By Declan Taylor
SAUDI ARABIA are pressing ahead with a show on December 23 regardless of the delay on Tyson Fury’s undisputed conflict with Oleksandr Usyk.
The two heavyweights had been purported to lastly meet on December 23 to determine who’s the planet’s No.1 heavyweight however, after Fury’s bruising encounter with Francis Ngannou on Saturday, that date has now been pushed again.
It has been reported that regardless of a contract stipulating a December 23 conflict, the pair will now collide in February giving Fury extra time to relaxation within the wake of the cut up determination victory over Francis Ngannou.
Fury’s conflict in opposition to the boxing debutant marked the beginning of Riyadh Season, a six-month competition within the Saudi capital. He was then purported to field Usyk on the halfway level earlier than their contracted rematch in March, on the very finish of the occasion.
But Boxing News understands that Saudi are nonetheless plotting an enormous, money-spinning card on December 23 to mark the center of Riyadh Season, despite the fact that neither Fury or Usyk will characteristic.
It is very doubtless that Ngannou’s second struggle as knowledgeable will prime the invoice with the likes of each Zhilei Zhang and Joseph Parker touted as opponents for the 37-year-old former UFC champion, who dropped Fury with a left hook within the third of their ten-rounder. High stage talks in regards to the conflict have taken place this week with an announcement anticipated sooner or later subsequent week.
On the undercard, 20-1 heavyweight Martin Bakole is very more likely to characteristic as soon as extra following his fourth spherical stoppage of Carlos Takam on the Kingdom Arena on Saturday evening.
The Scotland-based Congolese puncher grew to become a crowd favorite in Riyadh after making an enormous impression on the (*23*), who’ve now requested that he containers once more on December 23.
His fellow heavyweight Moses Itauma can also be anticipated to field once more after he crushed Istvan Bernath inside a spherical on Saturday evening. The 18-year-old prodigy is slated to field on the Copper Box on December 2 and, with all being nicely, will then try and go 8-0 in Saudi.
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