The stench of blood hangs over AJ’s rematch with Usyk in Saudi Arabia

John Wight
5 min readAug 17, 2022

The port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia is where Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk will meet on August 20 in what, if the the likes of Eddie Hearn of DAZN and Adam Smith of Sky Sports are to be believed, is a highly anticipated rematched. It’s hard to square this claim with their first fight at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September last year, however, which turned out to…

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