Tyson Fury sets seven-day deadline for unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk

The winner would become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999-2000, only the sixth of all time and the first of the four-belt era
Tyson Fury sets seven-day deadline for unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk

UNDISPUTED?: Tyson Fury wants a possible fight with Oleksandr Usyk arranging by September 1. Pic: Nick Potts/PA

Tyson Fury has set a seven-day deadline to arrange a unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

Usyk retained his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO belts after winning his rematch with Anthony Joshua on Saturday while Fury, who retired after beating Dillian Whyte in April, holds the WBC belt.

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