The fight for the title of absolute world champion in heavyweight boxing between the British Tyson Fury and Ukrainian Alexander Usik, scheduled for December 23, will be held in February next year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
About it with reference to the organizers of the fight reports the edition ESPN. The exact date of the fight will be announced soon.
The reason for the postponement of the unification match was the heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou, which took place last weekend, in which the reigning WBC world boxing champion barely defeated the former UFC champion by split decision, having been knocked down in the third round.
Since Fury and Usik have a mandatory rematch clause in their contract, it virtually guarantees that the two fighters will have two fights next year, and Ngann should look for another opponent if he doesn’t want to sit around waiting for a rematch with “The Gypsy King”. Earlier, the British heavyweight said he would go for a rematch with the Cameroonian after he closes the issue with the Ukrainian.
Alexander Usik, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight belts, made a successful defense of his titles two months ago by knocking out Britain’s Daniel Dubois in the ninth round, however, the moment with the Ukrainian’s fall in the fifth round is still the subject of controversy that the champion may have had to lose that fight early.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33032-nazvany-novye-sroki-boya-mezhdu-tajsonom-fyuri-i-aleksandrom-usikom.html?rand=19907
