Boxing’s heavyweight division has never been healthier with big fights happening and the division getting an undisputed champion in 2024 – for the first time in a quarter of a century!
The fights that fans have craved for years are finally happening and there are some incredible showdowns coming up as we head deeper into 2025.
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Upcoming boxing fights: Heavyweights
Here is how the heavyweight division currently looks from a scheduling perspective:
Johnny Fisher (13-0) vs Dave Allen (23-7-2) 2
Date: Saturday May 17, 2025
Ring walks: 2200 UK, 2300 CET, 1700 Eastern, 1400 Pacific
Venue: London, England
TV: DAZN (UK and US)
Odds: 4/9 Fisher, 5/2 Allen, 18/1 Draw
‘The Romford Bull’ rematches Allen swiftly after their fascinating meeting on the Usyk vs Fury 2 undercard in Saudi Arabia in last 2024. Then it was Johnny who claimed a wafer-thin victory by split decision, but he had to survive the deepest of waters to have his hand raised. Allen was canny and smart and landed some telling blows to have Fisher in massive trouble at times. It was eminently watchable and we are looking forward to them running it back.
Moses Itauma (11-0) vs Mike Balogun (21-1)
Date: Saturday May 24, 2025
Ring walks: tbc
Venue: Glasgow, Scotland
TV: DAZN (UK and US)
Odds: 1/41 Itauma, 16/1 Balogun, 33/1 Draw
The brilliantly talented Itauma (11-0) is so good that every time a new fight is announced the boxing world breaks out into a huge smile of excitement. ‘Enriko’ puts his unbeaten record on the line next on the Josh Taylor vs Ekow Essuman DAZN card in Glasgow on May 24. His opponent will be former NFL linebacker Mike Balogun, who was once signed by the San Francisco 49ers. While his record looks impressive at first glance, the only time he faced somebody with true elite creds was a second-round loss to Russian Murat Gassiev in 2023. This should be another early night for Moses.
Fabio Wardley (18-0-1) vs Justis Huni (12-0)
Date: Saturday June 7, 2025
Ring walks: 2200 UK, 2300 CET, 1700 Eastern, 1400 Pacific
Venue: Ipswich, England
TV: DAZN (UK and US)
Odds: 2/7 Wardley, 3/1 Huni, 16/1 Draw
A fascinating scrap at Ipswich Town’s Portman Road stadium sees Wardley achieve his dream of fighting at the home of his favourite football team. He will now face Aussie star Hunis after the withdrawal of original opponent Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller. It’s a big night for the world-ranked Wardley and a big step up for the promising Huni. There is much on the line for both men.
Deontay Wilder (43-4-1) vs Tyrrell Herndon (24-5)
Date: Saturday June 27, 2025
Ring walks: 2300 EST, 2000 PST, 0400 UK (June 28), 0500 CET
Venue: Wichita, Kansas
TV: tbc
Odds: –
Many thought we had seen the last of Wilder when ‘The Bronze Bomber’ suffered that beatdown at the hands of Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang last June. That was Deontay’s fourth defeat in his last five fights – spanning over the last five years since his first loss to Tyson Fury in February 2020. It appears that at 38 the man from Tuscaloosa, Alabama is well and truly on the slide and age – in boxing as in all walks of life – waits for nobody. Wilder though is not done yet and will return to action against the 37-year-old journeyman Herndon in the unheralded surrounds of Wichita, Kansas in June. If he cannot get the job done very early here, surely the game is up for one of the most devastating punchers in heavyweight boxing history.
Oleksandr Usyk (23-0) vs Daniel Dubois (22-2) 2
Date: Saturday July 19, 2025
Ring walks: 2200 UK, 2300 CET, 1700 Eastern, 1400 Pacific
Venue: London, England
TV: DAZN (UK and US)
Odds: –
The big showdown is agreed and we will get a second undisputed world heavyweight champion in just over a year. Fourteen months on from winning all the belts with that epic defeat of Tyson Fury, Usyk gets another shot to unify them against Dubois at London’s Wembley Stadium. ‘Dynamite’ meanwhile, now the IBF king, gets a chance for revenge following that bitterly contested defeat by Usyk in Poland in the summer of 2023. It should be a fascinating clash of styles, the brilliance of Usyk against the sheer dynamite power of Dubois. And it will be for all of the heavyweight marbles.
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