Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Frank Warren, who along with Top Rank is the co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says there is no way that a trilogy with Deontay Wilder will take place behind closed doors. Fury made a statement when he dropped and stopped Wilder in seven rounds back in February to capture the WBC championship at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
DANIEL DUBOIS has backed promoter Frank Warren’s call for a mouthwatering match-up with Deontay Wilder and boldly predicted he’d “break him down”. Speaking to Danny Flexen from SecondsOut, Dubois admitted he wasn’t privy to Warren’s plan to pair him with the ‘Bronze Bomber’ ahead of time but was sure the fight was “the right step”.
Barry Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, believes a unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury can certainly be next - based on the current situation. Boxing is currently on the shelf for the most part, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to play out.
HALL OF FAME promoter Frank Warren has sensationally claimed he’d be willing to match Heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois against Deontay Wilder “by the end of the year”. Speaking to Queensberry Promotions’ Lockdown Lowdown show, Warren said a potential bout would be contingent on ‘Dynamite’ first overcoming Joe Joyce.
Frank Warren, who along with Top Rank is the promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, agrees with his promotional rival, Eddie Hearn, when it comes to rejecting speculation that negotiations have begun for a fight between Fury and unified champion Anthony Joshua.
The biggest heavyweight fight in boxing – maybe the biggest fight in the sport, period – is certainly a showdown for the undisputed championship between British countrymen Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. Some have speculated that perhaps the fight could take place at the end of the year, but that is unlikely for a variety of reasons.
Eddie Hearn had denied speculation that negotiations have commenced to match his heavyweight Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. However, he does say speculative proposals have been talked about should the roadblocks to that fight, Kubrat Pulev and Deontay Wilder, step aside.
News of the first steps taken towards creating an undisputed heavyweight champion has already generated a buzz to the point of it sounding too good to be true. That’s because it is too good to be true. A major development first reported by ESPN’s Mark Kriegel revealed initial talks taking place between representatives for Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21KOs) and Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21KOs) for a colossal showdown somewhere down the road. The pair of British behemoths own all of the relevant heavyweight hardware between them, with such a fight undoubtedly to go down as the biggest in the history of boxing in the United Kingdom.
With each passing day of the coronavirus pandemic, the trilogy between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder appears less likely that it will take place in 2020. Fury co-promoter Bob Arum originally tabbed July 18 in Las Vegas as the date for the third fight before coronavirus shut down the United States, and The Strip altogether.
Bob Arum has plenty of reasons to have enjoyed how things turned out in the rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder earlier this year. What has the Hall of Fame promoter eagerly anticipating the third fight, however, has less to do with his own fighter’s success but replicating everything that went into the previous event.