HOW concerned are you that Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk won’t fight, as you hope, on December 23?
I can’t say I’m concerned, because though we respect Fury as the [WBC] champ, we can’t really claim he’s a man of his word, according to what we had in the past. The good thing is that we have it on paper. Of course he can use any kind of excuse – that he got injured; he got cut; he got tired, or whatever – but this is the point where the commitment has to be executed.
If you take the decision to participate in the biggest fight of the century in the heavyweight division, and you are marinating the public for so long, it can’t last that long. At some point it has to happen – and now is the