K2 Promotions wins purse bid for Usyk vs. Dubois

Source: WBA

26/05/2023

K2 Promotions wins purse bid for Usyk vs. Dubois

K2 Promotions won a WBA purse bid for the promotional right to a heavyweight title between WBA / WBO / IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk of the Ukraine and WBA regular champion Daniel Dubois of the United Kingdom. The purse bid took place on Thursday, May 25th in Houston and was attended by WBA President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza and WBA Championship Committee Vice Chairman Julio Thyme. K2 Promotions, Usyk's promoter, was awarded the rights to promote the fight after making a winning bid of US $8,057,000. Also present at the bidding was Quensberry Promotions, which submitted a bid of US $5,620,050 on behalf of Dubois. K2 listed potential fight dates of August 8th in Manchester or Jeddah, Saudi Arabia or August 12th in Wroclaw, Poland.