Fury talks confirmed for shock Australia bout as opponent ‘given August date’
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yson Fury is in talks to struggle Demsey McKean this summer time, in keeping with the Australian heavyweight’s supervisor.
The seek for an opponent for Fury goes on, with a possible July bout in opposition to Andy Ruiz Jr falling by means of resulting from monetary calls for and Zhilei Zhang additionally seemingly off the desk after Joe Joyce activated his rematch clause to tackle the Chinese fighter as soon as once more.
It continues to be hoped that Fury will struggle Oleksandr Usyk in December, as a part of Saudi Arabia’s huge-money plans that may additionally see Anthony Joshua struggle Deontay Wilder on the identical night time. The winners of these two fights would then be set to struggle one another subsequent yr.
Fury has not fought since December, when cruising to victory over Derek Chisora, and since then talks over an April date for the undisputed bout with Usyk to happen at Wembley Stadium collapsed after weeks of very public negotiations.
Whether that massive night time of heavyweight boxing takes place on the finish of the yr in Saudi stays to be seen, however for now the main target for Fury and his crew is on discovering an opponent for this summer time, with time working out.
The WBC champion is at the moment in Australia, supporting buddy and former world champion Joseph Parker, and has claimed he will probably be travelling across the nation taking a look at potential venues for a struggle of his personal.
That may properly come in opposition to unbeaten heavyweight McKean, who’s ranked thirty sixth by the WBC and promoted by Eddie Hearn. McKean’s supervisor Angelo Di Carlo revealed that there are negotiations going down for his man to struggle Fury Down Under in August.
“Chats began some time ago for Demsey to fight Tyson Fury in Australia and I think Demsey is the best option for the Gypsy King,” Di Carlo informed News Corp.
“We’re certainly keen to do the fight. We’ve had a good association with Matchroom (McKean’s promoters) and we have great respect for Eddie Hearn (Matchroom boss), but I’ll have more talks with Fury’s camp and see where that takes us.
“If Tyson Fury wants to fight in Australia, the logical option is to fight an Aussie fighter and talking to Fury’s people, they don’t want to fight a small heavyweight. Demsey is six foot six and being a southpaw, he would present a real test for Tyson.
“We’ve been given a possible date to fight Fury in August, so hopefully we can make it happen.”