{"id":15677,"date":"2025-06-11T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usyk-v-dubois-lawrence-okolie-and-lewis-edmondson-added-to-undercard\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:23:53","slug":"usyk-v-dubois-lawrence-okolie-and-lewis-edmondson-added-to-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/usyk-v-dubois-lawrence-okolie-and-lewis-edmondson-added-to-undercard\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk v Dubois: Lawrence Okolie and Lewis Edmondson added to undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britons Lawrence Okolie and Lewis Edmondson have been added to the undercard of Daniel Dubois&#8217; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/clywx020g6wo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">undisputed world heavyweight title fight<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> with Oleksandr Usyk on 19 July at Wembley Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Okolie, 32, fights seasoned heavyweight contender Kevin Lerena while 29-year-old Edmondson faces Daniel Lapin at light-heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both contests will be over 12 rounds and are the first undercard bouts to be added to the Usyk-Dubois 2 undercard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Okolie continues his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ce328ewwqw1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">run at heavyweight<\/a> having moved up to the weight last December after being a world champion at cruiserweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Londoner must move quickly if he is prove himself a world title contender, with the heavyweight division stacked with impressive talent waiting for their shot at belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa&#8217;s Lerena, 33, has 31 wins and three losses in his career while Okolie has a 21-1 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubois aims to become the first British heavyweight to hold all four major world titles in the four-belt era, while Usyk aims to become undisputed heavyweight champion for the second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edmondson, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/czxgxrkvg0lo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Commonwealth and British light-heavyweight champion<\/a>, faces  Lapin with both undefeated in 11 fights. The Ukrainian often trains with Usyk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckgnez1l94wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britons Lawrence Okolie and Lewis Edmondson have been added to the undercard of Daniel Dubois&#8217; undisputed world heavyweight title fight with Oleksandr Usyk on 19 July at Wembley Stadium. Okolie, 32, fights seasoned heavyweight contender Kevin Lerena while 29-year-old Edmondson faces Daniel Lapin at light-heavyweight. Both contests will be over 12 rounds and are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15679,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15677\/revisions\/15679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}