Anthony Joshua will attempt to become the first man to hold all four heavyweight world titles at the Cardiff’s Principality Stadium tonight.
The 28-year-old IBF and WBA champion will face-off against Carlos Takam.
“History is a great thing to chase,” Briton Joshua told the BBC ahead of the hotly-anticipated fight, “It’s very possible and a great challenge.”
Mike Tyson previously held three heavyweight titles in 1987, before the formation of the WBO.
Since the formation of that body, no single man has held all four titles – with Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, James “Buster” Douglas, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury all holding three belts at once.
The fight starts at 6pm on Saturday October 28th 2017 and is being broadcast exclusively on Sky Sports Box Office (Sky Channel 491) and Sky Sports Box Office HD (Sky Channel 492), until 1am on Sunday October 29th.
Virgin TV customers should head to Home > On Demand > Live Events to watch the fight on Sky Box Office.
Earlier this year, research indicated that 3 millions Britons would illegally live stream the McGregor vs Mayweather.
Those looking to avoid the £19.95 price tag on Sky Sports Box Office for the Anthony Joshua vs Carlos Takam fight should be aware recent changes in UK law.
FACT, which works to protect intellectual property in physical media and online, has praised the ruling from the High Court.
CEO Kieron Sharp said: “This is the latest action taken in the ongoing crackdown on illegal digital piracy.
“It should now be crystal clear to anyone thinking of pirating or watching a pirated stream that this is not a grey area and that it is illegal.”
The latest ruling comes one week after an individual admitted sharing video of the Joshua vs Klitschko fight on Facebook.
The unnamed pirate agreed to pay substantial legal costs to Sky – and was asked to pen an apology. The Joshua vs Klitschko stream in question was viewed by around 600,000 people.
In March 2017, the UK High Court of Justice ruled that Internet Service Providers were to block access to illegal live streams of English Premier League football.
As part of the judgment, Mr Justice Arnold clarified that an end user accessing streams via illicit streaming devices – like so-called Kodi Boxes – carry out an act of copying which is not authorised is infringing copyright, meaning those viewing illegal streams are breaking the law.
One month later, in April 2017, the EU Court of Justice judgement in the Filmspeler case included confirmation that streaming by end users constitutes an infringement of copyright.
The new Digital Economy Act which came into effect on October 1st 2017, has extended criminal penalties for online copyright infringement to match those of physical copyright infringement – maximum sentences have increased from two years to 10 years.
Speaking about the impact of online piracy earlier this year, FACT CEO Kieron Sharp said: “If everyone stole content, programmes like Game of Thrones wouldn’t exist, and neither would a huge number of jobs in the creative economy.
“Not just the stars on screen, but make-up artists, carpenters – all those names you see in the credits, plus many, many more who are indirectly involved in production.
“Content piracy is theft.”