Joseph Parker and Fabio Wardley are set to meet in a pivotal heavyweight encounter at London o2 Arena tonight on DAZN.

Before the two highly rated punchers meet, there are a number of intriguing fights on a lengthy undercard.

Below we round up all the action from the event:

Juergen Uldedaj marked the chief support bout with the 21st victory of his career, but it wasn’t pretty.

The 28-year-old tried and failed to nail down the durable and tricky Rolly Lambert (18-4-1, 14 KOs) but failed to make a dent in him over the course of 12 rounds.

But although Uldedaj (21-1, 8 KOs) couldn't live up to lofty billing by producing a memorable knockout, he did win wide in the eyes of the judges, who scored it 120-108, 118-110 and 119-109.

Uldedaj was back at 02 Arena for the first time since his only career defeat, when Benoit Huber beat him on points over eight in April 2023. This time, the Germany-based Albanian had clearly shifted a large number of tickets to his compatriots based in London, who greeted his arrival with a wall of noise.

However, it was followed by a quiet first round during which both men switched stances multiple times but failed to land anything of real note. It was a similar pattern for the entire first third of the fight, with both men spending more time switching stances than engaging in any actual combat.

After such a noisy introduction for Uldedaj, there were boos and whistles during the fifth round due to the lack of action in the ring. The slippery Lambert, a Dubai-based Cameroonian, was proving impossible to pin down for Uldedaj, who continued to chip away without much success.

The crowd were lifted again in the ninth, when Uldedaj started to land with a little more authority, particularly when he switched attack from head to body. But Lambert was not budging whatsoever. Instead, he continued to switch, slip, slide and frustrate.

They both emerged for the 12th and final round in southpaw stances and finally attempted to push the pace, much to the delight of the crowd. Even so, both men held firm and successfully saw out the full 12 rounds for the first time in their careers.

Ezra Taylor shook off the disappointment of losing out on his British and Commonwealth title shot by stopping late replacement Steed Woodall in the ninth.

The 31-year-old "Cannon" had been preparing to challenge Lewis Edmondson for the pair of light heavyweight belts until the champion pulled out during fight week citing a hip injury.

In stepped super middleweight Woodall on only a few days’ notice to ensure Taylor could still fight on this card, albeit in a non-title fight.

And 31-year-old Woodall, clearly the smaller man of the two, made a bright start despite starting the fight as a huge underdog against his Malik Scott-trained opponent.

But Taylor worked his way into the fight and began to make major inroads during the third round when he landed a sharp right uppercut and followed it up with a hard right hand. He did, however, take a full-blooded right hand himself when he dropped his mouth piece and momentarily paused. The referee failed to call break, and Woodall took his chance to land, but Taylor handled it well.

That was about as good as it got for Woodall, who was doing well to hang with Taylor but was sustaining heavy punishment, particularly from the 31-year-old’s left hook-right hand combination. By the eighth, Taylor was throwing – and landing – in threes and fours, and it looked likely that he would find a finish before the end of the 10 rounds.

And so it proved in the ninth as Woodall’s corner threw in the towel with their man against the ropes under more heavy fire from Taylor. Credit to the late replacement, who was still standing when the referee spotted the towel and stepped between them. The official time of the stoppage was 54 seconds of the ninth.

Royston Barney-Smith cruised to the most significant victory of his career, a lopsided 10-round decision over previously undefeated Danny Quartermaine.

Two of the three judges had him a 100-88 winner and the other scored it 98-90 in his favour as a result of his domination, which was punctuated by a knockdown in the 10th.

This fight between two of Britain’s undefeated junior lightweights had been originally scheduled for July 26, but an injury to Barney-Smith caused a three-month delay.

In the end, the pair combined to produce a largely untidy fight with Quartermaine warned regularly for the use of his head. Meanwhile, southpaw Barney-Smith boxed cleverly at range and kept his composure against a man who is ranked inside the top 15 by two of the four major sanctioning bodies.

In the final moments of round seven, referee Marcus McDonnell deducted a point from Leamington Spa man Quartermaine, who was well behind on the cards already. At ringside, former world heavyweight champions Tyson Fury and Daniel Dubois took their seats as RBS continued to pull away.

Barney-Smith (15-0, 7 KOs), still just 21, continued to control his opponent and finally made a breakthrough in the final minute of the fight to add a flourish to a skilful, mature performance. He had success with the check lead hook all night and it was that shot that felled Quartermaine (13-1-1, 4 KOs), who managed to regain his footing and hear the final bell despite heavy pressure.

Mitchell Smith marked his remarkable ring return with a wide points win over spirited Arnie Dawson.

Smith, who lost nearly half his body weight in order to make the 135-pound lightweight limit, has not boxed on a show of this magnitude for a decade. Since then he has been to prison three times and ballooned up to over 250 pounds.

That night when he lost to underdog George Jupp in Manchester in December 2015, which kicked off nearly 10 years in the boxing wilderness, Dawson was just 12 years old. And Smith used all his experience to out-think and outbox his younger, taller opponent, who he dropped with a perfectly timed right hand in the closing stages of the first round.

Dawson had his moments and landed with a series of hard body shots and straight right hands of his own. But Smith, now 32 and set to move into the WBO’s top 15, would not be denied and built up a healthy lead on the cards.

He dropped to his knees when his 10-round unanimous decision was confirmed, via scores of 98-91 twice and 96-93.