Following the conclusion of the Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua fight, with the Ukrainian retaining his heavyweight championship belts, a potential fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury has begun to take shape.
The Gypsy King’s team claimed he was in talks for a fight with a pot of more than the 100 million euros at stake in the rematch between Usyk and Joshua.
The fight, according to the Daily Mail, would be on December 17 in Saudi Arabia, the night before the World Cup final in Qatar.
The question of whether Fury, who announced his retirement from boxing a few weeks ago, would be willing to step into the ring is becoming clearer. After the Usyk-Joshua fight, he announced that he was willing to fight for “a lot of money”.
“”If you want those belts back, let’s send in the Gypsy barbarian of England, come on,” said Fury.
“Send me in. I will relieve the Ukrainian dosser of his belts like I did the last Ukrainian dosser. But its not gonna be cheap.
“If you want the best, then you gotta pay. It’s gonna be very expensive, so get your fu**ing cheque book out, and I will relieve that Ukrainian dosser of them belts, you know.”
The fighter has now been more explicit in a post on his Instagram. He recalled that, as he announced some time ago, his comeback would have to cost 500 million pounds.
“The world’s biggest fight has to be the world’s biggest money, if I’m going to put it all on the line against some unknown foreigner,” he wrote.
Fury has now gone even further. He revealed that if Anthony Joshua had been the winner against Usyk, then he would have fought for free.
“If it was AJ, it would’ve been for free but it’s not,” said Fury.
World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman, meanwhile, praised Fury and hopes the fight goes ahead.
“Tyson Fury is the WBC champion of the world, he’s not holding the ‘other belt’, he’s holding the WBC Championship which is the Championship of Muhammed Ali, George Foreman, Frazier, Tyson, Lennox Lewis etc,” Sulaiman told Sky Sports
I’m very proud of Tyson Fury, he’s a tremendous fighter and I am sure he wishes to continue boxing and a fight to unify all the championships in the division would be tremendous. We have given Tyson Fury the time to evaluate and be ready to make a proper decision and have until this Friday, on the 26th, to receive his written confirmation of what he will be deciding to do.
“But my personal opinion is that boxing is going through a great stage, a great moment, it will be great to see Fury against Usyk in the ultimate unification of the division.”
