- Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will meet on May 18 in Riyadh
- Their heavyweight title fight was postponed in February after Fury’s injury.
- Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk admitted doubts about next month’s fight
Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alexander Krassyuk has revealed his fears that Tyson Fury will pull out of next month’s undisputed world heavyweight title fight.
The Gypsy King will face Usyk on May 18 in Riyadh in his bid to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.
The clash was scheduled for February 17 in Riyadh but was postponed after Fury suffered an injury during camp.
He suffered a severe cut above his right eye on Friday while training, which has been labeled by his promotion team as a “strange cut.”
Krassyuk said boxing scene He still has doubts about Fury stepping into the ring with Usyk next month, claiming the Gypsy King has already pulled out of the fight four times.
Alexander Krassyuk admitted to having doubts that Tyson Fury will face Oleksandr Usyk
Fury will face Usyk on May 18 after their world heavyweight title fight was rearranged.
“Usyk has actually had a triple camp for this fight,” Krassyuk said. ‘He started in September for the fight that would take place last December.
‘We showed up to the Ngannou fight to get in the ring and announce the fight for the undisputed, but his team jumped up and said he didn’t look that good, so Usyk gave him some space to prepare at his camp in Saudi Arabia .
‘So we were supposed to fight on February 17, then they rescheduled us for May. Tyson Fury has already withdrawn from this fight four times.
By the way, I don’t have much confidence that the rematch will happen. If Tyson Fury loses, will he have the confidence to get back in the ring? Theoretically it can, but we all know what happened in the rematch with Wladimir Klitschko.’
The winner of the highly anticipated fight will also unify the division for the first time since Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield in March 1999.
Fury insists the fight will take place on May 18, insisting he is focused on beating the Ukrainian boxer.
They will meet on May 18 in Riyadh after Fury’s eye injury delayed him from February.
Filip Hrgovic has been lined up as a replacement if Fury pulls out of next month’s fight.
The fighters have vowed to lose $10m (£8m) if they pull out of the fight, but Krassyuk remains doubtful Fury will compete.
He revealed that a replacement fighter has already been lined up in case Fury withdraws from the contest.
‘IBF mandatory Filip Hrgovic will be the replacement if [Fury] he does it again.
“He is preparing for Daniel Dubois on June 1, but he will have to be ready on May 18 to replace Tyson for any reason. Otherwise we will lose the [IBF] qualification. It was one of our conditions.’