The blood has already began flowing.
John Fury, the daddy of Tyson Fury, headbutted a member of Oleksandr Usyk’s staff after an trade of phrases 5 days earlier than the heavyweights are set to fulfill for the undisputed championship Saturday in Saudi Arabia on DAZN Pay-Per-View.
The conflict of heads, with Stanislav Stepchuk, triggered on a reduce on the elder Fury’s brow.
He apologized afterward in an interview with Seconds Out.
“Honest apologies to all people concerned to be trustworthy with you,” Fury mentioned on video. “It’s simply the way in which we’re. Feelings and tensions are working excessive. He was a really disrespectful fella, wasn’t he?
“When you come shut in a preventing man’s house, you’re gonna cop for one thing, aren’t you? Individuals don’t perceive we’re the true deal as fighters.
“What issues to me is respect for my son and he wasn’t exhibiting any of it. He talked about my son and that was it, so he needed to have it.”
Stepchuk informed Seconds Out that he did nothing to deserve being butted.
Fury and Usyk will struggle for all 4 main titles Saturday at Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh.