Tyson Fury has insisted he's not concerned about his eye injury potentially reopening when he fights Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.
The Briton was forced to postpone the bout earlier in the year after sustaining a gruesome gash in sparring.
Usyk has insisted Fury deserves an Oscar if he was faking it, though some have mischievously alleged he was cut on purpose because he needed more time to prepare.
Those claims have long been unfounded, however, and Fury and Usyk will meet this weekend as planned with millions from all over the globe set to tune in.
Tyson Fury has revealed he won't let boxing chiefs stop his fight with Oleksandr Usyk if his injury reopens
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Fury, speaking to The Telegraph, has insisted he's not worried about his eye.
And the Gypsy King also revealed he won't let boxing chiefs stop the contest if the cut opens up.
“I’m not concerned about the eye," the 35-year-old told the publication.
“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.”
Fury has long been honest that he's fighting Usyk for the huge money on offer.
Doubling down on that stance, the Briton added: “Look, this is an important fight.
“But again... I hate to say it, because the boxing fans and the boxing purists and all them w*****s don’t want to hear it, but why do you think I box? For the money.
“If anybody in this building, or anybody in professional boxing, tells me they don’t do this game for money, they’re lying to you, and I speak from the heart.
"I do it for the dough. The bigger the deal, the better.
"I’m a prize-fighting pugilist specialist, that’s what I do.
"I fight for the prize, whether it be gold bars, gold coins, cash, transfers, cars – whatever you want to pay me, pay me in bags of sand for all I care.
"As long as I can make a drink on it, deal done."
And Fury couldn't care less about his critics as he prepares to return to the ring.
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“This is a good fight, [but] I’m not too concerned about what people are going to be saying in 100 years," he continued.
"The dust from our bones won’t exist in 100 years, never mind what they say about a boxing match in 100 years.
"We’ll all be dead, my kids will be dead, my wife will be dead, my dad will be dead, anybody I ever cared about will be gone.
“So, I’m going in there to get paid [...] and come back to Morecambe Bay.
"I probably won’t even buy anything, because I don’t need anything. I’ll do a bit of shopping, probably be tighter than I am today.
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will go to war on May 18
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"I’ll do the rematch exactly the same.”
Who ultimately wins remains to be seen.
But the fight, arguably the biggest of the 21st century, certainly has the makings of a classic.
