Overview
- Sky Sports reports Fabio Wardley is finalising a first WBO defence against Daniel Dubois on May 9.
- ESPN cites sources that a deal is close and that Manchester is the expected host city.
- talkSPORT says organisers have shortlisted London’s O2 and Manchester’s Co-op Live as venue options.
- Promoter Frank Warren says Wardley will fight in early May and describes the matchup as one he wants to make.
- Wardley became WBO champion after Oleksandr Usyk vacated the title, Derek Chisora is unavailable due to an April fight with Deontay Wilder, and Dubois has reunited with trainer Don Charles.