Chaos erupts as John Fury headbutts member of Oleksandr Usyk camp before fight IFLTVTyson Fury\u2019s father, John Fury, was left with blood on his face after he headbutted a member of Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s team in the build up to the undisputed world heavyweight title fight in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, May 18. Fight week for Fury vs Usyk has begun in controversial style after a heated exchange between members of Fury and Usyk\u2019s camps ended in violence. A row in a hotel lobby was caught on camera as John, 59, and a member of Usyk\u2019s team were engaged in a heated conversation that culminated in Fury\u2019s father throwing a headbutt. He was then held back by security as blood poured down his face from a cut that opened on his forehead following the altercation. Chants of \u201cUsyk, Usyk, Usyk\u201d erupted as John was then led away from the scene. Fury, who was in a separate room at the time, later emerged and asked what happened to his father\u2019s head. John then turned to the crowd and said, \u201cThe greatest show on earth has begun. Enjoy. This is what it\u2019s about. Enjoy the entertainment, this is it,\u201d before then launching his own rendition of \u201cFury, Fury, Fury\u201d chants. All the eyes of the boxing world are on Fury and Usyk ahead of their fight at the Kingdom Arena, Saudi Arabia, this weekend. Despite Fury being initially forced into postponing the first scheduled date for the fight, the WBC champion has reiterated his commitment that he will be touching gloves with Usyk \u201ccut eye or not\u201d. Fury\u2019s promoter, Frank Warren, has also warned his fighter that the Ukrainian will target the cut on his eye, despite backing him to get the job done over Usyk within 12 rounds. For all the biggest results and upcoming fights this year, check out Dexerto\u2019s 2024 boxing schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chaos erupts as John Fury headbutts member of Oleksandr Usyk camp before fight IFLTVTyson Fury\u2019s father, John Fury, was left with blood on his face after he headbutted a member of Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s team in the build up to the undisputed world heavyweight title fight in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, May 18. Fight week for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}