Tyson Fury makes £500m boxing admission ahead of his undisputed Oleksandr Uysk bout

Tyson Fury has admitted that he would like to become the first £500m heavyweight boxer ahead of his clash with Oleksandr Usyk this weekend.

The Gypsy King takes on the Ukrainian on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in the first undisputed heavyweight champion title fight since Lennox Lewis defeat Evander Holyfield back in 1999. The 35-year-old comes into the bout having scraped past Francis Ngannou in October.

For Usyk, 37, he comes into the encounter having not fought since last August when he defeated Daniel Dubois via knockout. The contest, which is being dubbed 'The Ring of Fire', was meant to take place in February but had to be rescheduled due to the Brit sustaining an eye injury in training.

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“I’m not concerned about the eye,” Fury explained about his injury. “If it gets cut, the viewing figures will go up, there will be blood everywhere and I won’t let them stop the fight.

“I’m looking to do a demolition job on him. I just want to beat the silly sausage. Yes, Usyk is fast, talented, he out-boxed a big heavyweight in Anthony Joshua twice but AJ is one-dimensional, one-paced, and I could outbox him with a blindfold on. I’m just different.”

It has been billed as the biggest fight of both fighter's boxing career meaning, heavy pay cheques are on the line. Reports from the Independent have suggested that Fury is contracted to earn around 70 per cent of a total purse, thought to be around $150m (£116m).

There is a clause included in the contract stating that Fury must donate £1m of his earnings to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with