WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder is training for his scheduled rematch with Luis Ortiz, which is scheduled for November 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Wilder, should he win, would look to a February rematch with Tyson Fury.
Fury and Wilder fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018.
But before that happens on the other end, Fury will make his pro wrestling debut when he faces WWE superstar Braun Strowman on October 31 in Saudi Arabia.
Fury has filmed several televised angles with Strowman to build up their match.
Wilder does not want Fury to use an injury, as a result of his WWE match, to postpone the rematch date.
“I’m not surprised he got into WWE. We'd been saying this a long time ago that he’s gonna try it, he’s been making excuses about the rematch. Now he’s got into the WWE, he’s gonna get ‘injured’ make up excuses and lo and behold we already hearing about he sprained his ankle," Wilder told Sun Sport.
“But yeah he’s messing around with those big guys, but I do not want to hear no excuses, none, no excuses. I wish everyone well, especially fighters."
And Wilder does not believe the talk of Fury getting a massive payday to take part in the WWE bout.
"We work so hard and put our lives on the line so whatever outside of boxing come to us I’m happy for everyone. I’m into acting, my thing is acting. I’ve been doing my thing, super busy, I got a lot of acting stuff, movies, a lot of s*** presented to me. But I’ve been hearing some bits about the WWE. You know, some of the stuff I just don’t believe - like the $15 million," Wilder said.
“Why would they give that to a guy that can’t even sell out Vegas? In his first fight he sold 1,500, and the second he sold 3,500 tickets the rest he gave away, why would they give someone $15 million after that? I just can’t see them giving Fury $15 million for what is a guest appearance, when the highest paid I believe is Brock Lesnar on $12 million.
“Why would they give that to a guy that can’t even sell out Vegas? In his first fight he sold 1,500 tickets, and the second he sold 3,500 tickets the rest he gave away, why would they give someone $15 million after that? It’s just like the ESPN deal, that was a lie. He was never getting $100 million, even his promoter Bob Arum came out and said that’s not true, if everything goes perfect then maybe he get a $100 million. A lot of it is smoking mirrors and clout chasing.”