Tyson Fury reveals update on eye injury ahead of undisputed world title fight YouTube: Matchroom BoxingTyson Fury has insisted he will be fighting Oleksandr Usyk \u201ccut eye or not\u201d after he picked up the injury in sparring last month. Fury and Usyk were due to clash in a huge fight on February 17 in Saudi Arabia. However, the injury sustained by the the Gypsy King in sparring meant he needed 11 stitches as the bout was postponed. The fight has now been rescheduled for May 18, with Fury commencing his training camp at the end of the month. Fury has flown out to Saudi Arabia ahead of Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou, lending his support to Roman Fury, his younger brother, ahead of his bout against Martin Svarc. And during Wednesday\u2019s press conference, Fury was asked for an update on his injury. Tyson Fury provides update on cut eye \u201cI\u2019m not concerned I never was concerned about the cut,\u201d he told DAZN. \u201cIt was from cut date to fight date 15 weeks. A cut heals in about eight, nine weeks, I had plenty of time. \u201cAnd if the cut opens, opens in the fight, f**k it. It\u2019s gonna be blood everywhere. \u201cSo why not, don\u2019t stop the fight, let it continue. It\u2019s an undisputed heavyweight championship fight.\u201d Asked if his eye was likely to cause any further issues ahead of the fight, Fury was adamant it would not hold him back. \u201cWhen I start camp at the end of March I\u2019ll be ready for sparring,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was a freak accident. You know, I think he just threw like a hook\u2026but make no mistake\u2026I will be fighting \u2013 cut eye or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyson Fury reveals update on eye injury ahead of undisputed world title fight YouTube: Matchroom BoxingTyson Fury has insisted he will be fighting Oleksandr Usyk \u201ccut eye or not\u201d after he picked up the injury in sparring last month. Fury and Usyk were due to clash in a huge fight on February 17 in Saudi […]<\/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-21744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744","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=21744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}