Britain’s Joshua was outclassed by Ukrainian rival Usyk in their first fight at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September 2021, losing his world heavyweight titles in the process.
The pressure is on Anthony Joshua this weekend as he faces Oleksandr Usyk again in Jeddah.
Joshua was handily outpointed by the unbeaten Ukrainian in London last September, dropping the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles to Usyk in the process.
Usyk vs Joshua II Full card
Oleksandr Usyk (C) vs Anthony Joshua (heavyweight)
Filip Hrgovic vs Zhilei Zhang (heavyweight)
Callum Smith vs Mathieu Bauderlique (light-heavyweight)
Ben Whittaker vs Petar Nosic (light-heavyweight)
Ramla Ali vs Crystal Garcia Nova (women’s super-bantamweight)
Badou Jack vs Richard Rivera (cruiserweight)
Andrew Tabiti vs Tyrone Spong (heavyweight)
Daniel Lapinvs Jozef Jurko (light-heavyweight)
Ziyad Almaayouf vs Jose Alatorre (super-lightweight)
Event details
Date: Saturday, August 20
Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 18:00 CET
Main event ring walks (approx): 17:30 EST / 23:30 CET
The fight takes place at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia
The main card is scheduled to get underway at 12:00 pm EST / 18:00 CET with the main event ring walks being at 17:30 EST / 23:30 CET. These timings could change due to the length of the undercard bouts.