By: Sean Cross
“The two fighters agreed to fight each other next.” So said the famous American promoter Bob Arum. Sky Sports. According to Arum, Fury, who holds both the WBC and lineal heavyweight titles, and Usyk, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, are professionals who know what it takes to make a fight between them. fact. “With Fury and Usyk, we’re dealing with two adults, not a lot of back and forth,” Arum said. Usyk is a good friend of mine, he’s very intelligent and Tyson is Superman, both as an athlete and as an intellectual. If the two men fight next, it will be to see who will be the heavyweight champion of the world.
Arum pointed out that the process of preparing the necessary arrangements should be smooth, especially given the outrageous standards set by the recent high-level negotiations. “They both want the fight,” he said. “We can make this happen. I am very, very sure. As I said, the combatants agreed to fight each other next without any temporary combat. Fury’s last fight was the destruction of old friend and foe Derrick Chisora several weeks ago, while Usyk was seen outboxing former authority figure Anthony Joshua in their rematch last summer.
Arum went on to say that the Fury-Usick fight will go down “in the first four months of next year,” though the questions of when and where have yet to be answered. “The question now is what is the date and site,” Arum said. “But that fight is definitely going to happen.” Obviously, any fight for the heavyweight crown is going to be a big deal, so Arum, by teaming up with Fury, wants to make sure the venue is up to par with the event he’s hosting.
“We’re balancing a few important offers from the Middle East, and there’s the possibility of a fight in the UK at Wembley in front of a massive 95,000 crowd,” he said. Arum went on to say: “We’re going to sort everything out… maybe by the end of the year I hope.” In the year That’s a tall order considering the fact that 2022 is less than two weeks away. Still, a Fury-Usick matchup is something fans will want to see go down eventually. He hasn’t been the undisputed heavyweight champion since April 2000, when Lennox Lewis reigned supreme.
