Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk heavyweight title unification fight confirmed

Everything is almost ready. Tyson’s Fury World Boxing Council heavyweight champion and defending champion (UK) will face Oleksandr Usyk holder of the belts of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF), in a fight that will go down in history.

the two boxers they will stake their conquests and the winner will become the undisputed champion of the sport’s most exciting category. An unprecedented milestone since 1999-2000, when lennox lewis won all the world titles at the same time.

The meeting will be next April 29 in the mythical setting of Wembley (London, England), but to reach an agreement, which was confirmed by the president of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Gilberto Mendoza, Fury had to admit.

The point in dispute that delayed the official announcement was the issue of earnings. The gypsy king rejected up to two offers that the Ukrainian team offered him. First, he ruled out the possibility of an equitable distribution (50-50) then I did the same with a 60-40 in favor of the winner.

On Instagram, Fury made his demands clear. “I see all this fight talk, they want 50%, Tyson is greedy,” he said in a video. “Where I am: Usyk, you and your team are worth 30%. Take it or leave it”.

Finally, the Ukrainian boxer accepted these figures but demanded the donation of a million pounds for his country who is going through the war against Russia in which he himself participated at the beginning by enlisting for military service.

“If they want to take my life, or the lives of my loved ones, I’m going to have to do it. But I don’t want that. I don’t want to shoot, I don’t want to kill anyone, but if they kill me I have no other choice,” he said in a media interview last summer. CNN while taking refuge in a basement in kyiv.

A boxing professional since 2013 and with a resounding record of 20 wins (13KOs) in the same number of official appearances, when Russia invaded his country, Usyk traveled from London to his country to join the citizen army.

Regarding this requirement, the news agency Reuters contacted Usyk’s lawyer and he confirmed that these were the terms of profit sharing for the expected fight to take place.