Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are scheduled to battle for the undisputed heavyweight championship on pay-per-view Saturday in Saudi Arabia.

TYSON FURY (34-0-1, 24 KOs)
VS. OLEKSANDR USYK (21-0, 14 KOs)

  • Date: Saturday, Could 18
  • Time: 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT (most important occasion later in present)
  • The place: Kingdom Enviornment, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • TV/Stream: DAZN Pay-Per-View
  • Division: Heavyweight (no restrict)
  • At stake: Usyk’s IBF, WBA, WBO and Fury’s WBC titles
  • Boxing Junkie Pound-for-pound: Usyk No. 3, Fury No. 9
  • Odds: Even (common of a number of retailers)
  • Significance (as much as 5 stars): *****
  • Additionally on the cardboard: Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Breidis, cuiserweights (for vacant IBF title); Joe Cordina vs. Anthony Cacace junior lightweights (for Cordina’s IBF title); Sergey Kovalev vs. Robin Safar, cruiserweights; Agit Kabayel vs. Frank Sanchez, heavyweights; Mark Chamberlain vs. Joshua Wahab, lightweights
  • Background: The time is lastly at hand. Speak of a Fury-Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight championship began the second Usyk defeated Anthony Joshua the primary of two occasions in September 2021. The battle was initially scheduled for Feb. 17 but it surely was pushed again after Fury suffered a lower throughout sparring. Fury is coming off arguably the worst efficiency of his profession, a break up resolution over Francis Ngannou within the MMA star’s boxing debut. Fury battled again from a knockdown within the third spherical however was lucky to have his hand raised. He was thought by many to be ill-prepared for the battle, a mistake he won’t have made main as much as the battle on Saturday. The 35-year-old from England appears to be in wonderful bodily situation. Usyk additionally didn’t give his finest effort in his most up-to-date battle, towards Daniel Dubois in August. The 37-year-old former 200-pound champion went down from a physique shot that was controversially deemed a low blow within the fifth spherical, which gave him additional time to get better. He rebounded to cease Dubois within the ninth to retain his titles.
  • Prediction: Fury UD