Tyson Fury's World heavyweight championship rematch with Wladimir Klitschko has been cancelled for a second time, with the heavyweight champion being declared medically unfit to fight.
The pair had been due to meet in Manchester on October 29th.
A statement from Fury’s promoters Hennessy Sports read:
It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce that the World Heavyweight Championship rematch between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko, scheduled to take place on the 29th October 2016 at the Manchester Arena, will not be going ahead.
Tyson has, this week, been declared medically unfit to fight. Medical specialists have advised that the condition is too severe to allow him to participate in the rematch and that he will require treatment before going back into the ring. Tyson will now immediately undergo the treatment he needs to make a full recovery.
We and Tyson wish to express our sincerest apologies to all those concerned with the event and all the boxing fans who had been looking forward to the rematch. Tyson is understandably devastated by the development.
It has been suggested that the medical issue in question is a back injury, though that is not mentioned in the statement.
The last attempt at a rematch was abandoned when Fury's camp reported that the heavyweight champion had injured his ankle. It later emerged that UK-Anti Doping had charged the massive Manc over a urine sample taken in February 2015 - nine months prior to his defeat of Klitschko.
It was alleged the sample contained traces of the banned substance nandrolone, and Fury was provisionally suspended, but that ban has since been lifted, and his legal team plan to sue UKAD over the allegations. That hearing will be held in November.
Fury failed to show up to a presser with Klitschko last week, citing car problems. Klitschko is yet to comment on these latest developments.
