Fury vs Usyk fight could face further delay

Britain’s Tyson Fury’s cousin and coach Andy Lee fears that the WBC heavyweight champion’s undisputed title clash with Oleksandr Usyk may not happen “any time soon” after a number of delays to the fight date, Daily Mail reported on Saturday.

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Fury and Usyk had discussed a potential February meeting after the Brit’s win over Derek Chisora in December, but that has been pushed back on numerous occasions with April 29 now looking like the favored date.

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However, even that has yet to be formally announced, and Lee believes the bout may be “too good to be true”.

“I haven’t seen a lot of Tyson recently,” Lee told Mirror Fighting in an exclusive chat at the launch event for Jason Quigley’s April 1 bout with Kim Poulsen in Dublin.

“We were together all the time when Joseph Parker fought [last month]. We trained before Christmas and after Christmas.

“I have no update on the fight because I haven’t spoken to him, but I don’t know – it’s on again, it’s off again, I don’t know. I don’t see it being done any time soon, it seems too good to be true.

“There’s nothing I can say about it because I don’t know anything about it, but they need to fight each other.”