Joshua begins talks to fight Dubois in September

Heavyweight Anthony Joshua has begun talks to conflict chap Briton Daniel Dubois successful September.

Joshua, 34, is expected to conflict astatine Wembley Stadium connected 21 September and was ringside to watch Dubois hit Filip Hrgovic past Saturday successful Saudi Arabia.

Dubois’ promoter Frank Warren confirmed talks were nether way.

Dubois, 26, stopped Hrgovic successful their IBF ‘interim’ title fight, putting himself successful premier position to beryllium called arsenic nan adjacent mandatory challenger to Oleksandr Usyk.

Ukrainian Usyk has requested his IBF loop not beryllium stripped truthful nan undisputed title tin stay connected nan statement erstwhile he fights Tyson Fury successful their rematch connected 21 December.

If nan IBF decides to portion Usyk, Dubois could beryllium elevated to world champion and that could past make a conflict pinch Joshua a title bout.

Joshua is connected a four-fight winning streak and is already a two-time unified world champion.

After losing those world titles successful successive defeats by Usyk, Joshua has rebuilt himself successful good fashion, producing 3 stoppages successful his 4 wins.

Dubois excessively has been connected nan comeback way pinch 2 wins since failing successful his ain bid to dethrone Usyk successful August 2023.

The Londoner stopped Jarrell Miller and Hrgovic, nan second being a conflict Dubois was an underdog in.