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Dillian Whyte faces Joe Joyce in April & Anthony Cacace to fight Leigh Wood in May

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Britons Dillian Whyte and Joe Joyce will headline a heavyweight-stacked card at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena on Saturday, 5 April.

Olympian Delicious Orie will make his professional debut and former cruiserweight world champion Lawrence Okolie will take on Richard Riakporhe, who also moves up to heavyweight.

In another date on Queensberry Promotions’ schedule, Belfast super-featherweight Anthony Cacace will face Leigh Wood in a battle between two former world champions at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on 10 May.

Later that month, former undisputed light-welterweight champion Josh Taylor will move to welterweight to challenge WBO European title holder Ekow Essuman in Glasgow.

Scotsman Taylor has signed with promoter Frank Warren’s stable for his first fight since losing a rematch to Jack Catterall in May 2024.

The April card will be the first Queensberry Promotions event shown on streaming platform Dazn, as part of a new multi-year deal.

“We are starting as we mean to go on and, as you might expect, the heavyweights will play a big, big part in 2025 and beyond,” Warren said.

“I am also so much looking forward to returning to Scotland with the nation’s biggest star and our latest signing, Josh Taylor, headlining and rebooting his career at welterweight, where I believe he can again do big things.”

Fighters from the three upcoming events will meet at a news conference at the Co-op Live Arena later on Monday, joined by Queensberry boss Warren.


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