BOXING-HEAVY – TELAM Agency
The contract to carry out the fight between the undefeated heavyweight champions, the Englishman Tyson Fury and the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, was signed and the expected fight will take place between the end of the year and the first months of 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the press reported today. British.
The British Fury, 35, is the WBC champion and the Ukrainian Usyk, 36, holds the WBA, WBO and IBF titles.
The scheduled date is December 23, although the fight could be delayed until early next year, and the winner will be crowned the first undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era, BBC Sports noted.
However, Fury, ‘The Gypsy King’, must first emerge unscathed from a non-title fight against MMA star Francis Ngannou on October 28 in Riyadh.
Fury has 33 fights with 33 wins (24 by knockout) and one draw; while Usyk won all 21 professional fights. (14 for out of combat)
The fight will be part of the ‘Riyadh Season’, a festival of entertainment events held in the capital of Saudi Arabia every winter since its launch in 2019.
Fury won his first world title after dethroning Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, before taking a hiatus from the sport.
After well-documented mental health issues, he returned more than two and a half years later. He fought a trilogy with Deontay Wilder and, after drawing the first fight, defeated the American in 2020 to become WBC champion.
Fury won the third fight with the hard-hitting Wilder and has since defended his belt against the British Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora.
Usyk is one of the most decorated fighters in world boxing. The London 2012 Olympic gold medalist became undisputed world champion before dethroning Britain’s Joshua in 2021.
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