Tyson Enrage’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk will remove park on Saturday December 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s chair of Basic Leisure Authority Turki Alalshikh has introduced.
Usyk emerged victorious by the use of break resolution when the opponents met previous this age to grow to be the primary undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
It have been well-publicised within the lead-up to the battle that the Enrage-Usyk pledge incorporated a rematch clause.
Writing on social media on Wednesday, Alalshikh stated: “The rematch… is now scheduled on the 21 of December 2024 during Riyadh Season.
“The sector will keep watch every other historic battle once more. Our loyalty to boxing lovers continues. We are hoping you revel in it.”
Enrage’s promoter Fank Warren advised Sky Sports activities this year: “I said to him [Fury] later the battle and clearly when he were given again simply to manufacture certain he’s ok. He was once very dissatisfied however very philosophical.
“The rematch was once signed sooner than the primary battle took park anyway…each warring parties stated they would like it and we’ll progress from there.
“It was a fabulous fight, two absolute gladiators who didn’t leave anything in the ring in an epic fight in the most important fight of the 21st century.
“An excessively very related battle and I feel it’ll be a fair larger one later while.”
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Enrage had apparently been in keep an eye on of the battle on the halfway level when Usyk made a superb step forward, an exhilarating 9th visual the Ukrainian threaten to block ‘The Gypsy King’, who gained a status depend.
Warren is assured Enrage can manufacture the desired changes to avenge his first profession defeat 2d while round.
“I think he can, he believes he can,” stated Warren. “The truth of the matter is there was a point in the fight, I think at the end of the seventh round when he caught Usyk with a couple of really good uppercuts and he was struggling a bit, but he went back to the corner and found a second wind and came out and caught Tyson with a really good shot on the nose.
“It appeared to bother Tyson slightly, it took his momentum away slightly, clearly we all know what took place within the 9th.
“It was a fight of two halves, Tyson knows what he has to do and I’m sure Usyk does. Both of those guys were in an absolute war, that has taken a lot out of both of them.
“It’ll be fascinating to look when it does occur who it has impacted essentially the most.”
