Promoter Eddie Hearn, who represents WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is expecting a very difficult negotiations when he actually sits down at the table with former unified champion Tyson Fury.
Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) has been out of the ring since capturing the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO titles with an upset twelve round unanimous decision over Wladimir Klitschko back in November of 2015 in Germany.
He eventually was forced to drop all of his titles and lost his boxing license due to substance abuse issues.
Last week, Fury settled an outstanding investigation by UK Anti Doping (UKAD), who claim the boxer tested positive for a banned substance in early 2015.
Fury accepted a backdated two-year ban and now he's in training for a comeback in the first quarter of 2018.
The first order of business, is for Fury to reclaim his license to box next month, the British Boxing Board of Control meet on the matter.
"I expect the Board will give him back his licence in January or February. He's talking about fighting again in April but it will be realistically May because he has got a good six or seven stones to lose which is a lot of weight, but he's training at the moment which is a good sign," Hearn told Nick Parkinson.
The big issue will be the actual negotiations to set the financial split of the revenue between Fury and Joshua.
According to Hearn, Fury is not going to take a backseat to Joshua when it comes to the overall revenue percentage.
"There are only two reasons it doesn't happen. The first is that Tyson Fury has lost all sense of reality for a deal for that fight with AJ. He wants a lot more than a 50-50 split, which is a joke. Second reason is that he can't get himself into a physical condition which is good enough to fight AJ," Hearn said.
"I've talked to Tyson Fury numerous times about it and I don't know if he was having a laugh when he was saying it's a 50-50 split or not, but we're not in a position to talk about that fight anyway for a while."