World champion Dubois to face Parker in Saudi

Briton Daniel Dubois volition support his satellite heavyweight rubric against erstwhile champion Joseph Parker successful Saudi Arabia connected 22 February.

Dubois, 27, made a spectacular archetypal defence of his IBF loop by beating Anthony Joshua successful September.

New Zealand's Parker, 32, held the WBO rubric betwixt 2016 and 2018 earlier losing it to Joshua.

Also connected the paper successful Riyadh, Artur Beterbiev volition support his undisputed light-heavyweight crown successful a rematch with chap Russian Dmitry Bivol.

Undefeated Londoner Hamzah Sheeraz volition situation for his maiden satellite rubric against WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames.

Shakur Stevenson volition enactment his WBC lightweight loop connected the enactment against Floyd Schofield portion Zhilei Zhang faces Agit Kabayel for the interim WBC heavyweight rubric to implicit the blockbuster card.

Dubois captured the interim rubric with an awesome triumph implicit Filip Hrgovic past twelvemonth and was elevated to satellite champion erstwhile Oleksandr Usyk vacated the belt.

The Londoner legitimised himself arsenic a satellite champion erstwhile helium upset the likelihood by dismantling two-time champion Joshua wrong 5 rounds astatine Wembley Stadium.

Parker earns a rubric changeable aft a four-fight winning streak, including awesome wins implicit Deontay Wilder and Zhang successful his past 2 fights.

In October, Beterbiev defeated Bivol by bulk determination to go the archetypal undisputed light-heavyweight champion since 2002.

Many ringside observers felt Bivol, who suffered a archetypal vocation defeat, should person been awarded the decision.

Ilford-born Sheeraz, 25, has won each 21 pro bouts with 17 stoppages. He withdrew from an ordered combat against WBO champion Janibek Alimkhanuly to instrumentality connected Dominican Adames, who has mislaid erstwhile successful 25 bouts.

BBC Sport's Kal Sajad

Dubois is inactive riding the precocious of his destructive triumph implicit Joshua. He has go a confident, fearless puncher – thing similar the combatant who mislaid to Joe Joyce successful 2020 - and volition fancy his chances to decorativeness Parker wrong the distance.

If helium does that, helium sets up a lucrative rematch with Joshua oregon an undisputed contention against the victor of December's bout betwixt chap champion Usyk and Tyson Fury.

But marque nary mistake, Dubois is up against a unrecorded opponent. Parker has been reinvigorated by his link-up with trainer Andy Lee and is afloat deserving of different ace astatine satellite honours.

Saudi Arabia’s ever-growing power connected boxing is erstwhile again evident with a stacked card, including a 2nd bout betwixt 2 of the champion pound-for-pound stars successful Beterbiev and Bivol.

The lawsuit could beryllium a breakout nighttime for Sheeraz, who has each the tools to go a planetary boxing superstar. After a low-key amateur career, helium learned his commercialized connected the nonrecreational country and relocated to the United States.

He is an articulate and respectful quality who has the accidental to marque each that hard enactment and sacrifice wage off.