Alex Krassyuk, promoter for WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, has a lot of respect for John Fury, the father of WBC world champion Tyson Fury.

Usyk will collide with Fury in an undisputed fight on February 17 in Saudi Arabia.

John Fury is very vocal when it comes to the sport and often rips apart Tyson’s upcoming opponents.

Krassyuk views him as a smart boxing man who loves to generate headlines with his wild antics.

“He likes entertaining and people in England like people who perform entertainment. He tries to stay in the headlines, tries to be in the videos but he is doing his job. Regarding my relationship I’ve only met him physically only once at the press conference. We shook hands, said hello to each other, introduced ourselves to each other so it was a nice experience and I have nothing bad to say about him. He knows his boxing and he is a good guy,” Krassyuk said to Betway.

A clash between Usyk and Fury has been discussed for some time – but it was finally made when the sports authority in Saudi Arabia came to the negotiating table with a large amount of money.

“Listen, they are making fans dreams come true. Normally we are used to seeing from the networks in the US and UK that one fighter is with one promotional company, and one is from the other so this fight is very difficult to accomplish, to sign a contract and to distribute the profits. The fans really suffer from it,” Krassyuk said.

“But these guys, they are boxing fans, and they know what boxing fans want to see and they are making. Two or three, maybe five years ago we could hardly imagine that suddenly all of the biggest fights are coming in a room and taking place in one night. Who could imagine Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, Joseph Parker, Daniel Dubois, Otto Wallin, Dmitry Bivol, Filip Hrgovic and many more fighting all in one night.”