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IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is fully focused on securing a fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury before the month of March.
Fury is slated to face Derek Chisora in a voluntary defense on December 3 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Usyk saw action in August, when he picked up another twelve round decision win over Anthony Joshua. He decided to rest for the remainder of 2022.
Usyk is not interested in facing any other opponent outside of Fury – or whoever holds the WBC world title.
“Right now my team is seeking conversations with Tyson Fury, and he is really an unpredictable person, so we can’t guarantee when,” Usyk said at a Web Summit in Lisbon.
“For me, the idea would be to fight maybe early February or the beginning of March, like March 4, because I am an orthodox Christian. During the great fasting before Easter I do not fight, so it should be all before or then after orthodox Easter [which is on April 16]. I want to fight with Fury because I need the fourth belt, and I don’t want to fight with anyone else until I have the fourth belt.”
The fight between Fury and Uysk is likely to land in the Middle East, with local organizers willing to pay a significant amount of money to secure the rights to the undisputed heavyweight fight.
“The organizers are trying to figure out where they can earn more money. For me, yes, I would really like to fight in Ukraine. The country is really capable of hosting this kind of fight,” Usyk said.
“I would be really happy to see it happen in the Olympic Arena in Ukraine. But it is not me who chooses the venue, so I guess it will be Saudi Arabia [this time].”