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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Harry Davies

Tyson Fury accused of holding up four-man heavyweight tournament featuring Anthony Joshua

Oleksandr Usyk 's manager has insisted Tyson Fury is the only fighter preventing a four-man heavyweight tournament from happening in December.

Talks have opened over an illustrious event which would see Anthony Joshua face Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury fight Oleksandr Usyk at the end of the year in Saudi Arabia. Alex Krassyuk, who manages Usyk, has stated both Joshua and Wilder are easy to negotiate with but Fury's "complex personality" has been a stumbling block in discussing the tournament.

“From my perspective and from my experience, ‘AJ’ is not a very complicated person to deal with. Deontay Wilder and Shelley Finkel are very reasonable people … we got in touch with him a couple of weeks ago for the first time in 10 years and we had quite a long conversation. I don't think it would be a big challenge for anyone to make a deal with him Klismas told BT Sport Boxing.

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