Tyson Fury has vowed to come out of retirement to fight Oleksandr Usyk in an undisputed heavyweight title fight in a now-deleted Instagram post.
Having beaten Anthony Joshua for a second time inside a year to retain his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts, Usyk made clear he only had eyes for WBC champion Fury.
Fury in April announced his retirement, only to weeks later declare an interest in fighting Joshua. Usyk told the crowd on Saturday night: "I'm sure that Tyson Fury is not retired yet.
"I am convinced he wants to fight me. I want to fight him. And if I'm not fighting Tyson Fury, I'm not fighting at all."
Fury described the fight as "one of the worst heavyweight title fights I have ever seen", before adding: "I would annihilate both of them on the same night ... the Gypsy King is here to stay forever."
He then followed up on Instagram, before deleting it, with a call to action to arrange a unification fight with Usyk.
"I've just seen Joshua lose for the second time to Usyk – out of his depth," he wrote. "However, England has been relieved of its belts. Yet again, as usual.
“There is a remedy and a solution that I can suggest. If you want those belts back then send in the Gypsy barbarian of England. Come on!
“Send me in. I will relieve the Ukrainian dosser of his belts like I did the last Ukrainian dosser. But its not gonna be cheap. If you want the best you've got to pay, it's gonna be very expensive.
“So get your f***ing chequebook out and I will relieve that Ukrainian dosser.”
