won the title last September 25, 2021. That means that his period expired this September 24, 2022 and now he must fight Dubois in defense of his black and gold belt.
Both will have 30 days to negotiate the fight from this December 12, which was ordered until next January 30. If the parties do not reach an agreement on the estimated date or either side refuses to do so, the WBA will send the fight to purse bid under the rules of the pioneer body.
Dmitry Bivol was as announced WBA Boxer of the Year 2022 at the Annual Convention and Nottingham's Leigh Wood became the only featherweight world champion with the World Boxing Association after Super Champion, Leo Santa Cruz, relinquished the title on Monday, December 11, the same day the purse bid between the pair was was scheduled to take place.
