Joshua has been work­ing with train­er Ben Dav­is­on ahead of this fight and while that may prove to be a pos­it­ive, the pair have only had mat­ter of weeks togeth­er and it remains to be seen how much can be changed in such a short peri­od of time. UK view­ers can pur­chase the PPV fight and join the DAZN instal­ment plan for a first month’s sub­scrip­tion for £20, or pay £24.99 for the fight and a monthly flex sub­scrip­tion. Ser­hii Bohachuk (24−2 – 23KOs) will face Ish­mael Dav­ies (13−1 – 6KOs) in the chief sup­port for this event after Bohachuk’s ini­tial oppon­ent, Israil Mad­rimov with­drew from the bout. Oleksandr Usyk (22−0 – 14 KOs) will look to cement his place as the world’s best heavy­weight when he meets Tyson Fury ( – 24 KOs) in a rematch in Saudi Arabia.

• As was the case with his two fights earli­er this year, Joshua knows defeat would effect­ively end any hopes he has of reach­ing the sum­mit of the heavy­weight divi­sion again.
• Wilder fights Park­er in a bout between two former world cham­pi­ons, with the win­ner of that leav­ing them­selves in pole pos­i­tion to chal­lenge at the top of the divi­sion next year.
• We have high­lighted our bet bets at the top of this page but read on for a remind­er and a more detailed run­down of each.
• Even with the stakes so high, the hope is that Joshua can pro­duce a more decis­ive, aggress­ive per­form­ance against Wallin.

How to watch Joyce vs Parker

We have high­lighted our bet bets at the top of this page but read on for a remind­er and a more detailed run­down of each. Heavy­weight stars Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will meet for the second time when they battle to be the best heavy­weight on the plant. The IBF belt is expec­ted to become vacant should there be a rematch between those two, and vic­tory over Wal­lin would leave Joshua in a strong pos­i­tion to fight Filip Hrgov­ic, also in action tonight, for the title should the Wilder bout not materialise.

Time is of the essence for the undefeated Joyce (14−0), who turned 37 this week and needs to kick on once again if he is to real­ise his long-held world cham­pi­on­ship ambi­tion. He is unlikely to have the power to really trouble Joshua though, who can set the stage for a string of big fights next year even if he does not become the first man to stop Wal­lin. Even with the stakes so high, the hope is that Joshua can pro­duce a more decis­ive, aggress­ive per­form­ance against Wal­lin. He was largely tim­id against Frank­lin and there was more of that appre­hen­sion against Hel­eni­us before an explos­ive fin­ish even­tu­ally came. Daniel Dubois returns to the ring for the first time since he was beaten by OIek­sandr Usyk in August as he takes on Jar­rell Miller, who failed drugs tests ahead of his planned bout with Joshua in 2019.

Uni­fied cham­pi­on Ser­rano is in pos­ses­sion of the WBC, WBO and IBO feather­weight titles, while Mah­foud holds the IBF ver­sion at 126lbs. Park­er fol­lowed that up with anoth­er loss to Dillian Whyte but has rattled off six wins since then, becom­ing WBO Ori­ent­al and Inter-Con­tin­ent­al cham­pi­on, defeat­ing Derek Chisora twice in the span of sev­en months in Manchester last year. Wal­lin is a dur­able fight­er, as Fury found out, and can be expec­ted to grow in con­fid­ence should he sense any hes­it­a­tion from the oth­er side of the ring.

Joshua vs Wallin betting odds

The Brit­ish fight­er spent much of the build-up to his first fight with Andy Ruiz in 2019 being asked about Wilder, and duly went on to lose to the Mex­ic­an. As was the case with his two fights earli­er this year, Joshua knows defeat would effect­ively end any hopes he has of reach­ing the sum­mit of the heavy­weight divi­sion again. Chief sup­port in Manchester on Sat­urday comes in the form of Aman­da Ser­rano, who will look to bounce back from her close, his­tor­ic defeat by undis­puted women’s light­weight cham­pi­on Katie Taylor at Madis­on Square Garden as she battles Sarah Mah­foud. A bout with Wilder is once again on the hori­zon, this time closer than ever before, but Joshua’s full focus must be on Sat­urday night. There is also the pro­spect usyk vs dubois 2 bet­ting odds of becom­ing a three-time world cham­pi­on to motiv­ate Joshua head­ing into 2024, with the heavy­weight belts likely to be frag­men­ted after Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk’s undis­puted show­down in Feb­ru­ary. Anthony Joshua has to end 2023 by mak­ing a major state­ment as he head­lines a huge night of heavy­weight box­ing against Otto Wal­lin in Saudi Ara­bia tonight.

Bohachuk suffered a close decision defeat against Vir­gil Ort­iz Jr while Dav­ies lost to Josh Kelly. Both men will be look­ing to get back to win­ning ways and at the same time push them­selves towards the very top of the super wel­ter­weight divi­sion. Usyk won by split decision in the first con­test after hav­ing Fury in trouble late in their undis­puted fight in May this year. This time all the belts aren’t on the line now that Daniel Dubois holds the IBF strap but these two are still recog­nised as the top two heavy­weights on the plant. Joyce to win via a close split-decision tonight after a bruis­ing, highly-enter­tain­ing heavy­weight slug­fest that will com­mand the atten­tion through­out. With his career on the line, Joshua can­not afford to look past Wal­lin, but past exper­i­ence should ensure that does not happen.

Joshua now tops a stacked bill in Riy­adh, with long-time rival Deont­ay Wilder the co-main event in an intriguing fight with Joseph Park­er. Should Joshua and Wilder both be suc­cess­ful, it is expec­ted they will finally meet in the ring next year. Hrgov­ic, cur­rently man­dat­ory for the IBF title, is also in action earli­er in the night, while Dmitry Bivol defends his WBA light-heavy­weight belt against Brit­ish fight­er Lyn­don Arthur. Wilder fights Park­er in a bout between two former world cham­pi­ons, with the win­ner of that leav­ing them­selves in pole pos­i­tion to chal­lenge at the top of the divi­sion next year.

Joshua vs Wal­lin takes place tonight, Sat­urday, Decem­ber 23, 2023, at the King­dom Arena in Riy­adh, Saudi Ara­bia. Wal­lin will be keen to derail all of these plans though, boost­ing his own world title ambi­tions in the pro­cess. The Swedish heavy­weight made a name for him­self in 2019 when he went the dis­tance with Tyson Fury and left his oppon­ent blood­ied and cut. It has been a year of recov­ery for the former heavy­weight cham­pi­on, hav­ing twice been beaten by Oleksandr Usyk, with routine vic­tor­ies over Jer­maine Frank­lin and Robert Hel­eni­us, the lat­ter a first stop­page win in almost three years.

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