Dillyan Whyte (27-2, 18 KOs) attempts to avenge the devastating knockout loss he suffered to Alexander Povetkin (36-2-1, 25 KOs) and to reposition himself for a big money fight on Saturday in Gibraltar.
In their first meeting last August, Whyte sent Povetkin to the canvas twice in the fourth round but got brutally laid out by a left uppercut in the fifth. Numerous questions surround the rematch, as Povetkin suffered from covid 19 which led to two hospital stints and caused the rematch, originally planned for November, to be postponed twice. Povetkin will turn 42 this year and is already at an age where a fighter can fall off a cliff from one fight to the next.