Boxing is booming already in 2025, and the year is barely a couple of weeks old. With superfights such as Eubank Jr vs Benn and Garcia vs Haney both pretty much announced, we’ve picked out five weight classes that could host some of the biggest and most exciting bouts over the next 12 months.
Where better to start than with the big boys?
Heavyweights
A division dominated by Oleksandr Usyk, it’s the fighters behind him that make this division so mouthwatering in 2025.
With Daniel Dubois’s second defence of his IBF world title against Joseph Parker pencilled in for 22nd February, there is a whole host of challengers battling it out to book themselves a world title shot before the end of the year.
Former unified champion Anthony Joshua looked set to take on Tyson Fury, but with Fury now retired, he could potentially be thrown in with the boogeyman of the division, Martin Bakole, in an all-African clash at some point this year. What a spectacle that would be!
Zhilei Zhang and Agit Kabayel face off for the WBC ‘Interim’ World Title on 22 February, deciding the #1 contender for that governing body. But do not forget the likes of Moses Itauma, Fabio Wardley, Justis Huni, two-time Olympic gold medallist Bakhodir Jalolov, and Dillian Whyte—all of whom are in prime position for a crack at the big boys of the division at some point this year.
With Usyk’s next move unconfirmed, he could well decide to walk away from the sport. If that happens, the world titles could become scattered, leaving us with four different world heavyweight champions by the start of 2026.
