{"id":36380,"date":"2026-10-18T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubois-vs-wardley-2-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-after-dubois-win\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:28:08","slug":"dubois-vs-wardley-2-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-after-dubois-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubois-vs-wardley-2-what-next-for-heavyweight-division-after-dubois-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubois vs Wardley 2: What next for heavyweight division after Dubois win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Jarrell Miller remains highly ranked, while compatriots Jared Anderson and Richard Torrez Jr, an Olympic silver medallist, are rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand&#8217;s former world champion Joseph Parker is seeking a return after his provisional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckg697k6570o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">doping suspension was lifted<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Teremoana Teremoana has stopped all 12 professional opponents within two rounds, while Uzbekistan&#8217;s two-time Olympic champion Bakhodir Jalolov extended his unbeaten record by beating Solomon Dacres on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Britain, Derek Chisora, 42, is considering another comeback and says he expects to face WBA &#8216;regular&#8217; champion Gassiev in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British champion Richard Riakporhe is pursuing world honours after moving up from cruiserweight, while former cruiserweight world champion Lawrence Okolie is targeting a return after reaching an agreement with the WBC over an adverse drugs test finding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Adeleye, Dave Allen, Johnny Fisher and Frazer Clarke remain on the domestic scene, while Leo Atang, 19, and Ireland&#8217;s Adam Olaniyan, 20, are emerging talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Usyk, Fury and Joshua approaching the ends of their careers, the heavyweight division is entering a new era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no shortage of potential big fights, but bringing the champions together before mandatory obligations, rematches and boxing politics get in the way could prove the greatest challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ck3r59ywz99ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Jarrell Miller remains highly ranked, while compatriots Jared Anderson and Richard Torrez Jr, an Olympic silver medallist, are rebuilding. New Zealand&#8217;s former world champion Joseph Parker is seeking a return after his provisional doping suspension was lifted in August. Australia&#8217;s Teremoana Teremoana has stopped all 12 professional opponents within two rounds, while Uzbekistan&#8217;s two-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36380","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\/36380","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=36380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36382,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36380\/revisions\/36382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}