Malik Scott, the head trainer for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, says Oleksandr Usyk - the unified champion - should face his boxer instead of waiting around for Tyson Fury, who currently holds the WBC strap.
Usyk was in the ring back in August, when he outboxed Anthony Joshua to retain the WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO titles.
Fury is back on December 3, when he faces Derek Chisora in a trilogy fight.
Usyk would like to fight Fury in an undisputed showdown in the first quarter of 2023. He even gave Fury a deadline of March 4 to stage the fight.
However, Scott believes Fury is too erratic to wait for, because nobody knows what the 'Gypsy King' could do next. Fury has retired and unretired several times since April.
Wilder recently broke his year-long layoff. He returned to the ring for the first time since dropping a knockout loss to Fury in their fantastic trilogy fight, which occured in October of 2021. And Wilder made a comeback statement with a first round blowout of Robert Helenius.
Scott feels the big puncher is back to his dangerous self.
“I think he should hold off on Fury and wait for us, just fight us. One, because there’s no telling what Fury’s going to do. There’s no telling," Scott told ES News.
“Plus I’m just greedy, I like the position that my guy, Deontay, is in right now – mentally, physically, spiritually. He’s just in a very dangerous space right now, and I want Usyk to fight the most dangerous fighter in the world. Like I said, don’t nobody respect Usyk on US soil the way that I do – but I also know who I’m training is the most lethal fighter in the history of the sport.”