WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has no interest in paying Deontay Wilder a step-aside fee.
Over the last few months, there has been a lot of chatter regarding a scenario where Fury pays Wilder a step-aside fee in order to go directly to a full division unification with WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion Anthony Joshua.
Fury stopped Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC title back in February.
After suffering the loss, Wilder exercised his contractual option to an immediate rematch, which initially was scheduled for July 18 - and now pushed back to the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Fury would much rather go through with the Wilder clash, because he has no interest in giving him free money.
"I think we’ve got the rematch with Wilder on as well at some point. Then we’ve got two AJ fights, well one and then obviously when I batter him he’ll want a rematch. Wilder’s got a rematch clause. Some newspaper reported that he wanted $10 million to step aside. But I’m not paying him no money to step aside, I’d rather take his scalp again. I’ll beat him in the ring, that’s how I’ll get him out of the way," Fury stated during an Instagram Live interview.
"I wouldn’t pay him $2 million to step aside – I’d rather give him another battering again. I’m going to take him out again for the third time, hopefully at the end of the year, and then we’re going to go into 2021 with the biggest fight in boxing history between two undefeated British heavyweights, me and AJ, and we’re going to battle it out for all the gold.
"There used to be a three-headed monster in this division – me, Wilder and Joshua – and then Ruiz knocked out Joshua, burst that bubble, broke him in, and then I broke in the Bronze Bomber. Three became two and then two became one, and now I’m a standalone soldier. And they all need to come through me now and it’s not an easy task because I guard the gate."