By: Sean Crose
“What really killed the deal,” Oleksandr Usyk’s supervisor, Egis Klimas, stated on the In This Corner podcast, “(was) when Fury’s people came back and said: ‘We’re going to include the rematch, but if Usyk wins were going to go in that direction and then we’re going to split 50/50.’” Klimas was referring to the small print of a possible rematch that derailed the a lot hoped for undisputed heavyweight title struggle between WBA, IBF, and WBO champion Usyk and WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
“Now were doing 70/30,” Klimas defined, “but if Usyk wins, and Usyk has all four belts, we’re going to do 50/50, and if Usyk loses we’re going to do 80/20.” In different phrases, Usyk would take 30 % of the earnings of a struggle with Fury whereas Fury would take 70%. Then, if Usyk gained and there was a rematch, the earnings can be cut up 50/50. But if Fury have been to win and there was a rematch, the earnings can be cut up in Fury’s favor, 80% to twenty%. It was a proposal that proved to be an excessive amount of for Team Usyk (at the very least based on Klimas).
After agreeing to a 70/30 cut up for the primary struggle, Usyk was completed with being provided the brief finish of the stick. “I told all negotiators: This is going to be a deal breaker’” stated Klimas. ‘”You put a saddle on Usyk, and you think he accepted 30/70, so he’s going to take every little thing that you simply throw in to him.” Klimas claimed he instructed Team Fury they have been on skinny ice. “I said: “‘You’re going to break a deal. It’s a deal breaker right now.” Team Fury requested Klimas to move the supply alongside to Usyk regardless.
“When Ksyk heard about that,” Klimas continued, “he said: That’s it. I’m out,’ and he says: “And I am out for sure, seriously. I can’t take that no more. This is too much, too insult(ing). I don’t want to hear it. I’m packing my stuff. I’m going back home to my family. I am leaving.” As Klimas tells it, Team Fury didn’t imagine Usyk was severely strolling away from the deal. “Nobody believed me,” stated Klimas. “I said: ‘No, you’re not getting what I’m saying. The deal is out.”
And certainly it was.
