According to the Ukrainian’s manager, the undisputed heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk scheduled for April 29 has been canceled.
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Egis Klimas, the Ukrainian’s manager and long-time advisor, revealed the news on Wednesday, March 22.
“No matter how much Usyk compromised, he was pushed for more,” Usyk’s manager, Egis Klimas, told boxing reporter Steve Kim, who broke the news of the breakdown of talks.
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Earlier this month, the parties agreed on a 70-30 split in favor of Fury for net revenue, but Fury and Usyk couldn’t agree on other material terms critical to the deal beyond the split.
According to sources, Usyk, a 35-year-old Ukrainian, has closed his training camp and will regroup with his team to plan his next fight.
Usyk holds the WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight titles and is ranked second in the world by ESPN. WBC champion Tyson Fury is ESPN’s No. 1 heavyweight.
Three mandatory challengers await their chance to face Usyk, but England’s Daniel Dubois is first in the boxing’s unified champions’ rotation system.
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The Gypsy King insisted last week that the fight was definitely on and that he had gone into a social media blackout while training for the fight.
However, Usyk’s manager and long-time advisor Klimas issued a firm take-it-or-leave-it statement to Fury’s team, stating that if the fight does not take place, Usyk will pivot to a mandatory defense of his WBA title against Daniel Dubois.
‘If this fight is going to happen, only April 29th,’ Klimas told SNAC. Or it will be canceled, and we will proceed with the mandatory.’
