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Tyson Fury will NOT face Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia mega show this year, but is instead set for ‘game-changer’ fight, says Frank Warren
Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk is dead and will not happen in 2023, Fury's UK co-promoter Frank Warren has confirmed.
The much anticipated undisputed heavyweight world title fight previously collapsed for a proposed April 29 date in the UK, and now a plan to stage it in Saudi Arabia in December has also fallen apart.
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Saudi's Skill Challenge Entertainment said they intended to table huge offers for Fury vs Usyk and Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder to take place in December.
However, these offers are yet to arrive and so Fury is heading in a different direction.
Warren told marvelbet369.com: "I'm hoping we'll have an announcement in the next week or so.
"We've pretty much done what we want to be doing, but we're not in a position to make the announcement. His fight's done, we can't hang around.
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"He will not be fighting on the Skill Challenge show in December because they're talking about their show now being postponed until January.
"I think their head of boxing Amer Abdallah said they'll probably be moving it to the first quarter of 2024, that's up to them.
"Prince Khaled is a fantastic person, I really like him, but in the meantime we have to move on, we are going to announce something."
Warren continued: "Tyson really wants to fight and we've gotta make it happen.
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"We have to make things happen, we can't wait for people to make things happen.
"We tried to make it happen three times already this year with Usyk, contrary to all of the social media crap, he didn't want it.
"If he'd have wanted it, the fight would've taken place.
"What he wants to do is wait and he thinks he's getting his $70million in Saudi, and I understand that.
"I absolutely get that, but stop the nonsense that the fight's not happening because of Tyson."
Warren then teased Fury's next fight further, telling Saywer and Jordan on talkSPORT that it will be a 'game-changer'.
"It'll be a bit of a game-changer in a couple of weeks' time," he said.
"It'll be a massive game-changer and it's gonna be interesting to see the fallout from it.
"You'll find out in a couple of weeks. I guarantee you, you'll say to me in a couple of weeks, 'That's a game-changer.'"
In recent weeks there has been some talk of a potential crossover fight for Fury against one of the big name MMA heavyweight champions - Francis Ngannou or Jon Jones.
"Yeah, he's up for that," Warren confirmed to marvelbet369.com, "He can't sit around twiddling his thumbs.
"The type of money something like that could generate - why are you waiting for people who keep saying, 'Let's wait until next year,' when you can make these fights now. Why wouldn't you do that now?
"I have no problem, if they wanna do that in the boxing ring, no problem at all.
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"That's a huge, huge event.
"That all depends on quite a few things, but that's a door that you don't have to push very much for it to open."
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