TYSON FURY has shared an image of his blood-soaked headguard moments after he suffered a fight-postponing cut in sparring.
The Gypsy King was last week forced to push back his historic undisputed heavyweight title fight with Oleksandr Usyk after sustaining a horror gash above his right eye.
An accidental elbow from sparring partner Agron Smakici re-opened the scar tissue left from the 2019 cut Fury suffered against Otto Wallin.
Footage of the incident was quickly released after the fight was officially postponed, and now Fury has taken to Instagram to share a snap of the head guard and gloves he donned for the ill-fated spar.
Blood was visible on the right side of the head guard and was partially smeared on both of the white gloves he wore.
Saudi boxing kingpin Turki Alalshikh moved quickly to secure a new date for the first undisputed heavyweight title fight in nearly 25 years after Fury’s unfortunate cut.
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Fury and Usyk, 35 and 37 respectively, will now throw down in the Kingdom on May 18.
WBC king Fury said of the unfortunate postponement: “This is not a blessing in disguise, but I take God’s will as it comes.
“I was 100 per cent confident I was going to knock Usyk out. I was 100 per cent ready.
“Why would I not want to fight for the biggest payday of my life?”
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He added: “We got a new fight date. Very, very quickly – I suppose that was upsetting to a lot of people, but refreshing to a lot of good people.
“Massive shoutout to Turki Alalshikh, they made the new date possible so quickly.”
“In life, sometimes s***y things happen to you but you never let it get to you.
“You always keep moving forward. Look at that b*****d right there. Woah.
“Nice little elbow right in the eye. Nearly cost me the biggest fight in my career. But what can you do, s**t happens.”
Fury and Usyk will both be on the hook for £8million if they pull out of their rescheduled Riyadh rumble.
Alalshikh said on The MMA Hour: “I have delayed it for May 18, I guarantee for both of the fighters £*million if someone escapes from the fight.
“We will make the people around the world know if someone is scared.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
