Time is ticking, and there is less than a month left before the undisputed heavyweight championship match, Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk, the two sides will face off in Saudi Arabia on May 18, but to this day, the Usyk team is still not at ease, with their knowledge of Fury, afraid that the opponent will "release the pigeon" again.
This week, Usyk's promoter, Alexander Krasuk, said that if Fury does retire again, they will take the stage on May 18 as originally planned, when they will face their substitutes, and the names of the substitutes will be announced.
Krasuk admitted that he "didn't believe" that Fury would play on time, so he talked about the issue of the substitute opponent, which caused concern from the outside world, so that some fans worried: What will happen again?
Krasuk told reporters that the game time has been changed four times against Fury, and Usyk has had to prepare three training camps for it, all due to Fury's lack of integrity.
"Remember, we were going to go to war last April, and Fury withdrew, which is why we chose Daniel Dubois," Krasuk said. After the win over Dubois, Usyk was scheduled to play Fury in December, we started preparing in September, and as a result, Fury didn't look good against Francis Nganno, so we gave him some time, but the match scheduled for February 17 this year was postponed again and changed to May, and now Fury has postponed the game four times, what else can we say?"
It remains to be seen whether Fury will withdraw again, and hopefully not, but don't forget that Fury also suffered an "accident" when the big game was approaching in February, and you never know what will happen until the start bell rings.
Fury and Usyk are known to have signed a rematch agreement that will lead to a rematch under contract when a match is completed in May, but Krasuk said that even if the deal is signed, he still can't guarantee that the rematch will go through.
"By the way, I don't have a lot of confidence in going to the rematch, if Fury loses, will he step into the ring again? ”
The public is concerned about who Usyk's backup opponent will be if Fury does retire again, Krasuk has revealed that Croatian boxing sensation Filip Hrgovic has been called up and ready to challenge Usyk.
Hrgovic will face Dubois on June 1, but Krassouk said that Hrgovic will come off the bench if Fury has problems, which has been agreed by the IBF, who is currently a mandatory challenger for the IBF.
"If Fury does it again, IBF will force Črgovic to be a substitute," Krasuk said. Hlgovic is gearing up for a June 1 fight against Dubois, but at the same time must be ready for May 18 to replace Fury, or Usyk will lose the IBF title, which is one of our conditions. The fight is the undisputed champion fight, not about money, about honor, about status, Fury said he doesn't care about that, but at the press conference, when he saw the WBA, IBF, WBO and the Ring magazine belt, he almost screamed. ”