Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, admits a unification with Oleksandr Usyk - at least for April 29 - is now a “dead duck.” It was confirmed on Wednesday that the potential showdown had fall apart - after both sides were unable to agree on the monetary terms for the contracted rematch.
Frank Warren, promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, will do his best to get the showdown with Oleksandr Usyk back on track. Alexander Krassyuk, promoter for WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Usyk, had recently revealed that a showdown with Fury is currently a dead issue.
Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down any fears pertaining to a fallout in a unification showdown with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Frank Warren realizes Tommy Fury is in a unique position to shape the sort of career he wants in boxing. Fresh off what some might call a mild upset over YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in their highly publicized eight-round cruiserweight bout last weekend in Saudi Arabia, the previously unrecognized member of the Fury fighting clan now finds himself with the sort of prestige and financial success that rarely comes to fighters with only nine fights to their name.
Promoter Frank Warren has acknowledged that negotiations for the undisputed heavyweight championship are still very much a work in progress. Tyson Fury, the WBC titlist from Manchester, England, whom Warren promotes, and Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF champion from Ukraine, have been in protracted discussions for the past few months to fight each other for all four heavyweight belts.
SO, ‘THE TRUTH’, as it was dubbed, is finally out and the hurt is on the side of Jake Paul after he was outpointed by Tommy Fury in Diriyah on Sunday night.
A heavyweight fight that was always a nonstarter is officially no longer in play. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Andy Ruiz has declined to move forward with an ordered interim IBF heavyweight title fight versus Filip Hrgovic. Representatives for the former unified heavyweight titlist informed the sanctioning body prior to Thursday’s scheduled purse bid hearing which was canceled as a result.
THE EYES OF the world, it seems, will switch to Saudi Arabia on Sunday for an eight-round fight between two rookies that has captured the imagination of an audience beyond boxing.
WE ARE BACK on the Bethnal Green beat on Friday for our first York Hall show of 2023. We got off to a captivating start to our year of boxing at Wembley a couple of weeks back with Anthony Yarde’s thrilling challenge to light heavyweight General Artur Beterbiev and there are many more fantastic nights ahead of us involving the likes of Tyson Fury, Joe Joyce and Daniel Dubois.
I WAS DELIGHTED last week to be able to officially signpost a proper banger of a heavyweight fight for April 15 when Big Joe Joyce goes up against Big Bang Zhang, otherwise known as Zhilei Zhang.