Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk festive fight verified
Originally slated for October, the Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk rematch is now being planned for December 21st, 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has confirmed.
HE Turki Alalshikh tweeted the following news today: “The rematch between the Undisputed Champion Oleksandr Usyk and the Champion Tyson Fury is now scheduled on the 21 of December 2024 during Riyadh Season… The world will watch another historical fight again… Our commitment to boxing fans continues… We hope you enjoy it…”
On May 18, Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury had to accept his first ever loss in the pros, but the scores were razor thin at 114-113 both ways, with Spanish judge Manuel Oliver Palomo’s 115-112 verdict handing the historic win to Usyk.
Now, the heavyweight heroes are set to do it all over, with the stakes just as high, the anticipation set to reach feverish levels once more, and the outcome just as impossible to pick yet again.
Although Usyk triumphed that special night in the desert, it was the British behemoth Fury that started the brighter fighter. The Ukrainian won the first round on all three judges’ scorecards, but then Fury went on to win many of the rounds from the second to the seventh.
Comfortably ahead, Usyk then began to turn up the heat in the eighth, then secured a crucial 10-8 round in the ninth, after he caught the far bigger boxer with a long-reaching left hook that staggered the 6-foot-nine giant all around the ring until the ropes holding him up triggered a standing count.
Fury won the final round on all the ringside judges cards, but it wasn’t quite enough to clinch the win after losing rounds 8-11 on two of the officials’ cards.
The rematch will be even bigger than the first encounter, which crowned the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the century, after Lennox Lewis held the crown last, over 25 years ago.