Tyson Fury’s promoter Bob Arum has given an update on the latest regarding a potential undisputed clash between Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.
Skills Challenge Entertainment are looking to stage the historic fight in Saudi Arabia this December, on the same card as Deontay Wilder vs Anthony Joshua.
In a recent interview with Boxing News, Top Rank boss Arum admitted negotiations had slowed somewhat, but seemed to indicate the fight would happen regardless of Saudi involvement.
“Talks aren’t progressed, but there is time for the talks to be happening. I hope, particularly since throwing out all this money, that the double header does take place.”
“But I have no idea at all whether it’s realistic. It may or may not be realistic.”
“The money that the Saudis would allegedly put up for that fight far exceed the money that the fighters could earn anywhere else in the world.”
“Whether it happens that they put it up and the fight takes place, or they don’t put it up and the fighter’s will have to maximise the revenue, that will determine where the fight takes place.”
“So we’ll have to see.”
Fury has also recently come out to say that he will only face Usyk at Wembley Stadium.
Fans at this stage will just hope they finally see the top two heavyweights of this generation finally in the ring together, be it in London, Riyadh or anywhere else.
Despite months of negotiations and numerous assurances that a legacy defining showdown between Fury and Usyk would indeed go ahead, issues regarding purse splits and potential rematch clauses proved to be too much to overcome, leaving a universal sour taste in the mouths of the boxing public across the world.