{"id":790656,"date":"2026-10-03T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:30:08","slug":"oleksandr-usyk-makes-final-decision-on-tyson-fury-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790656\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk makes final decision on Tyson Fury trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Tyson Fury<\/a>, Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> has made up his mind about whether he would entertain a trilogy showdown with \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 in 2027.<\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s first encounter took place in May 2024, when Usyk edged a split decision after coming on strong down the stretch and scoring a ninth-round knockdown.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the Ukrainian became a two-division undisputed champion and reigned as the first heavyweight to hold all four major belts.<\/p>\n

Usyk then defended his crown against Fury in December 2024, controlling large portions of their rematch to claim a more comprehensive unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, Fury announced his retirement after failing to secure a trilogy, only to return with a unanimous decision triumph over Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> last April.<\/p>\n

Then came the news that he would finally collide with Anthony Joshua later this year, with the 38-year-old completing his second warm-up fight by stopping Mariusz Wach in seven rounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But while it has been announced that he will, indeed, square off with \u2018AJ\u2019 on December 11, Fury has told IFL TV<\/a> that he is treating this as yet another warm-up for the final fight of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanna punch this bum [Joshua] into smithereens as a warm-up, and [then] I want a trilogy with the rabbit [Usyk].<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to Alex about it and he\u2019s up for it next year \u2013 first quarter [of] next year \u2013 in what will be the icing on the cake of a long, luxurious career would be Joshua in Cardiff then Usyk at Madison Square Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury went on to highlight New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden as a potential venue, while Usyk is already exploring stateside opportunities for his next outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk has made up his mind about whether he would entertain a trilogy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}