The heavyweight division is now in limbo after Tyson Fury was forced to pull out of the undisputed heavyweight title fight with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17.
As Fury's training camp entered its final stages, the WBC world heavyweight champion suffered a deep cut above his right eye in sparring which will take a number of months to heal. Even once it has healed, Fury will need the green light from a doctor to start boxing.
Whenever a fight of this magnitude is postponed due to an injury in training camp, some are accusations made, none more so than from Usyk's team who perhaps jokingly suggested that this injury was a deliberate ploy to pull out of what would be the biggest fight of his career.
However, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn was quick to dismiss these conspiracy claims and stated that it's something that can happen in a sport as brutal as boxing.
"It looks like a bad cut," Hearn told iFL TV.
"I’ve seen in the footage that it’s an elbow or something like that. He spars with an open head guard, but he’s sparred thousands of rounds in his career.
"Even in my group chats with my mates saying, ‘That sounds fishy to me’, I’m like ‘Guys, what do you think? He’s not just going to go out and carve himself open with a knife!’.
"He’s trained a whole camp, it’s two weeks away from a monster pay day and a fight for the undisputed heavyweight championship.
"It’s not a hooky, it’s boxing, it happens, but it’s devastating that it happens to a fight of that magnitude."
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