Tyson Fury: record, next fight and profile →
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.
Former heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder is eliminating every person that he views as a "snake" from his camp. Wilder suffered the first defeat of his pro career back in February, when he went down twice and was stopped in the seventh round by Tyson Fury at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has denied some of the rumors that his team offered a step-aside deal to Deontay Wilder. Fury is contracted to face Wilder in a trilogy fight, which is expected to happen by the end of the year.
Frank Warren hopes the third Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder fight actually occurs October 3, as planned. But based on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted government guidelines for large gatherings and economies worldwide, Warren wouldn’t be surprised if their third heavyweight championship match doesn’t take place until sometime in 2021. England’s Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) is contractually obligated to give Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) a chance to win back his WBC title, but that’s about all Fury’s co-promoter can say with any certainty until the coronavirus crisis is over.
Deontay Wilder doesn’t know why Tyson Fury or anyone else would be surprised he wants to fight Fury a third time. Fury told talkSport last week that he didn’t think Wilder would take the third fight he was contractually owed because their rematch was so one-sided. The unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion claims Wilder only agreed to box him again because Wilder will earn so much money to do it.
Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte sees no reason for Deontay Wilder to get another crack at Tyson Fury. The two heavyweights first collided back in December 2018, which saw Fury go down twice and the fight concluded in a controversial twelve round split draw.
Dillian Whyte wants Tyson Fury to make his first WBC heavyweight title defense against him if Deontay Wilder’s recovery from biceps surgery further delays their third fight. England’s Fury is tentatively scheduled to battle Wilder on October 3 at an undetermined venue. Wilder recently revealed that he had surgery to repair a torn left biceps, an injury he suffered during his seventh-round, technical-knockout defeat to Fury on February 22 in Las Vegas.