Amer Abdallah, of promotional company Skill Challenge Entertainment of Saudi Arabia, indicates that a lucrative offer is going to be presented to WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Abdallah’s company recently signed WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Earlier in the year, Fury and Usyk were in serious negotiations to finalize an undisputed fight for a date in April at Wembley Stadium in London.
Their talks fell through when both fighters were unable to agree on the financial terms for the rematch.
Skill Challenge are looking to stage a fight between Usyk and Fury in the month of December in Saudi Arabia.
Usyk will first make a mandatory defense against WBA ‘regular’ champion Daniel Dubois in August.
Should everything go as planned, Usyk would like to return in December against Fury.
However, Abdallah cautions that Skill Challenge is not looking to have a back-and-forth negotiation with Fury. They plan to send him a significant offer – and then it will be up to Fury if he intends to take it.
“The premium offer will be coming soon, it will be based on the market value and demand of the fight. Tyson is frustrated, he wants to fight. If he can land something in September or October and then clear himself for December, we would love to make that offer,” Abdallah told Talk Sport.
“It will be a premium price, we would never insult anybody with the offer. Prince Khaled when he makes an offer, they are big offers and he has no problem doing that. He is backed by the Ministry of Sport and everybody within the region. The offer will be there but it’s not going be a negotiation, it will be ‘Here’s a great premium price’. We would love to make the fight happen.
“It’s very easy sometimes in boxing for us to pound our chest and say ‘Take it or leave it’ but I would never want to insult somebody by saying ‘Listen, here’s the offer, take it or leave it’. Even if the offer was phenomenal, that’s not how you do business. We know going into this that the offer is very fair offer. We would love to work with Tyson and bring him to the Kingdom.”