Tyson Fury's quest to win the undisputed heavyweight title could be facing yet another setback as Oleksandr Usyk has been ordered to face a new mandatory challenger.
The unified WBA, WBO and IBF champion defeated Anthony Joshua in an August rematch to secure his belts, but has gone over a year as champion without entertaining any mandatory challengers. And promoter Eddie Hearn, who works alongside Usyk's promoter Alexander Krassyuk to televise the Ukrainian's fights, has now received written orders for him to face Filip Hrgovic.
The IBF have ordered Hrgovic as their next mandatory for one of Usyk's three major belts, which he holds along with the Ring Magazine title and the less prestigious IBO belt. He was the WBO's mandatory for Joshua when they first fought last year, and Joshua had just beaten the WBO's mandatory Kubrat Pulev the previous December.
