It's fight week, and both Team Fury and Team Usyk have arrived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ahead of the undisputed clash shaping up at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.
But hostilities seem to have already ensued as there's a reported physical confrontation between the two entourages.
John Fury, father of Tyson ended up with a bloody face after it was all over.
He reportedly crossed paths with Stanislav Stepchuk, headbutted another individual but incidentally was rather the one who came out with a crimson-drenched visage; sustaining a cut towards the top of his nose.
Fury, who looks ripped, ready and really focused on the bout denied witnessing the incident because it took place while he was fulfilling some of his media obligations, but having learned of it, when he was then asked, he cut a composed figure, brushing off its significance:
“I didn’t see anything,” he said. “I was in the room doing interviews for [broadcaster] Sky Sports, but I’m not here for all that, I’m here to get the job done and go home and rest.
“They do what they do. I’ve definitely seen worse than a cut on the head.”
John Fury was found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in 2011,having attempted to gouge out a man’s eye in a brawl in 2010. His victim Oathie Sykes was left half-blind; Fury was handed an 11-year sentence, of which he served four.
He has also been known to consistently call out Mike Tyson for a boxing match: a man after whom he named his son Fury at birth and predicted he would Heavyweight Champ.
The bout happens on May 18 and should be a classic.
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