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title: "Tyson Fury’s Sparring Partner Explains He Cut Brit After Prank Backfired"
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published: "2024-02-16T08:15:14Z"
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# Tyson Fury’s Sparring Partner Explains He Cut Brit After Prank Backfired

Tyson Fury’s undisputed showdown with Oleksandr Usyk was postponed after ‘The Gypsy King’ suffered a cut in sparring, and now the man who caused it has revealed it came following a prank from Fury.

A few months ago. you could be forgiven for not knowing the name of Croatian heavyweight Agron Smakici, but these days the six-foot-six southpaw is regularly in the headlines, after causing the cut.

Boxing fans around the globe let out a collective sigh of disappointment after the announcement, which delayed the first undisputed heavyweight title fight since 1999.

[Speaking to The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25941074/tyson-fury-eye-sparring-usyk-agron-smakici/), Smakici explained that Fury mocked him by ‘thrusting his crotch at his backside’ prior to the spar where the cut occurred, a moment which he says motivated him to prove his class, so much so that an [accidental elbow landed on the eye of Fury.](https://wp.boxing-social.com/news/tyson-fury-sparring-partner-speaks-out/)

> “He did it but it was a joke and I didn’t take it seriously,
>
> “I was not angry, because he was laughing, he is funny. He is a comedian.
>
> “Yes it made me a little more serious, it made me want to show him what I had.
>
> “But it was a clean punch and the elbow was not on purpose, I was just trying to give him better rounds and to show him that I deserved respect.
>
> “I got that respect in the sparring and afterwards he said ‘great sparring, accidents happening, everything before was great’.”

[Fury-Usyk will go ahead on May 18th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia](https://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/12040/13063599/tyson-fury-vs-oleksandr-usyk-heavyweight-fight-rescheduled-for-may-18-after-brit-suffered-cut-in-sparring#:~:text=Tyson%20Fury%27s%20undisputed%20heavyweight%20world,cut%20to%20the%20British%20boxer.), in a monumental showdown that will see the boxing world stand still and hold its breath in anticipation of the conclusive coronation of a heavyweight king.