Tyson Fury seems to have a schedule in place through next year.
The heavyweight champ said on Instagram Live that he will fight Deontay Wilder a third time next and then have two fights with fellow titleholder Anthony Joshua, which should take him into 2022.
The date of the Wilder fight, originally targeted for July 18, remains uncertain because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve got the rematch with Wilder on at some point … then we’ve got the two AJ fights,” Fury said. “Well, one, and then obviously when I batter him, he’ll want a rematch.”
The handlers of Fury and Joshua reportedly have discussed the possibility of paying Wilder and Kubrat Pulev, Joshua’s scheduled opponent, to step aside so Fury and Joshua can go directly into their all-British showdown but neither Wilder nor Pulev is willing to cooperate.
Fury said he wants the third fight with Wilder anyway.
“I’ll beat him in the ring, and that’s how I’ll get him out the way,” Fury said. “I wouldn’t pay him $2 million to step aside. I’d rather give him another battering again. I’m going to take him out again for a third time, hopefully end of the year, and then we’re going to go into 2021 for the biggest fight in boxing history between two undefeated British heavyweights – me and AJ.”
Joshua isn’t undefeated – he was stopped by Andy Ruiz Jr. before winning a rematch last year – but everyone knows the magnitude of a Fury-Joshua matchup or two.
“It would probably be a two-fight deal,” Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports. “Any deal between Fury and AJ, you run it twice.”
And assuming Fury gets past Wilder and two fights with Joshua?
“There’s plenty of fighters out there for me to beat up on,” Fury said. “You got Dillian Whyte, Jarrell Miller, you got Pulev, you got Ruiz, you got [Luis] Ortiz, you got [Daniel] Dubois, you got [Joe] Joyce. There’s loads.”