Tyson Fury, injured in an eye in training, was forced to postpone his fight against Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk with a view to unifying the world belts in the premier heavyweight category, the promoters of this duel announced on Friday .
The fight was scheduled for February 17 in Riyadh. Fury holds the WBC world title while Usyk holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts. The last heavyweight to have unified the world titles of the competing federations which govern boxing was the British Lennox Lewis, in 2000.
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