WBC heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has claimed that the UFC has offered him a ‘hybrid fight’ with their heavyweight champion, Jon Jones.
Over the last twelve months, the 34-year-old Fury has been trading words with both Jones and former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.
Ngannou, who left the UFC when his contract expired, has been pushing for a boxing match with Fury for well over a year.
Jones, who capture Ngannou’s vacant UFC title, is also heavily interested in facing Fury in a boxing ring.
UFC President Dana White, who often rejects the idea of matching one of his stars in a cross-sports fight, likes the idea of matching Jones against Fury – although White would like the contest to happen under MMA rules in the cage.
Fury indicates that he’s been approached by the UFC to have a ‘hybrid fight’ with Jones, but nothing was revealed regarding what the rules would be for such a fight.
“I’ve been in talks with Francis Ngannou for a hybrid fight,” Fury said on a Twitter Spaces stream. “There’s talks of me and Jon Jones doing a hybrid fight, as we talk right now. I received an offer from the UFC yesterday. So, you never know what’s going to happen. The future’s bright for sure, and there’s a lot of options out there.”
Fury does admit that he’s having a tough time locking down an opponent for his next fight, with attempts to lock in several possible foes falling through.
“It seems, at the moment, I’m struggling to get an actual boxing opponent. Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, did an interview on a podcast recently, and he said: ‘Tyson’s a victim of his own success. He’s that good, people don’t want to fight him. They’d rather fight someone else.’ That’s what I’m experiencing right now. I think I’ve called out everybody in the top 15 in the heavyweight division in the last six months, and I’m still without an opponent, as we speak today,” Fury said.