Ukrainian boxer Alexander Usik talked about his mother’s reaction to the fight with Briton Tyson Fury at the press conference and stated that his mother was very angry at such things. Boxing King Media.
“I told him it was just part of the show. Usyk expressed that if he pushed me again he would deal with it,” she said.
Usik and Fury were scheduled to meet in the Saudi capital Riyadh on February 17, 2024. On February 2, the Englishman suffered a cut above his eye during training, which caused the fight to be postponed. The new date of the fight is May 18, 2024. If the fight is postponed again, the person responsible for the postponement will be fined $10 million out of his purse.
Before this, it was learned that the fight between Alexander Usik and Tyson Fury on March 2, 2023 was broken up. The fight between these rivals was scheduled for April 2023 and then moved to December. However, later the organizers decided to postpone the fight due to the meeting between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou on October 28, 2023. The Briton then won via split decision.
Formerly Fury’s father I broke my face During a fight with a member of Usik’s team.