TYSON FURY has confirmed he wants a greedy 70 per cent of the purse for an undisputed decider with Oleksandr Usyk.
And the ruthless WBC Gypsy King will slash at his meagre 30 per cent cut every day until he caves.
The 34-year-old Brit – who claims he has more money than he could spend in 50 lifetimes and would have boxed Anthony Joshua for free – turned down a 50-50 split for a showdown in Saudi Arabia.
Usyk – the 36-year-old WBA, IBF and WBO champ who just did the double over AJ – signed up for the Riyadh row only for Fury to welch when he was told it was an even split.
Morecambe’s monster has dragged the bout to Wembley stadium on April 29, on the proviso he gets the lion’s share of the mega-money deal that would sell out the 94,000 seater.
But proud Usyk – a London 2012 gold winner and undisputed cruiserweight champ – is so far refusing to be financially bullied by the 6ft 9in showman.
So Fury is trying even harder to underpay the Ukraine icon – who has spent time on his nation’s front line.
While walking around a shopping centre he growled on Instagram: “I see all this talk of boxing fights and ‘Usyk wants 50 per cent’ and ‘Tyson is being greedy’.
“But – where I am standing – Usyk and his team are only worth 30 per cent.
“You either take it or you leave it.”
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Fury did incredible business in his last two bouts, convincing a combined total of 154,000 people to buy tickets to see him dominate Dillian Whyte at Wembley and then Derek Chisora at a freezing Tottenham stadium in December.
So he feels like he should be able to call the shots on how the huge pot – made up of ticket and pay-per-view sales – will be carved up.
He also shrewdly knows his Queensberry stablemate Daniel Dubois is the mandatory challenger for Usyk’s WBA belt.
And the sanctioning body will order that fight soon, if the four-belt super-fight is not secured, while he is relaxed with no nominated contender for his green and gold single belt.
“If you don’t want it, go and fight Daniel Dubois at the Copper Box and gert a few million dollars,” he added.
“You want to make some real money, come and fight the Gypsy King.
“I will say, for every day from today that you linger, mess around, I will deduct one per cent from the 30 per cent.
“So every day I will deduct one per cent, until you take it. And if you don’t take it then fight Dubois for two million dollars, not a problem.
“But how in the world could you ever offer me a deal? Not possible. Tick tock, tick tock, p*****s.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
