Conspiracies, cuts and collapses: The treacherous road to Fury vs Usyk
Tyson Fury and his entourage during a media day in Riyadh ahead of the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight title fight against Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday May 18
It was the cut that led to the collapse and the conspiracies: a gash over Tyson Fury’s right eye, derailing his undisputed title fight with Oleksandr Usyk on two weeks’ notice and giving way to claims that the wound was self-inflicted.
These suggestions were, frankly, nonsensical. Fury looked as fit as he had ever been when he was sliced open by a stray elbow in sparring in February, finally ready to put an end to a drawn-out boxing saga but thwarted by severe misfortune.
