Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk: Date, time, TV, pay-per-view and streaming as new fight date is confirmed

Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will be hoping its third time lucky after their fight was rescheduled again after the Gypsy King picked up a freak injury in training.

Not since Lennox Lewis in 1999 has there been an undisputed heavyweight champion but when Fury, the WBC champion, and Usyk, the WBO, IBF and WBA champion, finally meet, there will be no doubting who is top dog.

Here's what we know so far.

When will Fury v Usyk take place?

We have a third date for the fight - May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - after Fury picked up a bad cut in sparring Croatian Agron Smakici less than three weeks out from their scheduled February 17 clash. According to multiple reports, it was going to be on Saturday, December 23 only for Fury to struggle badly in his narrow win over Francis Ngannou. That date in the Middle East was filled by the supershow featuring Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder in separate fights. A date at Wembley also collapsed way back in April 2023 and now everyone is crossing their fingers that this is the final delay.

What TV channel will Fury v Usyk be on?

In a rare move, the February 17 date was going to be a pay-per-view broadcast on three different UK networks - TNT Sport PPV, DAZN and Sky Sports Box Office. We can expect the same come May.

How much will Fury v Usyk cost to watch?

The cost to watch it has not been revealed yet but the Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder show in December was priced at £19.99 so expect it to be in that region.

What has been said in the build-up to Fury-Usyk?

Fury as is customary, has let rip on the Ukrainian.

“I’m going to bust him up. Sausage. Ugly little man. Rabbit. Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run,” he said. “You know what’s coming? You’re getting smashed to pieces, sausage. You’re fighting the best British heavyweight there’s ever been.

“You’ve beaten the rest of them, but you haven’t beaten Tyson Fury, sausage. You can never beat me. If you beat me in your dreams you better wake up and apologise. I stole that from Muhammad Ali, I apologise. When you sleep at night ugly man you’re going to think of me for the next eight weeks. I’m going to punch your face in. You ugly little man.”

Usyk is a man of far fewer words and vowed to do his talking in the ring. “I will speak in the ring. Every time Tyson Fury speaks a lot. For me it doesn’t matter,” he said.

At their press conference to promote the scrapped February 17 date, the pair went head-to-head, literally, in the face-off that followed and had to be pulled apart by security. Sylvester Stallone, AKA Rocky, was there to oversee it all.

How do Fury and Usyk's records compare?

Both boxers are undefeated, with Fury winning 34 fights with one draw and Usyk having a 21-0 record.

The Ukrainian, a former undisputed champion at cruiserweight, has already beaten Anthony Joshua twice, as well as defeating Derek Chisora and Tony Bellew. Last time out in Poland in August he knocked out a fourth Brit, Daniel Dubois, to retain his titles.

Fury's last outing against a fully-fledged boxer saw him beat Dereck Chisora for a third time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last December. It was the meeting with Ngannou that nearly ruined everything though, the former UFC star giving Fury the fright of his life on his boxing debut, only for the 'Gypsy King' to prevail on points over 10 rounds in Saudi Arabia in October.

What is the £10million bet for the new date?

Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi politician masterminding their boxing operations, has put a penalty clause in place for the May 18 date. Any fighter who pulls out has to pay £10million out of their own pocket, such is the mounting frustration around the delays to the fight taking place.

Who is on the undercard?

The February 17 undercard was as follows. How many of these fights transfer to May 18 remains to be seen.

• Jai Opetaia vs Mairis Breidis - Vacant IBF cruiserweight championship
• Joe Cordina vs Anthony Cacace - IBF super featherweight championship
• Sergey Kovalev vs Robin Sirwan Safar
• Isaac Lowe vs Hasibullah Ahmadi
• David Nyika vs TBC
• Bakhodir Jalolov vs TBC
• Moses Itauma vs Ilja Mezencev