| LONDON, 10 FEBRUARY 2025 – Queensberry Promotions (“Queensberry”), a leading boxing promotion company founded by Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren, can proudly reveal its bumper opening schedule with DAZN, the world’s leading sports entertainment platform, with the action starting with a heavyweight spectacular at the Co-op Live in Manchester on Saturday, April 5. The new Co-op Live will rock to the beat of the heavyweights when the popular former world title challenger Dillian Whyte (31-3, 28KOs) goes up against the “Juggernaut”, former interim WBO world title holder, Joe Joyce (16-3, 15KOs). In the co-main event, two-weight world champion and now WBC Silver heavyweight champion Lawrence Okolie (21-1, 16KOs) will take on his big London rival and world cruiserweight title challenger Richard Riakporhe (17-1, 13KOs). The heavyweight headline matchups are completed by English champion David Adeleye (13-1, 12KOs) facing Jeamie “TKV” Tshikeva (8-1, 5KOs) and Olympian Delicious Orie, who will be making his professional debut. From Manchester, the Queensberry fight train will head to the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on Saturday, May 10 and then Glasgow later in May. A month later in Nottingham, Anthony Cacace (23-1, 8KOs) will defend his IBO super featherweight world championship against local hero and former featherweight world champion Leigh Wood (28-3, 17KOs). Another Nottingham favourite, WBC International light heavyweight champion Ezra Taylor (10-0, 7 KOs), will be on the card. Then later in May in Glasgow, new Queensberry signing and former undisputed super lightweight world champion Josh Taylor (19-2, 13KOs) makes a move up to welterweight, as he takes on former British champion and current WBO European title holder Ekow Essuman (21-1, 8KOs). Also on the card, Edinburgh’s WBC International champion Lee McGregor (15-1-1, 11KOs) will face fellow Scot Nathaniel Collins (15-0). This trio of boxing events will be broadcast exclusively on DAZN, available to fans globally, as part of DAZN’s multi-year media rights deal with Queensberry. “We’ve assembled a bumper lineup of cracking fights to celebrate the start of our relationship with DAZN,” said Queensberry Promotions Founder and Chairman, Frank Warren. “We are starting as we mean to go on and, as you might expect, the heavyweights will play a big, big part in 2025 and beyond. Then Nottingham is the place to be the following month for a real banger of a fight between Anto Cacace and Leigh Wood. It is the sort of domestic blockbuster we will be seeing plenty of across the partnership between Queensberry and DAZN. I am also so much looking forward to returning to Scotland with the nation’s biggest star and our latest signing, Josh Taylor, headlining and rebooting his career at welterweight, where I believe he can again do big things, but he will be up against it with Ekow Essuman in the opposite corner.” Michael Ridout, EVP New Business at DAZN, said: “This schedule of fights will showcase the best of boxing talent across weight classes. As the global home of boxing, DAZN is committed to bringing the most exciting and nail-biting fights like these to fans around the world who love the sport. This is only the start of DAZN’s landmark partnership with Queensberry, and we look for forward to delivering more high-calibre bouts, while providing an unparalleled viewing experience.” Download the fight Posters here! |