BREAKING NEWS SPECIAL EDITION: Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Turki Alalshikh announce new date, more

The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani

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4.6 • 878 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On the special breaking news edition of The MMA Hour, heavyweight boxing champs Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk appeared with Saudi Arabia royal adviser Turki Alalshikh and Usyk manager/translator Eglis Klimas, to talk about the delay of the Feb. 17 title unifier in Riyadh. Fury spoke about how his injury took place, Usyk and Klimas gave their reaction to Fury's cut, Alalshikh announced the new date for the fight and the incentive he's put out to both fighters to keep the fight from being delayed again. Additionally, Alalshikh talks about what will happen to the Feb. 17 event, the plan for Filip Hrgovic's next fight, the date for the highly anticipated light heavyweight title unifier between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the mixed martial arts hour with The 2024, yes, a special breaking news edition of the program.
0:26.5	We don't usually do this on a Saturday afternoon, but this episode warrants it.
0:31.2	So yesterday afternoon, we found out that the highly anticipated
0:34.3	heavyweight unification bout between Tyson Fury and Alexander Usix scheduled for
0:40.1	February 17th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
0:43.8	unfortunately postponed due to a cut suffered in training
0:47.2	on the top of the right eye of one Tyson Fury.
0:51.8	Obviously massive news, a lot of questions regarding what happens now and where all
0:56.8	the particulars go from here and so without further ado let us say hello to the particulars.
1:02.1	Let's go to Saudi Arabia and Spain.
1:04.5	First we say hello to Tyson Fury, the gypsy King, being joined by Mr.
1:09.2	Turkey al-Shirchirch. There they are. Thank you so much guys for joining us and we also say hello over in Spain to Mr. Alexander
1:17.4	Usick, the WBA, I B. F, and W B. O. Champion. He's also joined by his manager, I guess Klimas, thank you so much to the both of you for joining us.
1:27.8	So Tyson, could we start with you?
1:30.8	We have here also Spencer.
1:33.0	How you doing?
1:35.0	Hello Spencer.
1:36.0	How we doing?
1:38.0	Hey there he is.
1:39.0	Spencer, nice of you to join us.
1:41.0	Appreciate it very much. Obviously let's try to go in
1:44.6	chronological order if we can. Tyson I'll start with you. Could you tell us when you
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