Exclusive: Frank Warren promises Tyson Fury’s next fight will be a ‘game changer’ that will ‘surprise everyone’ with announcement expected imminently
- Frank Warren is hoping to announce Tyson Fury’s next opponent imminently
- Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk is more likely to take place in early 2024 than December
Boxing fans are still eagerly awaiting the confirmation of Tyson Fury‘s next opponent after being relentlessly teased with ‘imminent announcements’ from ‘The Gypsy King’.
But his promoter Frank Warren has today confirmed that all speculation will be put to bed in the coming days when they finally release Fury’s upcoming opponent and fight date.
The Queensbury Promotions chief promises that the fight is a ‘game changer’ and one that ‘will surprise everyone’.
He told Sportsmail: ‘They’ll be an announcement soon, it will be quite interesting, everybody is going to be quite surprised.’
When pressed on whether it would be a top 15 heavyweight, Warren replied: ‘It’s going to be a game changer.’
Frank Warren promises that Tyson Fury’s next opponent will be announced in the coming days
Fury has been out of the ring since December when he defeated Derek Chisora for a third time
Warren has revealed that if Oleksandr Usyk vs Fury does happen then it will be in early 2024
Once Fury’s next fight is wrapped up, Skills Challenge Promotions are hoping to stage the long-awaited undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk over in Saudi Arabia.
At first, there were discussions about staging it in December on the same card as Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder but according to Warren those plans have now been diverted to the first quarter of 2024.
This comes after talkSPORT‘s Simon Jordan reported that Fury would not be available for the back end of the year.
Although Warren wouldn’t confirm whether this was true he did mention that he may not be depending on when Fury’s next fight lands.
‘I’m not going to get into that all we are focusing on his next fight at the moment and depending on what date we announce it he may not be available,’ he continued.
‘There may not be a December anyway because Amer [Abdallah], who is the Skills Challenge Head of Boxing, he said they were looking to put whatever they are looking to put together in the first quarter of 2024 anyway.’
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