Tyson Fury’s battle with Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed world heavyweight title has been postponed after the British fighter suffered a minimize to his eye.
The 2 undefeated boxers signed a deal for a unification battle final September and the pair had been because of meet on February 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
However the bout has been referred to as off after Fury – who holds the WBC belt – sustained a deep minimize to his proper eye in a sparring session in Riyadh. A brand new date has but to be set however is more likely to be this summer time.
An announcement from boxing promoter Frank Warren learn: “The minimize… required pressing medical consideration and important stitching, and can clearly require a interval of restoration, scuppering any chance of the battle with Usyk going down on seventeenth February in Saudi Arabia.
“While that is nonetheless breaking information it’s clearly a large disappointment, after the work that has been performed by so many individuals to lastly ship this historic occasion to the world.
“As soon as the medical doctors have appraised Tyson’s eye, we may have a greater thought of the interval of restoration wanted. As soon as recognized we’ll work diligently with all of the stakeholders and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reschedule this battle as quickly as doable and can after all preserve everybody up to date with developments.”
Fury, 35, apologised to Usyk, 37, – the present WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion – in addition to saying he’s working in direction of rescheduling the battle as soon as he has recovered.
He mentioned: “I’m completely devastated after making ready for this battle for thus lengthy and being in such excellent situation. I really feel dangerous for everybody concerned on this enormous occasion and I’ll work diligently in direction of the rescheduled date as soon as the attention has healed.
“I can solely apologise to everybody affected together with my very own crew, Crew Usyk, the undercard fighters, companions, and followers in addition to our hosts and my buddies within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
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