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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.<\/b><\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Later that month, former undisputed light-welterweight champion Josh Taylor will move to welterweight to challenge WBO European title holder Ekow Essuman in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Scotsman Taylor has signed with promoter Frank Warren’s stable for his first fight since losing a rematch to Jack Catterall<\/a> in May 2024.<\/p>\n The April card will be the first Queensberry Promotions event shown on streaming platform Dazn, as part of a new multi-year deal.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n