Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have agreed to fight each other subsequent in a world heavyweight title unification bout, based on veteran boxing promoter Bob Arum.
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Fury defeated his British rival Derek Chisora for the third time in his profession to retain his WBC title earlier this month.
He then referred to as out Ukrainian hero Usyk, the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA belt-holder, who was ringside on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Following that combat, the 34-year-old Fury forecast a conflict with Usyk, both in Saudi Arabia or Britain, someday in February or March.
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“The two fighters have agreed to fight each other next,” the 91-year-old Arum advised Sky Sports on Tuesday.
“With Fury and Usyk we’re dealing with two adults, not a lot of (rubbish) 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.”
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The American, concerned in a few of Muhammad Ali’s celebrated contests of the Nineteen Seventies, added: “So they need the combat. Both of them need the combat and so there’ll be little or no, if any, (messing) round.
“Now the question is what’s the date and what’s the site. But that fight is definitely going to happen and it will happen in the first four months of next year.”
Usyk, 35, has twice defeated Anthony Joshua, firstly depriving the Briton of his world titles at Tottenham in September final 12 months earlier than defeating him once more in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this July.
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This September, he stated of a doable contest with Fury: “I would like to see this combat occur subsequent 12 months.
“We do not know what is on his mind. This is Tyson Fury, everyone knows that he is a very crazy kid.”
By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
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