The blood has already began flowing.
John Fury, the daddy of Tyson Fury, headbutted a member of Oleksandr Usyk’s group after an trade of phrases 5 days earlier than the heavyweights are set to satisfy for the undisputed championship Saturday in Saudi Arabia on DAZN Pay-Per-View.
The conflict of heads, with Stanislav Stepchuk, prompted on a minimize on the elder Fury’s brow.
He apologized afterward in an interview with Seconds Out.
“Honest apologies to all people concerned to be trustworthy with you,” Fury stated on video. “It’s simply the best way we’re. Feelings and tensions are working excessive. He was a really disrespectful fella, wasn’t he?
“Should you come shut in a preventing man’s area, you’re gonna cop for one thing, aren’t you? Folks don’t perceive we’re the actual deal as fighters.
“What issues to me is respect for my son and he wasn’t displaying any of it. He talked about my son and that was it, so he needed to have it.”
Stepchuk instructed Seconds Out that he did nothing to deserve being butted.
Fury and Usyk will battle for all 4 main titles Saturday at Kingdom Area in Riyadh.