Bob Arum: Fury-Usyk “Is Definitely Going To Happen And It Will Happen In The First Four Months Of Next Year”
By: Sean Crose
“The two fighters have agreed to fight each other next.” So legendary American promoter Bob Arum has instructed Sky Sports. As Arum tells it, each Fury, who holds the WBC and lineal heavyweight titles, and Usyk, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, are professionals who know what must be executed to be able to make a struggle between them develop into a actuality. “With Fury and Usyk we’re dealing with two adults,” Arum stated, “not a lot of back and forth. Usyk is a good friend of mine, he’s very intelligent and Tyson is Superman, both as an athlete and as an intellect.” Should the 2 males face off subsequent, it is going to be to see who’s the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
Arum indicated that the method of creating the required preparations ought to show to be clean crusing, particularly by the infuriating requirements set by latest excessive profile negotiations. “Both of them want the fight,” he stated. “We’ll be able to make that happen. I’m very, very confident. As I said the fighters have both agreed to fight each other next without any interim fights.” Fury’s final bout was a destruction of outdated good friend and foe Derek Chisora a number of weeks again whereas Usyk was final seen outboxing former titlist Anthony Joshua of their rematch final summer season.
Arum went on so as to add {that a} Fury-Usyk battle can be happening “in the first four months of next year,” although questions of when and the place have been nonetheless but to be answered. “Now the question is what’s the date and what’s the site,” Arum stated. “But that fight is definitely going to happen.” Obviously any battle for the undisputed heavyweight crown goes to be an enormous deal, so Arum, who co-promotes Fury, desires to make sure the venue might be as much as par with the occasion it is going to be internet hosting.
“We are balancing a couple of significant offers from the Mid East,” he stated, “and also there’s the possibility of doing the fight in the UK at Wembley with a massive 95,000 crowd in attendance.” Arum went on to say that: “We’ll have it all sorted out…I hope maybe by the end of the year.” That’s a reasonably tall order contemplating the truth that there’s lower than two weeks left in 2022. Still, a Fury-Usyk match is one thing followers would definitely prefer to see go down sooner reasonably than later. There hasn’t been an undisputed heavyweight champion since April of 2000, in any case, again when Lennox Lewis reigned supreme.
