WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has said Oleksandr Usyk doesn’t want to fight him this year, adding he is “not going to wait around” and will announce a fight next week.
It had been hoped that an undisputed heavyweight world championship clash between the pair could be arranged for this year, with Fury having set a September 1 deadline for the fight to be made.
When that day came and passed, Fury took to Twitter a day later and said the WBO, WBA and IBF champion was “running, hiding”, mockingly labelling him a “middleweight”.
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Tyson Fury – who had previously announced he’s retired from boxing – had set a deadline of September 1 for his unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk to be made. Credit: @Tyson_Fury
On Saturday, when involved in the main event at WWE’s ‘Clash at the Castle’ in Cardiff, Fury said: “Usyk was calling me out after his last fight with [Anthony] Joshua, I’ve replied and said let’s do the fight this year, wherever they want to do it.
“I’ve been waiting for offers from countries to come forward, and all of a sudden Usyk has stated he doesn’t want to fight any more, he wants to fight next year, not this year.