When will Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk rematch? Gypsy King discusses future after losing undisputed clash

Tyson Fury has opened up on his future after suffering a heartbreaking split-decision defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.

The Gypsy King suffered the first loss of his career to miss out on becoming boxing's first four-belt undisputed heavyweight champion.

Usyk and Fury met in Saudi Arabia both vying to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999.

It proved to be the Ukrainian who snatched the WBA, WBO, WBC, and IBF belts with a split decision win following a thrilling 12-round fight.

Two judges scored the bout 115-112 and 114-113 in Usyk's favour, while a third scored the fight 114-113 to Fury.

The Brit had a rematch clause inserted in the showdown and talk has already turned to the prospect of a second meeting between them.

When will Fury and Usyk rematch?

The second meeting between the two has been tentatively scheduled for Saturday, October 12.

It is again expected to be held in Saudi Arabia, but is subject to delay depending on the recovery of both fighters.

Usyk in particular was carried to his dressing room by his team and was reported to have broken his jaw during the gruelling exchanges.

Regardless, any future clash between Usyk and Fury will not be for the undisputed titles with the former set to be stripped of the IBF.

Filip Hrgovic earned his place as their mandatory challenger by beating Zhilei Zhang in 2022 and looks set to finally get his shot for the belt against Daniel Dubois in June.

Should the Croatian come through that bout then that opens up an opportunity to face off with Anthony Joshua in September.

That would leave Usyk to just bring in the WBA, WBO and WBC titles into a second fight against Fury later this year.

However, Fury himself has cast doubt over his future by making no immediate decisions on his next career move in the post-fight press conference.

He said: "I believe I was the best I could have been. I don't think I could have done any better.

"Maybe if they'd have said to me 'right, you're down in the last two rounds' I probably could have gone out and tried to attack him and tried to get him out of there myself.

"But other than that, I done the best I could. He's a good fighter.

"We've just had a fight, if you can see my face I'm pretty busted up and he's gone to hospital with a broken jaw, and he's busted too.

"We've punched the f*** out of each other for 12 rounds there, so we're going to go home, eat some food, drink a few beers, spend some family time, walk my dog, go to the tip and me and Frank are going to talk about what's going to happen in the future.

"I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think I'd just do a little bit more of the same, keep my defence a little bit tighter, a bit more focused, and not so much messing around because I was having fun in there.

"I was playing around, I was hitting him to the body, uppercuts to the head and I thought I was bossing the fight."

His promoter Frank Warren added: "No rush for anything, let's see if we're going to have it first."