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Queensberry and DAZN announce huge opening schedule that includes major heavyweight show and former undisputed world champion
Queensberry Promotions and DAZN have revealed an incredible opening schedule to launch their new broadcast partnership, with mouthwatering heavyweight action getting things started.
The two companies agreed a deal in November 2024 for DAZN to become the home of all Queensbury fight nights, starting from April 2025. Now, the first bouts have been announced.
It begins on Saturday, April 5 at the Co-op Live in Manchester, as popular former world title challenger Dillian Whyte, 31-3, 28 KOs, goes up against the former interim WBO world title holder, Joe Joyce, 16-3, 15KOs.
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In the co-main event, two-weight world champion and current WBC Silver heavyweight champion Lawrence Okolie, 21-1, 16KOs, will take on his big London rival and world cruiserweight title challenger Richard Riakporhe, 17-1, 13KOs.
The heavyweight headline matchups are completed by English champion David Adeleye, 13-1, 12KOs, facing Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva, 8-1, 5KOs.
The stacked evening will also see Olympian Delicious Orie make his professional debut after signing for Frank Warren's team at the start of February.
Following that cracking night in Manchester, the Queensberry fight train heads to the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on Saturday, May 10.
Anthony Cacace, 23-1, 8KOs, will defend his IBO super featherweight world championship against local hero and former featherweight world champion Leigh Wood, 28-3, 17KOs.
Another Nottingham favourite, WBC International light heavyweight champion Ezra Taylor, 10-0, 7 KOs, will also be on the card.
Then later in May in Glasgow, new Queensberry signing and former undisputed super lightweight world champion Josh Taylor, 19-2, 13KOs, makes a move up to welterweight. He will take on former British champion and current WBO European title holder Ekow Essuman, 21-1, 8KOs.
The card will also see Edinburgh’s WBC International champion Lee McGregor, 15-1-1, 11KOs, face fellow Scot Nathaniel Collins, 15-0.
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This trio of boxing events will be broadcast exclusively on DAZN, available to fans globally, as part of DAZN’s multi-year media rights deal with Queensberry.
“We’ve assembled a bumper lineup of cracking fights to celebrate the start of our relationship with DAZN,” said Queensberry Promotions Founder and Chairman, Frank Warren.
“We are starting as we mean to go on and, as you might expect, the heavyweights will play a big, big part in 2025 and beyond.
"Then Nottingham is the place to be the following month for a real banger of a fight between Anto Cacace and Leigh Wood. It is the sort of domestic blockbuster we will be seeing plenty of across the partnership between Queensberry and DAZN.
"I am also so much looking forward to returning to Scotland with the nation’s biggest star and our latest signing, Josh Taylor, headlining and rebooting his career at welterweight, where I believe he can again do big things, but he will be up against it with Ekow Essuman in the opposite corner.”
Michael Ridout, EVP New Business at DAZN, said: “This schedule of fights will showcase the best of boxing talent across weight classes.
"As the global home of boxing, DAZN is committed to bringing the most exciting and nail-biting fights like these to fans around the world who love the sport.
"This is only the start of DAZN’s landmark partnership with Queensberry, and we look for forward to delivering more high-calibre bouts, while providing an unparalleled viewing experience.”
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