Dillian Whyte set to fight Joe Joyce with ex-British cruiserweights moving up to heavyweight for huge undercard fight

DILLIAN WHYTE is acceptable to combat Joe Joyce with a large heavyweight grudge bout landing connected the undercard.

Whyte bushed Christian Hammer and Ebenezer Tetteh past twelvemonth successful his 2 comeback bouts.

It came aft helium was pulled retired of rematching Anthony Joshua - who helium mislaid to successful 2015 - following an "an adverse finding" in his cause test.

He bushed Hammer successful Ireland and Tetteh successful Gibraltar and it remains to beryllium seen whether helium volition use for a British Boxing Board of Control licence.

A study from Sky Sports said documentation from a forensic adept concluded that a nutritional supplement taken by Whyte did not disclose each of its ingredients and included a prohibited substance.

Joyce meantime was doubly stopped by Zhilei Zhang, 41, successful 2023 earlier knocking retired Kash Ali, 33, successful his instrumentality past March.

But helium was beaten by Derek Chisora, 41, successful July to permission his vocation hanging successful the balance.

Joyce insisted helium would combat connected and according to Uncrowned, helium volition look Whyte, 36, adjacent connected April 5 successful astatine Manchester's Co-op Live Arena.

It volition kickstart Frank Warren's DAZN docket pursuing his departure from TNT Sports.

On the undercard is expected to beryllium different all-British matter betwixt Lawrence Okolie and Richard Riakporhe.

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Okolie, 32, held the WBO cruiserweight rubric earlier moving up knocking retired Hussein Muhamed in his heavyweight debut successful December.

Riakporhe, 35, heads to heavyweight disconnected the backmost of decision to Chris Billam-Smith, 34, for the WBO loop successful June.

The Londoner and Okolie person history, erstwhile clashing astatine the Creed III premiere successful February 2023.