Queensberry Promoter, Frank Warren, has defended his man, Tyson Fury, after criticism ‘The Gypsy King’ has faced for being involved in numerous fight collapses this year.
Fury was expected to fight Oleksandr Usyk in Spring, however the undisputed bout failed to materialise and both champions were forced to look elsewhere.
Since then, the Brit has been linked to clashes against the likes of Andy Ruiz Jr, Zhilei Zhang and Anthony Joshua, but is still yet to nail down an opponent for September.
In an interview with Seconds Out, Warren stood up for the WBC Champion and said the carrot of Saudi Arabia purses was the reason for the hold-up in the heavyweight division.
“If you agree to take 60/40, you draft a contract and then you [Joshua] say, ‘I can’t fight because I won’t be ready, and I have not got a trainer’. That is not Tyson’s fault.”
“What Usyk said is that Tyson said 70/30 and he came back and said ‘yeah, I will do that’ and then that Tyson was asking for too much other things. It was one thing, which was the rematch, he didn’t want a rematch clause. He has come back since, in the last couple of weeks and said ‘look if I lose, I don’t want a rematch. If you lose, I will give you a rematch.’ That is what he said, before the Daniel Dubois fight, and now they won’t even comment on it.”
“Let me tell you what the common thread is – Saudi Arabia, and the amount of money that they think they are going to generate, where they can get three or four times more money. That is the common thread.”
Fury continues his search for a dance partner, with Martin Bakole and Agit Kabayel the latest to be linked.