The highly anticipated fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk is less than two weeks away, but Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh is already preparing for the rematch. Regardless of the result on the 18th of May, the pair won’t have to wait long to share the ring again.
An immediate rematch was a contractual clause agreed to when Fury and Usyk agreed to meet for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world – and Alalshikh has already booked the contest to kick-off the latest edition of Riyadh Season.
Speaking to ESPN, His Excellency called Fury vs Usyk the “crown jewel of his efforts” to rebuild the sport of boxing and declared that he plans to stage the rematch on either the 12th or 13th of October this year. That means that both men will have less than five months to recover from their first encounter before being obliged to step back into the ring.
Fury seemingly has no problem with the timeline, telling the same outlet recently: “I’m being paid a s*** tonne of money from Saudi not to turn up and do a boxing fight, but to put on a show and put Saudi on the map. So that’s what I’m gonna do, what I’m being paid for; Put on a show. The world’s largest travelling showman, me, ‘The Gypsy King’.”
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