Fury vs Usyk CONFIRMED as deal signed for heavyweight boxing mega-fight
A deal has been agreed for the champions to place their belts on the road with experiences suggesting the combat will happen in late December of this 12 months, or early January 2024.
The contest can also be more likely to happen in Saudi Arabia, the host of a number of big boxing occasions lately together with Fury’s upcoming match-up with UFC icon Francis Ngannou.
Talks have been held on quite a lot of events to pair up the world’s prime heavyweight fighters, who’re additionally seen by many as the perfect pound-for-pound boxers of the present period.
Nobody has unified the heavyweight divsion since Lennox Lewis within the late Nineteen Nineties, in a technology the place solely three belts had been required for the honour. Nowadays, the WBA, IBF, WBO and WBC titles are all required with Fury holding the latter and Usyk the opposite three.
Fury had appeared to minimize the possibility of an settlement in a chat with TNT Sports, launched earlier this week. He declared: “The fans want it and if the money’s there we’ll do it.
“Why on in the world would I want to fight [Usyk] for no money, he’s got zero personality, he’s an ugly b******d with gappy teeth and he’s half the size of me, so it’s all to gain for him and nothing to gain for me, isn’t it?”
There had been discuss of Anthony Joshua preventing Deontay Wilder on the undercard of Fury vs Usyk, in what could be maybe essentially the most star-studded heavyweight combat night time of all time.
However, talks for a January combat in Saudi have collapsed as a consequence of points with holding the venue.
Promoter Eddie Hearn instructed iFL TV: “We’d agreed, Wilder had agreed, now we’re talking to other sites about that fight in February or March and that’s still the plan, very much the plan.”