{"id":12618,"date":"2022-08-23T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:44:13","slug":"tyson-fury-could-headline-mega-heavyweight-fight-against-oleksandr-usyk-on-dec-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/tyson-fury-could-headline-mega-heavyweight-fight-against-oleksandr-usyk-on-dec-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury Could Headline Mega Heavyweight Fight Against Usyk On Dec 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tyson-fury-and-oleksandr-usyk.jpg\" alt=\"Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk\" title=\"Tyson Fury Could Headline Mega Heavyweight Fight Against Oleksandr Usyk On Dec 17\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12619\" \/><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tyson Fury expected to fight Oleksandr Usyk on Dec 17<\/li>\n<li>Usyk says if the fight with Fury does not happen, he will retire<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia keen to host mega heavyweight fight with huge bid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/anthony-joshua-vs-oleksandr-usyk-rematch-pushed-to-august-2022\/\"><strong>Oleksandr Usyk<\/strong> won his heavyweight rematch against Brit <strong>Anthony Joshua<\/strong><\/a> over the weekend to retain his <em>WBA, IBF and WBO<\/em> belts. The fight which took place in Saudi Arabia was a very close fight and the Ukrainian heavyweight ended up winning by split decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyson \u2018<em>the Gypsy King<\/em>\u2019 Fury<\/strong> has always wanted to fight his fellow Brit Anthony Joshua in Wembley stadium and give the British fans a massive heavyweight clash. <\/p>\n<p>With Joshua losing two fights in a row to Usyk, Fury has now set his sights on Usyk and talks have already started for a potential fight with Usyk on Dec 17.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury who is the current <em>WBC champ<\/em> retired after his last fight but the WBC has yet to strip him of his belt. They have given him time until 27 August to come out of retirement as the Gypsy King has teased coming out of retirement if a massive purse was on the line.<\/p>\n<p>It now looks like the <strong>fight against Usyk could have an even bigger purse than the \u00a385 million that was on the line<\/strong> during Usyk vs. Joshua 2. Saudi Arabia are keen to host what will be a mega heavyweight fight between Usyk vs. Fury on Dec 17 which will be one day before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/soccer\/fifa-world-cup\">FIFA World Cup final<\/a> which is taking place in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The minister for sport in Saudi Arabia, <strong>Prince Mohammad Abdulaziz<\/strong> went on record to state that they were very keen on hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/boxing\">Usyk vs. Fury<\/a> fight in Riyadh. There are unconfirmed reports that \u00a3125 million could be on the line for this fight!<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQZRMYaKO-o?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fury Dismisses Usyk\u2019s Skills and Performance <\/h2>\n<p>Tyson Fury who is never shy to speak his mind did not mince any words in describing what he thought of the rematch between Usyk vs. Joshua. Fury claims that the performance of both fighters was terrible and claimed that he will be able to beat both of them on the same night.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE GYPSY KING IS HERE TO STAY!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WBCBoxing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankwarren_tv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@frankwarren_tv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DaDCfbQvPI\">pic.twitter.com\/DaDCfbQvPI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tyson_Fury\/status\/1561138327964860420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Usyk has also gone on record to say that if the fight with Fury does not materialize, he might retire and relinquish his belts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Tyson Fury expected to fight Oleksandr Usyk on Dec 17 Usyk says if the fight with Fury does not happen, he will retire Saudi Arabia keen to host mega heavyweight fight with huge bid Oleksandr Usyk won his heavyweight rematch against Brit Anthony Joshua over the weekend to retain his WBA, IBF and WBO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fury Could Headline Mega Heavyweight Fight Against Usyk On Dec 17<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Usyk won his heavyweight rematch against Brit Joshua over the weekend to retain his WBA, IBF and WBO belts 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