Hello and welcome to Wembley Stadium for tonight’s all-British heavyweight title fight between Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua. A post-war-record crowd of about 96,000 is expected for this highly anticipated scrap for the IBF’s version of the heavyweight championship which until recently was owned by Oleksandr Usyk, who unified the long-fractured title in boxing’s prestige division by defeating Tyson Fury in May. Owing to the sport’s broken mandatory challenger system, the title was vacated by Usyk and essentially emailed to Dubois, who will defend it tonight against Joshua, who’s already lost to Usyk twice.

If you’re confused you’re not alone. But all alphabet soup shenanigans aside, we’ve got a heck of a scrap in the offing and lots to look forward to.

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