Who will fight Fury if the Usyk fight doesn’t happen?
Negotiations between the ‘Gipsy King’ and the Ukrainian boxer are ongoing but nothing has been closed yet. Who will jump in if the Fury-Usyk fight doesn’t happen?
Everything can happen in the Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk talks for their heavyweight mega fight. After weeks of negotiations between both sides, there are still important issues when it comes to reaching a deal on the share of the purse split each fighter will get to make the showdown possible at Wembley Stadium.
If the going gets tough and conversations between the two heavyweight champions don’t progress and come to an end, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn admitted he has been working on a Plan B that will also be highly attractive. However, it’s hoped the unification showdown between both champions will be finalized this week.
The fight was meant to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but things changed drastically when it was known that Saudi businessmen couldn’t confirm that the construction of their new stadium in Jeddah can be completed in time.
Eddie Hearn’s alternative plan: an all-British super fight
But if the worst scenario happens, Hearns is sure he can come up with a replacement name that would also attract a huge amount of fans all over the world. And that’s no other than former heavyweight king Anthony Joshua.
“Don’t be surprised. I don’t know what’s gonna happen with this Usyk thing. He [Joshua] may fight Fury next,” Hearn said to IFL TV.
Hearns also said that “we’d be open to that fight. If Oleksandr Usyk doesn’t fight Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua will fight Tyson Fury next, in the summer. How about that? Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. He will”.
“If that fight doesn’t happen, we’ll take the Fury fight. Don’t be surprised to see that fight in the summer if the other one doesn’t happen”, he concluded.