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LONDON. The title unification fight between the two heavyweight boxing world champions Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, which was actually planned for April, has apparently burst. “The fight has been cancelled,” Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk confirmed to British radio station Talksport: “The reason is that it went too far.”
The Ukrainian Usyk had already accepted for the mega fight that he would only be involved in the division of the fight exchange with 30 percent. Fury should then have made even more outrageous demands despite a fundamental agreement.
Had the contract been signed, the fight should have taken place on April 29 at London’s Wembley Stadium. The 36-year-old Usyk is world champion in the IBF, WBA and WBO associations, while Fury, who is two years his junior, holds the WBC title. The winner of a unification fight should have called himself the undisputed champion. The Brit Lennox Lewis was the last heavyweight to do so more than 20 years ago.
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