At the end of last October it started to be written anger and Usyk They face each other in the month of February and in Saudi Arabia to find out who proudly wears the weighty crown as the undisputed king of the division.
In the month of November, the officialization of the fight between the two was made public, and now the World Boxing Council (WBC) He remembered the scene of the train crash and the scene, on February 17 and in Saudi Arabia, where at the end of the year there was a night with some of the boxers whose hands were the heaviest.
Before their victory Francis Ngannou in the ‘Battle of the baddest’, Tyson Fury returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to fight the Oleksandr Usyk and crown the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999. WBC champion Tyson ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury will face the unified WBO, IBF and WBA champion, Oleksandr Usykin a historic match on Saturday, February 17 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Date with history
This fight will mark a before and after in boxing history and in the history of heavyweights, as the winner will become the first undisputed heavyweight champion in boxing since Lennox Lewis He claimed that honor 24 years ago. For the first time in history, all four belts were at stake and the winner was, without a doubt, the undisputed king of the division, in a night dubbed the ‘Ring of Fire’.
Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs) is the current heavyweight champion since November 2015. After nearly three years away from boxing due to personal challenges, Fury made a memorable comeback by losing Deontay Wilder to claim the WBC world title.
Oleksander Usyk (21-0, 14 K0s), an Olympic gold medalist, became the undisputed cruiserweight champion, before moving up to the heavyweight division. He surprised many with his defeat in August 2022 Anthony Joshua and secure the unified heavyweight championship. Usyk defended his titles in a rematch against Joshua and then again Daniel Dubois this year, in his only match this year.
Source: La Verdad
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