Tyson Fury believes that he will earn double the purse he would make from fighting Anthony Joshua when he faces Oleksandr Usyk next year.
Fury, who holds the WBC world heavyweight title, expects to face the unified WBO, IBF and WBA super champion Usyk early next year in the Middle East. And he reckons that if the deal gets over the line, it will be the most lucrative fight in boxing; even more so than a potential battle of Britain with Joshua.
The two Brits were in talks to fight this month, but they broke down due to a number of factors, and Fury ended up facing Derek Chisora instead at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And after a dominant win in that trilogy bout, he has set his sights solely on dethroning Usyk and crowning himself as the undisputed No.1 heavyweight.
