Tyson Fury requires Christmas conflict with Oleksandr Usyk for undisputed heavyweight championship | Boxing Information

Tyson Fury has confirmed he shall be able to struggle Oleksandr Usyk in an undisputed heavyweight championship conflict on December 23.

It is a brief turnaround for Fury, who has his first contest of 2023 on Saturday, albeit one in opposition to a blended martial artist, former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.

However he’s adamant he can tackle Usyk for the unified WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight titles on two days earlier than Christmas.

“We have signed the contracts,” Fury advised Sky Sports activities. “December 23, that is on the market is not it? It is solely eight weeks away from Saturday. Why not?

“I’ve not even had a struggle this yr so get two in earlier than the top of the yr could be unbelievable. Double payday,” he continued. “There will be a pleasant large turkey within the Fury family this Christmas.

“If it occurs December 23, I will be enjoying that tune, Driving Dwelling For Christmas, I will not land again within the UK until Christmas Eve, late Christmas Eve and if we get a delay I will be spending Christmas with the reindeers within the airport!”

Boxing wants to alter

The competition with Usyk has been a very long time within the making and Fury has made no secret of his frustration with the enterprise of boxing.

“You very hardly ever get two undefeated champions combating one another and if you do it is like each 10 years,” he mentioned. “[Usually] who’s going to win earlier than they’ve even fought, it is a pointless factor… I am a boxing fan. I have been a boxing fan my entire life and even I am fairly sick of it.”

He defined: “So one thing wants to alter. In UFC the perfect struggle the perfect, the contenders – No 10 will struggle No 11, No 4 will struggle No 3 and No 1 will struggle No 2.

“I do not suppose [boxing’s] ever been like that. Generally you get the perfect combating the perfect however there’s at all times been a build-up of cannon fodder all through their careers. Like for his or her first 20 fights they did not struggle anyone. That type of behaviour. Within the UFC they do not do this. They chuck them in immediately.

“In case you’re ok, you are ok and in case you’re not, go residence.

“In case you’re a champion and also you’re combating a defence or someone within the prime 10 then that is completely superb. I am on about grassroots stage. I am on about the way in which it is constructed up. When a champion’s combating the No 3 ranked contender there’s nothing incorrect with that.”

Fury does consider that his sport will change. “I feel it wants to alter for certain and I feel it can,” he mentioned. “There’s some large energy strikes taking place in boxing and it is all stemming from Saudi Arabia. I feel there’s going to be an enormous change within the subsequent few months. There’s going to be an influence change in boxing and it will be for the higher.

“So one thing wants to alter and I feel we will see it fairly quickly.”

‘The official baddest man on the planet’

It is pure for Fury to suppose that when his subsequent contest is a profitable non-title 10-round boxing contest with Ngannou in Saudi Arabia.

Ought to he beat Ngannou, he says, “I will be the baddest man on the planet. Not solely will I be the world heavyweight champion however I am going to turn into the official baddest man on the planet.

“Battle of the baddest, it is within the title!”

No retirement plan

Though Fury acknowledges he is “on the latter finish of my profession, I am 35 years {old} and I am reaping within the rewards,” the reigning WBC champion just isn’t planning on retiring from boxing.

He needs to maintain on combating and carry on coaching. “For a person in the midst of his life, a person who’s obtained ambition, a person who needs to do one thing, I really do not consider happiness exists. I feel it is a by-product of one thing else,” he mentioned.

“Does happiness actually exist for me in my life proper now or is it a by-product of me going to work daily, reaching objectives? Does that give me pleasure? Or is there such a factor as happiness?

“I do not know, for me I do not suppose it exists.”

Fury continued: “I haven’t got an exit technique as a result of past boxing I haven’t got something that I am inquisitive about. You would give me a trillion {dollars} immediately and it would not enhance my life in any respect. It would not make any distinction by any means.

“I suppose I am only a easy man, who simply likes to do what I do which is take the youngsters to high school, go to the gymnasium, take the canines for a stroll, clear up and that is it, repeat.

“Groundhog Day, that is my life, residing in Morecombe Bay doing the identical issues yr in yr out. It is most likely why I am so profitable at what I do.”

Stay for immediately solely

That for Tyson Fury, one of the crucial mercurial characters on the planet {of professional} boxing, is a information to life.

“I by no means look to the long run. That is the golden rule. The longer term is unimportant to me as a result of I stay for immediately solely,” he mentioned.

“I do not even stay for the following 4, 5 days prematurely. I solely stay in the future at a time as a result of that is the one method I understand how. Yesterday’s historical past, tomorrow’s a thriller, immediately is for residing.

“Tomorrow shall be what it is going to be. Tomorrow will deliver what it can deliver however as for immediately, it is the one factor I am centered on.

“In case you can stay your life like that, which 99.99 per cent of individuals cannot, you have then you definitely’ve cracked it.

“That is why I’ve cracked it.”

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