Hearn blasts Fury amid negotiations for huge bout against Usyk
‘F*** OFF, you want too much money and the fight isn’t as big as you think’: Eddie Hearn blasts Tyson Fury amid talks over huge unification bout against Oleksandr Usyk in extraordinary rant
- Eddie Hearn launched an extraordinary rant aimed at Tyson Fury on Thursday
- Negotiations between Fury and Oleksandr Usyk’s team have stalled recently
- Hearn suggested that Fury was demanding ‘too much money’ for the fight
Eddie Hearn has claimed that Tyson Fury is demanding ‘too much money’ in negotiations for a unification bout against Oleksandr Usyk.
An undisputed heavyweight title fight between the Brit and Ukrainian has been touted for many months now, yet there is still no official confirmation over the bout.
Fellow promoter Frank Warren suggested this week the ‘pot’ may not be enough to tempt the ‘Gypsy King’ into a bout with Usyk and now Hearn has taken aim at Fury.
Speaking to IFL TV, Hearn said: ‘When are you guys out there going to start understanding? “It’s not about the money” “I’ll fight him for free” “As long as the tickets are free for the general public”.
‘F*** off. You want money. You want too much money. You’re not the draw you think you are. That fight’s not as big as it is.
Tyson Fury (L) and Oleksandr Usyk’s potential undisputed heavyweight title fight is in jeopardy
Eddie Hearn ripped into the ‘Gypsy King’ for financial demands made in the negotiations
‘If you are about legacy and you want to be undisputed, then you take the fight. So you’ll get £50m or £60m instead of the £80m or £100m or £125m that you asked for.’
The mouth-watering clash has had fans on tenterhooks for months however the recent rumblings have suggested a breakdown in communication between the parties.
And Hearn isn’t the only getting frustrated by the hold-up in negotiations, as Warren similarly suggested that financial demands were obstructing the fight.
He told talkSPORT: ‘We’re still none the wiser. You need the agreement of both boxers to make it happen and at the moment we haven’t got that.
‘I have a pot and can only pay what’s in it. If it’s not enough money, then it won’t happen.’
‘Out of courtesy I’m telling you where we are, but I’m not going to be conducting negotiations at the moment they’re confidential between the two parties.
‘But, I would say it’s not going to go past the end of this week that’s for sure because the proposed date is April 29.’
The winner of the fight would become boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 2000.
Usyk was the undisputed cruiserweight champion until 2019, but vacated the titles in order to fight as a heavyweight.
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