Great Britain’s Olympic trio Lawrence Okolie, Joe Cordina and Josh Kelly have been added to the undercard when Anthony Joshua MBE takes on Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium on the 29th April 2017.
The Olympic trio have now turned to professional boxing with Okolie winning his debut bout against Geoffrey Cave within 30 seconds in Manchester last month making him the first of the trio to fight professionally.
Josh Kelly makes his professional debut next weekend in Glasgow on the undercard to Ricky Burn’s World Super Lightweight unification match against Namibian Julius Indongo and Welshman Joe Cordina will make his professional bow a week later where Martin Murray and Gabriel Rosado top the card in their Middleweight fight.
“I’m delighted to add these outstanding young fighters to a historic night of boxing at Wembley on April 29,” said promoter Eddie Hearn.
“In terms of platform and experience, there is no better stage for their career. It was nearly three years ago that Anthony Joshua kicked the night off at Wembley Stadium for Froch vs. Groves II and I believe all three of these fighters have the ability to headline there in years to come.”
The trio will be vying to open the bill at Wembley Stadium on the 29th April, as Promoter Eddie Hearn stated the three will be drawing lots to ensure first spot on the card.
“We will draw numbers on fight week with the number one spot kicking off the night and the other two sitting tight for the knock on the changing room door as the huge 90,000 crowd begins to build.”
Okolie, Cordina and Kelly are the latest fighters to be added to the Joshua Klitschko show after the announcement that former World Super-Bantamweight king Scott Quigg continues his quest to become a two-weight champion by facing Viorel Simion at Featherweight, with more fights to be announced shortly.
