Dereck Chisora and Tyson Fury have an adversarial handshake
English born, undefeated heavyweight boxer, Tyson
Fury, 25, cancelled his fight against Alexander Ustinov, 37, this
past Saturday, after his uncle Hughie Fury, was rushed to the
hospital with a blood clot that was traveling through his arteries.
Fury's uncle is in critical condition. His team decided Fury was not
in the proper frame of mind to fight due to his uncle's condition.
The bout was originally scheduled for Saturday, July
26, 2014, but was cancelled hours before the event. The fights on
the undercard went ahead as scheduled. All of this occurred after
Dereck Chisora, 30, pulled out of the fight with Fury, leading to
his sparring partner Ustinov stepping in as a replacement.
The fight should have been cancelled the moment
Chisora pulled out with an injury. Fury had no sparring sessions,
was not training to fight a 300-pound 6 foot 7 inch man and was also
just getting back in shape, after gaining weight from not fighting
for nearly two years. Fury’s last three fights have been cancelled
by opponents, citing injury.
The Judiciary Report kept pointing out before the
cancellation that Fury could suffer his first loss to Ustinov for
various reasons. Then it came out that Ustinov had done an 8-week
training camp and had been sparring with Ukrainian WBA, IBF, WBO and
IBO world champion, Wladimir Klitschko, 38.
Tyson Fury humorously told rival Alexander Ustinov "I will
inflict pain upon your big head"
Another point I brought up on promoter Frank
Warren’s Twitter page last week, which days later Ustinov questioned
as well, is how will Fury fight him when his British boxing license
is scheduled to be suspended for misconduct at a press conference
with Chisora. The British Boxing Board of Control called for a
August 14, 2014 hearing, regarding Fury’s explicit press conference
in the presence of men, women and children, making it very clear if
he refuses to attend, his boxing license will be suspended.
Days later Fury announced he will not attend the
hearing. Therefore, how is he going to fight Ustinov or Chisora in
October for that matter. Fury currently holds an Irish boxing
license, due to his ancestry, but will he be allowed to fight in
Britain with it, if a ban is imposed on his primary one.
In the meantime, Fury has gone from saying he wants
to fight Wladimir Klitschko to American knockout king, Deontay
Wilder, 28, to stating he wants to get in the ring with Haitian WBC
heavyweight champion, Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne, 35.
