Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will meet tonight in the main event in the undisputed heavyweight championship on DAZN PPV, ESPN PPV and PPV. com at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arena. The event begins at 12 noon in the U.S. The price is $69.99.
Fury vs. Usyk Clash start time tonight on May 18
The ringwalks for Fury-Usyk are approx at 6:05 p.m. ET / 11:05 p.m. in the UK.
Fury-Usyk event begins at 12:00 ET / 5:00 p.m. UK.
Boxing News 24 will be giving live updates below of tonight’s action for Fury vs. Usyk event.
Lanky 6’4″ light heavyweight prospect Daniel Lapin (9-0, 4 KOs) stopped Octavio Pudivitr (9-2, 4 KOs) in the first round. The thinly built southpaw Lapin, 26, connected with a jab to the head of Pudivitr, causing him to retreat to the ropes.
Lapin then connected with several shots with Pudvitr that sent him to the canvas. While Pudivitr, 36, was down, Lapin hit him three more times in the head.
The referee then waved it off. The time of the stoppage was at 1:47 of round one. It appeared that Pudivtr suffered a right eye injury.
Featherweight Isaac Lowe (25-2-3, 8 KOs) dominated Hasibullah Ahmadi (16-2, 5 KOs), winning a ten-round points decision. The score was 97-92. Lowe dropped the 23-year-old Ahmadi with a beautiful left hook to the head in round eight.
Somehow, Ahmadi made it out of the round without getting dropped again, but he was in bad shape when the round was over, staggering back to his corner. In the final two rounds, Ahmadi did a good job of tying Lowe up to keep from getting knocked out.
Complete Card DAZN PPV, ESPN+ PPV & PPV.com, at 12:00 ET
Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk
Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Briedis
Joe Cordina vs. Anthony Cacace
Frank Sanchez vs. Agit Kabayel
Moses Itauma vs. Ilja Mezencev
Mark Chamberlain vs Joshua Wahab
Sergey Kovalev vs. Robin Sirwan Safar
WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) will be trying to show that he’s not washed up as he appeared in his last two fights, but it’s a tough ask going up against IBF/WBA/WBO champ Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs).
The talent and the pedigree are firmly on the side of the ambitious go-getter Usyk, who has done a lot more in his career than Fury, who has played it safe mostly throughout his 16-year-old career save for his fight against Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
Fury will have a 39-lb weight and six-inch height advantage over Usyk, but that may not matter if he doesn’t fight better than he has in many years.
