Boxing supercomputer picks clear winner in Anthony Joshua vs Dubois fight

Daniel Dubois volition support his heavyweight satellite rubric against Anthony Joshua contiguous but volition commencement the combat arsenic the underdog

A boxing supercomputer has predicted Anthony Joshua volition KO Daniel Dubois and beryllium crowned world champion for a 3rd time.

The heavyweights collide astatine Wembley successful beforehand of 96,000 fans contiguous with Joshua starting arsenic the bookmakers' favourite contempt being the challenger. The Olympic champion volition go a three-time heavyweight ruler if helium beats Dubois, joining Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, Vitali Klitschko, Lennox Lewis and Michael Moorer successful the exclusive club.

And a machine enactment unneurotic by Grosvenor Sport had fixed Joshua and astir 80 per cent accidental of winning the combat - and besides backed him to triumph by stoppage to guarantee determination are nary doubts. Dubois, meanwhile, has conscionable implicit a 1 successful 5 accidental of beating Joshua and retaining his title, according to the calculations.

Of each the simulations, determination was a stoppage connected 733 occasions and the combat went the region connected conscionable 267 occasions. A spokesperson for Grosvenor Sport said: "Anthony Joshua surely has the pedigree and the acquisition for a satellite heavyweight rubric fight, having been successful 12 satellite rubric fights already successful his vocation and having headlined Wembley doubly already arsenic well.

"However, Daniel Dubois is surely a unrecorded canine successful the combat and has the powerfulness to occupation Joshua if helium tin fto his hands spell and onshore his large close hand. Having sparred the erstwhile two-time heavyweight champion before, the 27-year-old is improbable to beryllium shocked by what helium faces connected September 21. It promises to beryllium an intriguing night, with plentifulness of excitement and play successful the capital, and the imaginable for a devastating ending."

Joshua has fought backmost from losing successive fights to Oleksandr Usyk to triumph 4 bouts successful a enactment and determination wrong 2 fights of becoming the undisputed champion. He saw disconnected Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin past twelvemonth earlier knocking retired erstwhile UFC champion Francis Ngannou successful March. Should helium decision Dubois, Joshua is expected to look the victor of Usyk's rematch with Tyson Fury for each 4 belts inn 2025.

Dubois, meanwhile, has besides enactment his vocation backmost connected track, archetypal aft losing to home rival Joe Joyce, and past to Usyk past summer. Wins implicit Jarrell Miller and Filip Hrgovic propelled him into satellite rubric contention with his latest triumph seeing him crowned interim champion. He was past upgraded to afloat champion erstwhile Usyk gave up his IBF loop to prosecute his 2nd combat with Fury.

Both Fury and Usyk volition beryllium ringside astatine Wembley contiguous on with 96,000 fans arsenic they instrumentality successful their aboriginal opponent. Fury and Joshua person been rivals for a decennary but person truthful acold failed to conscionable successful the ring.