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Frank Warren Video Interview - Tyson Fury has agreed a lucrative multi-fight deal to be co-promoted by Bob Arum's Top Rank Boxing. The former IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO champion and his promoter Frank Warren announced the deal, said to be worth £80 million, on Monday.
The big news that Tyson Fury just signed co-promotional agreement with Top Rank was received by the authorities of the World Boxing Council. And to avoid further assumptions, the sanctioning body has asked the teams of British challenger and WBC heavyweight champion, Deontay Wilder, to report the status of the negotiations for their promotions.
WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has backed the recent statements by Tyson Fury, who claims that he dropped Jarrell Miller seven times during a sparring session in 2011. Fury claims he gave Miller a one-sided gym beating that forced the sparring session to get called off and Miller was sent home.
The WBC twice has postponed the purse bid for the immediate rematch it ordered between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury. The second postponement was indefinite, according to WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman, because representatives for Fury and Wilder were in the process of negotiating. As it turns out, Wilder adviser Al Haymon and co-manager Shelly Finkel weren’t the only ones with whom Frank Warren was negotiating last week.
Even with the surprise plot twist regarding his most recent and still next intended opponent, Deontay Wilder insists that nothing will interrupt his plans for a springtime ring return. The long-reigning unbeaten heavyweight titlist has been in months-long talks for a rematch with Tyson Fury, with whom he fought to a 12-round draw in their Showtime Pay-Per-View headliner last December. The commercial success of the thrilling clash of undefeated heavyweights—drawing a crowd of more than 17,000 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and selling over 300,000 PPV units—coupled with the inconclusive ending immediately prompted talks of the two running it back.
Deontay Wilder is so determined to finalize plans for a rematch with Tyson Fury, that he won’t allow any development to serve as a roadblock. Even if it means fighting outside of a platform he’s proudly represented since its inception. From the moment their memorable 12-round heavyweight title fight at Los Angeles’ famed Staples Center ended in a stalemate last December, the two sides immediately began discussing plans for a desired rematch. Insider indications suggested talks were far enough along to where an official announcement was forthcoming.
Bob Arum is more than open to Tyson Fury fighting Deontay Wilder next. The Hall-of-Fame promoter just needs to know how willing those that work with Deontay Wilder will be to work with his company and ESPN to make that immediate rematch happen. Now that Arum’s Top Rank Inc. has signed England’s Fury to a multi-fight agreement for the lineal heavyweight champion to box on ESPN in the United States, he’ll help co-promoter Frank Warren decide Fury’s next move.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, British heavyweight Tyson Fury has signed a broadcast deal under which his fights will be shown exclusively on ESPN platforms in the United States. No financial details were disclosed, but British newspaper the Daily Mail reported on Monday that the deal was worth 80 million pounds ($103 million), while the BBC reported that it covered Fury's next five fights.
Tyson Fury has agreed a lucrative multi-fight deal to be co-promoted by Bob Arum's Top Rank Boxing. The former IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO champion and his promoter Frank Warren announced the deal, said to be worth £80 million, on Monday.
Photos gallery - Tyson Fury today joined hall of fame promoter Frank Warren at a press conference at BT Sport Studios, London to confirm his new stateside multi-fight agreement with ESPN.