Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5 vs. 5 fights revealed

By Scott Shaffer

16/04/2024

Queensberry vs. Matchroom 5 vs. 5 fights revealed

At a press conference in London on Monday, the announcement for the underard upstaged the spectacular main event. Although the top of the bill is a four-belt, world light heavyweight championship unification bout between Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol, the big revela was the Queensberry vs. Matchroom five-on-five competition that will precede Beterbiev-Bivol. Those fiive fights, with the Queensberry boxer listed first are:

Daniel Dubois vs. Filip Hrgovic (this fight will likely be for the vacant IBF heavyweight title, which is slated to be vacated in the immediate aftermath of the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury four-belt, world heavyweight championship unification bout to be held on May 18th)... Zhilei Zhang vs. Deontay Wilder (although Wilder is not really with Matchroom, he will compete for the Matchroom team and was named the captain by promoter Eddie Hearn, meaning Wilder's points will count double)... Nick Ball vs. Ray Ford (at stake will be Ford's WBA world featherweight title)... Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams (this will be a battle of undefeated middleweights with Sheeraz serving as captain of the Queensberry team) and Willy Hutchinson vs. Craig ‘Spider’ Richard (light heavyweights).