Daniel Dubois v Filip Hrgović and Deontay Wilder v Zhilei Zhang: heavyweight boxing – live | Boxing

Hello and welcome to the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh for our detailed coverage of Deontay Wilder-Zhilei Zhang and Daniel Dubois-Filip Hrgovićseveral compelling heavyweight bouts that will help shape both the short-term and long-term future of boxing’s glamorous division.

These are the final two fights on a stacked card called “5 vs. 5: Matchroom vs. Queensberry,” where top British promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren, once bitter rivals, put their respective stables on the line for bragging rights and a reported $3 million payday in addition to the fighters’ individual (and undisclosed) wallets.

According to the rules of the format, each boxer will earn one point for a decision victory or two for a knockout with no points awarded in the event of a draw. The team captains – that’s Wilder for Matchroom and Sheeraz for Queensbury – will double their individual points. The team with the most total points wins. A small score error in the upper left corner of the telecast tracks the current score all night. (We’d venture to guess it’s pretty meaningless to all but the most hardcore British fight fans, but a rare team concept, perhaps the most individual of sports, is nothing short of a conversation starter.)

Queensbury currently walks the Matchroom with a 6-0 margin with the two feature attractions. Here are the fight-by-fight results so far:

• Willie Hutchinson UD 12 Craig Richards QB 1-0 MR (QB 1-0 MR)

• Nick Ball SD 12 Raymond Ford QB 1-0 MR (QB 2-0 MR)

• Hamza Sheeraz TKO 11 Austin Williams QB 4-0 MR (QB 6-0 MR)

We have one more battle coming up that isn’t part of the 5v5 competition (more on that in a bit). Then it’s Dubois vs. Hrgovic and Wilder vs. Gian, in that order.