Originally posted by vitali1999
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The only mandatory due is against Povetkin. The WBC and IBF are still putting together their eliminators.
Unification trumps mandatory, and there's an almost certain reality that the organizations will endorse a possible rematch.
Any "issue" that could arise after that would fall solely on not sticking to the rotation. With the titles unified, the champion has to fight Povetkin, the Charr-Oquendo winner, the WBC mandatory, the IBF mandatory, and then a voluntary, before fighting the WBA mandatory, and starting the rotation again with the WBO mandatory.
Without there being some gargantuan money fight to incentivize away from simply following the mandatory schedule (a Fury fight isn't earnestly worth all that much more than the Povetkin fight or a Whyte/Pulev fight or whomever emerges as the WBC mandatory, and Fury can basically be given the WBO's mandatory anyway).
All Wilder wanted was fair money. Eddie Hearn made the initial offer and said that the fight was only worth so much money, Wilder's camp made it clear that they believed the fight was worth a lot more (to Joshua and to Wilder), and now it's on Eddie Hearn to make the fight worth traveling over for Wilder (and get Joshua to see that the money he is giving up is what got him home advantage on the fight).
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