WBA/WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) got off the canvas from a controversial ruling to stop WBA regular champion Daniel Dubois (19-2, 18 KOs) in round nine on Saturday night at Tarczyński Arena in Wroclaw, Poland.

Usyk started strongly, beating Dubois to the punch over the first four rounds. The controversy came in the fifth, Usyk was dropped to the canvas by a shot that was borderline but was ultimately called low from the referee.

Usyk took several minutes to recover but upcoming getting to his feet, regaining his composure to land an assortment of jabs mixed with the venomous left hand. Usyk made the breakthrough in the eighth before stopping his man in the ninth.

“I’m ready tomorrow for Tyson Fury, I’m ready next fight to fight Tyson Fury, but Tyson Fury, I have no idea.”

Unbeaten WBO #4, IBF #12 lightweight Denys Berinchyk (18-0, 9 KOs) defeated Anthony Yigit (27-4-1, 10 KOs) over twelve rounds to retain his WBO international belt. Scores were 117-111, 115-113, 116-112.

WBO #6, WBC #8 Hamzah Sheeraz (18-0, 14 KOs) annihilated Dmitry Mytrofanov (13-1-1, 6 KOs) in two rounds to retain his WBC silver crown.

Middleweight Fiodor Cherkaszyn (22-1, 14 KOs) lost by eight round majority decision against Anuel Ngamissengue (13-0, 8 KOs).

Unbeaten welterweight Vasile Cebotari (14-0, 6 KOs) stopped former contender Joel Julio (39-18, 33 KOs) in round six.