Mega fight “while Usyk howls”?
Loudmouth Tyson Fury calls for the “Battle Of Britain”
09/06/2022, 12:14 p.m
Tyson Fury only resigns in April with a great deal of noise, the “Gypsy King” could maintain his legendary status as the undefeated heavyweight world champion. But the loud-mouthed boxer wants to get back into the ring and finally stage a megafight.
WBC champion Fury has been flirting with a return to the ring for weeks, his last fight to date was in April against Jamaica’s Dillian Whyte at Wembley. Once he declared his final retirement, then he called half a billion dollars as a sum for another fight. Now he announced that if Joshua backs down, he will look for another opponent.
Fury also wrote to his compatriot on Twitter: “What do you think, Big G: do we give the fans what they want while Usyk is howling? I have a date and a place. Who will rule Britain?” The former heavyweight champion Joshua is without a world championship belt after two defeats against the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, most recently in Jeddah/Saudi Arabia at the end of August. Joshua wrote that Fury should contact his management and that he would no longer participate in “online discussions”.
The “Battle of Britain” had been prepared for many years and was written and talked about over and over again as “the battle of all battles”. Joshua’s manager Eddie Hearn even announced in March 2021 that both parties had sealed two fights. But Joshua’s defeat against Usyk put an end to all plans for the huge spectacle. With Tyson Fury’s resignation, the duel seemed even further away.
“Ukrainian bum”
Most recently, there was speculation about a duel between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. “Send me in the ring and I’ll relieve the Ukrainian bum of his belt like I did the last Ukrainian bum,” Fury said in a video released after Usyk’s second win over Anthony Joshua. But so far there has been no unification fight with the Ukrainian. That may also have been due to Fury’s demands, which demanded 500 million pounds for the mega fight. “If you want to see the Gypsy King in the ring, you have to pay a huge sum to see the greatest fight in the world,” the 34-year-old said recently.
Fury had dethroned Usyk’s Ukrainian compatriot Wladimir Klitschko as four-time world champion in Düsseldorf in 2015. But Usyk made him an offer for a heavyweight spectacle in the ring after his second triumph over Joshua: “I’m sure Fury hasn’t really resigned and he wants to fight me. I want to fight him and if I don’t fight Fury , I don’t fight at all.”
But Usyk apparently has no desire for the spectacle against the loud-mouthed boxing retiree, who only resigned in April with the victory against Jamaican Dillian Whyte under tremendous fanfare as the first undefeated heavyweight world champion since the legendary Rocky Marciano. Usyk holds the world championship belts of the WBA, WBO and IBF associations, but does not want to box again this year.