Fury spars with strongman

Hughie Fury spars with the world's strongest man, Eddie Hall, ahead of his world title fight with Joseph Parker.

Hughie Fury has taken his world heavyweight title fight preparations to freak proportions, sparring with the "world's strongest man" Eddie Hall.

Fury takes on WBO champion Joseph Parker in Manchester on September 24.

As his sparring enters its final phase, the 22-year-old Fury was briefly joined in the ring at his training camp by fellow Brit Hall.

Hall, 29, was crowned the world's strongest man at the official championship in Botswana in May. He is a six-time UK strongest man winner and is the only man to deadlift 500kg under strongman rules.

The musclebound Hall didn't have too much finesse with the gloves on. But he did put on a game show for a minute or so as he aggressively stalked the elusive Fury. But Fury's left jab eventually forced Hall to call it quits.

The latest stunt comes on top of Fury going "old school" with his training camp in Lake Windermere that has seen him climbing rock faces, chopping wood, and towing tyres around the English countryside.

But it appears promotional problems continue to plague the Parker-Fury fight.

British promoters Hennessy Sports were expected to finally announce the host broadcaster for the fight on Monday night (NZ time) but failed to deliver.

They apologised and said they planned to make the announcement "as soon as possible".

It's a worrying sign just over two weeks out from fight night for an event that has been struggling to sell tickets to the 21,000 seater Manchester Arena.

Parker wraps up his training camp in Las Vegas at the end of this week to transfer to London to round off his preparations.