Oleksandr Usyk in talks to fight Filip Hrgovic after Tyson Fury withdrawal

Oleksandr Usyk is the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion

Oleksandr Usyk is in talks to fight Filip Hrgovic after Tyson Fury withdrew from their planned bout with injury.

Fury and Usyk were due to meet for the undisputed heavyweight championship in Saudi Arabia on 17 February, before the Briton sustained a cut in sparring.

Usyk holds the WBA, IBF and WBO titles and his promoter Alex Krassyuk says there is a "slight chance" he could face Hrgovic on the same date.

The unbeaten Croatian is the mandatory challenger to Usyk's IBF belt.

"We are trying to figure out the fight with Hrgovic - if it works, it works," Krassyuk said on an Instagram live on Saturday. "If it doesn't, then it doesn't."

Fury, 35, is expected to need several months to heal from the cut and Saudi Arabian organisers said on Friday the entire 17 February event in Riyadh was being postponed.

The injury above Fury's right eye needed "urgent medical attention" and "significant stitching".

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Hrgovic, 31, is the next mandatory challenger in line to face Usyk after Briton Daniel Dubois was given his shot against the Ukrainian by the WBA last August.

Usyk has been training in Spain and is yet to wrap up the camp as his team searches for a new opponent.

Team Usyk are furious with the late withdrawal of Fury, with his manager Egis Klimas telling BBC Sport on Friday the Briton "will do anything" not to face the 2012 Olympic champion.

It is the third time a potential fight between 37-year-old Usyk and Fury has collapsed.

The most recent date, 23 December, was moved to 17 February when Fury suffered a heavy knockdown in his points win over MMA fighter Francis Ngannou in October.

"If we speak about undisputed, it's still a question of whether it's going to happen at all," Krassyuk said.

"We've been waiting for Fury for more than two years. How long should we wait for him?

"The whole world wants to see undisputed. What should we do? We have to go away."

Saudi Arabia has become a global hub for boxing but has provoked scrutiny due to the country's poor human rights record - 81 men were executed on one day in 2022 - women's rights abuses, the criminalisation of homosexuality, the restriction of free speech and the war in Yemen.