The supervisor of unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk clearly doesn’t assume Tyson Fury is reliable.
Egis Klimas didn’t maintain again from castigating the WBC heavyweight titlist Saturday after it was introduced that Fury suffered a ugly reduce throughout sparring, thus forcing the postponement of the undisputed heavyweight championship set for Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The February date was itself a postponement, as Usyk and Fury had been initially set to battle in December. However Fury underwent a tougher-than-expected battle in opposition to Francis Ngannou in his earlier battle, compelling organizers to push the date a number of months for Fury to get well from his wounds.
Enraged boxing followers accused Fury of pulling out on function, pointing to his historical past of scuppering high-profile fights.
Klimas, the longtime supervisor of Usyk, didn’t maintain again.
“Tyson Fury is a f—ng coward who will do something to not face Usyk, and he requested his b!tch to hit him with a frying pan in his forehead,” Klimas instructed RingTV.com. “You possibly can quote me phrase for phrase for that. When the information was dropped at Oleksandr, he simply smiled. That’s all he did. He’s too mentally sturdy to interrupt.”
Not lengthy after information broke of the postponement, Saudi energy dealer Turki Alalshikh introduced that the brand new battle date can be Might 18. Alalshikh introduced the data alongside Fury in a video interview on The MMA Hour.
Boxing has not had an undisputed champion within the heavyweight division since Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in 1999.
Saudi Arabia nonetheless has a high-profile battle within the offing. On March 8, Anthony Joshua will tackle Ngannou.
And within the interview on The MMA Hour, Alalshikh confirmed that Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol will battle for the undisputed mild heavyweight championship on June 1.
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