TYSON FURY is gutted that his undisputed showdown with Oleksandr Usyk collapsed – even if he’ll never show it.
Late on Tuesday night, the six-month talks went up in smoke over the purse split of the rematch.
WBC champ Fury, 34 had already squeezed every penny out of the 36-year-old WBA, IBF and WBO boss by getting 70-30 of the April 29 Wembley showdown and Uysk wanted the same deal if he won in London and they secured a rerun.
The Gypsy King, who has already held all of Usyk’s three belts after he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, insists the ultimate four-belt supremacy means nothing to him.
But American trainer SugarHill Steward says his ever-bullish protege will be bruised by this super-fight collapsing: “Of course Tyson is down, he wants to fight.
“He’ll fight any heavyweight with a big name. Tyson was ready, Tyson is always ready.
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“He would fight after an eight-week camp, I tell him he only needs six because he is old school. Tyson is old school so he is always training.”
When asked if the frustrating failure to secure the biggest fight in boxing could send Fury spiralling back toward his mental health problems, Steward said: “It can happen to anyone, it can happen to me, anyone.”
Fury currently has no mandatory challenger for his WBC crown – unlike Usyk, who has to face WBA mandatory Daniel Dubois this summer – so he can pick his next opponent.
And Steward – in Manchester to train WBO cruiserweight champ Lawrence Okolie for his Saturday night defence against David Light – says any big man, with a big profile, can step into the fray with as little as one month’s warning.
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The Kronk gym mastermind said: “I want Tyson to fight anyone who is willing to get in there and fight him without all this contractual baggage. Anyone like that will get that fight made.
“If you need ten weeks to train for another man, you ain’t in boxing.
“You should already be in shape, you should not have a lot of weight to lose, and if you need to lose weight, it would come off in a heartbeat.
“Those long training camps are for fighters who are not ready, who are out of shape and haven’t been doing anything.
“In the old days, people didn’t need a 12-week camp because they had a world title fight eight weeks after their last fight.
“Guys stayed in shape, boxing was their lifestyle, as it should be. It’s Tyson’s lifestyle, as it should, he can fight anyone on four weeks’ notice.”
Fury himself launched and extraordinary x-rated rant accusing Usyk of ‘running’ from their now-dead undisputed heavyweight showdown.
a frustrated Fury took to Instagram on Thursday to say: “Uysk, you proper little s***bag, bog-eyed, gappy-teethed, ugly little rat b*****d
“You little slimy f****r. [You] tried all week to get out of it [the fight] begging for the rematch.
“You proper little s***bag, bog-eyed, gappy-teethed, ugly little rat b*****d. You tried all week to get to it, begging like a little girl. You got your rematch and you didn’t even want to fight at that.
“You little s***house p***y. Always know, p***y, that you were never man enough to tangle with the Gypsy King ever in your life, you little s***thouse.
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“You little 14-stone coward. You little s***bag, you rat little b*****d.
“Your full team know as well and all the lawyers have got [the] full information.”
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