TYSON FURY needs a freak cage fight with former UFC heavyweight king Francis Ngannou – with Mike Tyson locked in there too – if the Oleksandr Usyk undisputed bout collapses.
Negotiations for the Spring showdown are nicely underway and hopes are excessive that the bout – for Fury’s WBC title and the WBA, IBF and WBO belts the Ukraine icon snatched off of Anthony Joshua – will occur.
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However boxing businessman Fury, 34, properly has a fallback plan in case the assembly with the 36-year-old southpaw fails to materialise.
Ngannou acquired within the Wembley ring after Fury’s 2022 win over Dillian Whyte within the hopes of lining up a crossover fight however he was below an unique contract with the UFC and nursing a knee harm.
However he has since left the American MMA model, dropping his belt, and needs to take up boxing.
At Saturday evening’s conflict between Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jr, Fury stated: “I’m very within the Francis Ngannou fight and he isn’t contracted to the UFC anymore.
“I’m fascinated about that and if the undisputed fight doesn’t get finished then I will likely be seeking to tackle him, the so-called Baddest Man on the Planet.
“And we’ll make it attention-grabbing, a hybrid fight, possibly MMA gloves and in a cage however with Queensberry guidelines.
“It will be a colossal occasion wherever it occurs.
“Me and him in a cage with 4oz gloves on. And possibly a famous person referee like Mike Tyson, only for bantz.”
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Hopefully, the back-up plan is not going to be wanted and all of the exhausting work Fury’s promoter Frank Warren has been doing with Crew Usyk yields the final word battle.
And boxing historian Fury reckons will probably be the most recent fight of the century.
He stated: “Once I get the deal finished all people will know.
“I’m not getting concerned in doing offers, that’s what I pay Frank Warren and my lawyer to do, as a result of all of the backwards and forwards drives me mad, he needs this and that. I’m not getting concerned.
“That is the fight of the century, they constructed Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier 1 as the fight of that century and there one earlier than that was Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, the largest crowd ever recorded at a boxing present.
“And now Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk to be the primary heavyweight four-belt holder in historical past.
“There have been undisputed heavyweight champions earlier than, the final was our Lennox Lewis, however that was for the three belts and never 4. I would be the first of this period.
“I’m an undefeated two-time world champion and he’s an undefeated two-weight world champion, so it’s a very attention-grabbing fight.”
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Fury has additionally finished the maths on how unbelievable his standing is on the prime of pugilism.
He stated: “I’m not bothered about historical past and legacy as a result of which means you’re over the hill and completed.
“I’m lively now and completely satisfied. I don’t give a rattling about when I’m gone.
“I’m having fun with being world heavyweight champion and nowing that out of about seven billion individuals on the planet, I’m the hardest, largest, baddest, hardest, ugliest man of all seven billion.
“Properly, if there’s seven billion individuals within the phrase, half of them should be girls, so say three-and-a-half billion and out of all of them, below Queensberry Guidelines, I’m the perfect.
“That could be a lot to say and I’m very pleased with it.”
There was only one ruthless line for Anthony Joshua, who turned down a December fight with Fury that Derek Chisora bravely took as a substitute.
He stated: “I’m not even fascinated about speaking about that tosser, that fight is prior to now.”
