Oleksandr Usyk agrees to 70/30 purse split offer from Tyson Fury
Oleksandr Usyk sensationally accepted Tyson Fury’s offer of a 70-30 split for a world heavyweight title unification fight in the Brit’s favour, as long as Fury donates £1m to Ukraine.
The unified world heavyweight titlist and former undisputed cruiserweight champion responded to Fury's ultimatum with this message: "Hey Greedy Belly, I accept your offer 70-30 split the fight, with you on April 29th at Wembley."
However, there was a specific condition involved, "But you will promise to donate to Ukraine immediately after the fight £1million. And every day if you delay will pay one per cent from your purse to Ukrainian people."
This message was posted in direct response to WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury's offer from earlier on in the day, "I see all this talk of boxing fights, they want 50%, Tyson's being greedy… where I'm standing, Usyk, you and your team are worth 30%. You either take it or you leave it.
"And if you don't want it, I will fight Daniel Dubois at the Copper Box and get a few million dollars. You want to make some real money? Come and fight The Gypsy King. But I will say that every day, from today, that you linger and mess around, I'm going to deduct 1% from the 30%.
"So every day I'm going to deduct 1% until you take it. And if don't take it, I'll fight Dubois for $2million. Not a problem.
"But how in the world could you's ever offer me a deal? Not possible. Tick tock, tick tock."
Usyk's immediate acceptance came as a surprise to most, especially after such drawn out talks had failed to materialise anything promising, but Fury didn't stay silent for long, immediately posting an explicit message back to the Ukrainian, "Usyk, you little sh*tbag, sign the contract, get your money and get f***ed up! You little sh*thouse, you little gappy tooth ugly bastard, sign the contract!"
The World Boxing Association then rehearsed this statement: "WBA President Gilberto Mendoza received confirmation from Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury's teams that there is an agreement to make the unification fight. They request time to work on the contracts to close the deal."
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