By Edward Chaykovsky
Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0) would be willing to accept an offer to face WBC champion Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33KOs), if he was able to have at least seven to eight weeks of training.
Hughie was apparently offered a crack at Wilder's title on September 26th in the United States, according to his father and trainer Peter Fury. The next high profile return for Hughie is likely going to happen on the October 24th card at Germany when his cousin Tyson Fury challenges Wladimir Klitschko for the WBO/WBA/IBF/IBO heavyweight belts.
Peter says a four week camp is not enough time to put together a proper training camp, with the ability for proper sparring or even the ability to put the proper sparring partners together.
"It’s come from one of our people in America that it’s come to us if we’d be interested in it. With the time to prepare, he’d take it. I got in the message [that it would be in] about four weeks. I said that’s not long enough. If we got that much time we’d be interested. Mainly to sort out sparring partners and stuff like that. He needs a proper camp for the opportunity. We’re not going to rush into anything. If we had the right preparations of course we would take it," Peter told Boxing News.
“He’d only be taking this fight because the opportunity’s come for a world title fight. He’s got a chance like anybody else but ideally he’s probably a few years away. He’s back boxing regular, he’s fighting tough men as well. [His last opponent, George] Arias was very difficult because he was on him with a very good defence, so it was hard to penetrate. We knew that he was durable, we knew that he would get 10 rounds out of him. It went very well.
“We will look to step him up again [on October 24]. We’re just looking at names but it definitely has to be a top ranked opponent, definitely somebody in the top 10 in the world.”
That said, Peter Fury told scribe Nick Parkinson that if Wilder's return date is actually September 26th, that might be enough time to do the fight.
"We would take the fight no problem at all if it was late September, that's enough time to prepare. Anything can happen when you put a pair of gloves on and get in that ring."