CARL FROCH has launched a stinging attack on Tyson Fury after the Gypsy King suffered a horror cut that caused his fight with Oleksandr Usyk to be postponed.
Fury was due to contest in the first four-belt heavyweight unification on February 17 in Saudi Arabia against Usyk.
But with just two weeks to go, disaster struck after he suffered a gruesome gash in sparring that required over ten stitches.
Initially, former super-middleweight world champion Froch – who has been embroiled in a feud with Fury’s dad John – blamed the Gypsy King.
He said on his YouTube channel: “I don’t think there’s any excuse for him to get cut. And you’re gonna say, ‘Oh well he got cut, it happens.’
“It never happened to me. Didn’t happen that often to a lot of top worlds champions, I could go through the list, Floyd Mayweather to Canelo Alvarez.
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“You can go down the list to all these tens and 20, 30 world title fights back to back to back with no pullouts from injuries.
“It never happened to me because I used to wear a face guard. I put a face guard on.
“You might see Tyson, he’s got these cheekbone protectors on his face guard.
“Close to a fight, two weeks before he could be putting a face guard protector on so you’ve got a bar on in front of your face.
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“No elbows or sharp edges of the gloves can get through so you mitigate getting injured.
“You don’t get any thumbs in the eye, you don’t get an elbow in the side of the eye. Stuff doesn’t get through
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“And that’s what you should be doing. In a fight of this magnitude you should be taking massive precautions.
“So I’m blaming his trainer, or himself or his team for not taking that precaution by wearing this face guard whether you’re uncomfortable in it or not.”
The fight has since been rescheduled to May 18 and both Fury and Usyk have agreed to forfeit £10MILLION of their own cash if they pull out.
Froch – a self-professed flat-Earther – later softened up on his stance after Fury showed off the extent of his gruesome gash.
He said: “We’ve seen the cut now, I did want to see it. I said, I love a conspiracy. But I wanted to see the stitches, I wanted to see the cut.
“Doesn’t look fresh to me, doesn’t look like an acute injury. The bruising is coming out, the swelling is coming down. The stitching is all scabbed up.
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“But regardless of what you think about all that, he’s got a cut and the fight is now rescheduled.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
