Fury v Usyk capable of the gravitas of an era when boxing held sport's greatest prize | Donald McRae

This fascinating clash of character and style will provide the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the 21st century In 1971, when the heavyweight championship ofthe world could still be described accurately as one of the greatest prizes in sport, Norman Mailer wrote about MuhammadAli and Joe Frazier with a kind of drunken fervour. He suggested that "the closer a heavyweight comes to the championship, the more natural it is for him to be a little more insane, secretly insane, for the heavywe...