TYSON FURY won’t fight Oleksandr Usyk until the Ukranian APOLOGISES for the collapse of their undisputed showdown.
The duo were on course to throw down for all the heavyweight marbles in the spring before Team Usyk got sick of Fury’s demands and pulled the plug on the historic bout.
REUTERSTyson Fury was due to face Oleksandr Usyk in a spring showdown at Wembley[/caption]
GETTYBut the pairs historic undisputed bout fell through[/caption]
GETTYJohn Fury insists Tyson won’t fight the Ukranian until issues a public apology[/caption]
Saudi boxing chiefs are hoping to stage the fight in December, but Fury’s dad – John – insists his son won’t take part in it unless Usyk issues a grovelling apology.
He told Seconds Out: “Until he gets on and makes a proper video explaining what he did and tells the truth, he may never get the fight with Tyson.
“It’s gone past money now with Tyson, it’s gone past everything with us. They are taking the p**s.
“He’s a nobody, Usyk. Yes, he’s won a few belts off AJ.
“But you’ve seen how AJ has been performing. AJ has not performed for a while now. And they’re judging what he done to AJ.
“Tyson will iron him out and everybody in the game knows it.”
John has accused Usyk of trying to pin the blame for the undisputed bout falling through solely on Tyson, saying: “He’s trying to do is kill two birds with one stone.
“Turn the public against Tyson, which they’ve done a good job of because the public is daft anyway. Aren’t they?
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“They believe all this rubbish [but] if they knew as much as we do, they’d be a lot better off.
“The bottom line is they never wanted the fight. Anthony Joshua never wanted the fight, Usyk never wanted the fight.
“All he wants to, him, is think that Saudi is gonna pay him silly money.
“Well I got news for you, you’re going to wait a long time.
“Unless he gets on the video and tells the truth of what he did, there’ll never be a fight for Usyk, never be. We’ll just move on.”
Usyk, 36, walked away from a 30 per cent split of the pie for Wembley war with Tyson earlier this year – which John claims would’ve earned him a whopping £17million.
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He said: “There’s only one liar and it’s him and his team.
“Because he didn’t want the fight. He thought he was going to tread where the grass is low.
“He heard through the grapevine that Tyson was injured from some other bulls***t source. And when Tyson offered him the fight, 30 per cent was too much for him.
“He still stood to make £17million at Wembley.
“And it shows how much of a liar and a coward he is when he’s boxing Daniel Dubois for peanuts compared to it. Does that make sense?
“Tyson will fight anybody anywhere in the world if the business sense is right. They’re the ones, my friend, [that are scared].”