It looks like adding Tyson Fury to the Clash at the Castle stadium show in Wales this September is still something WWE would like to do.
Louis Dangoor of GiveMeSport reports that the heavyweight boxing champion is “in talks with WWE regarding a potential return this summer.” While Dangoor’s sources aren’t sure if it would be for just an appearance or an actual match, they did say it would “tie in with Clash at the Castle,” which is set for the Principality Stadium in Wales on Sept. 3.
Fury himself had hinted at the possibility that he’d be at the show as far back as his victory over Dillian Whyte in April. He talked up Drew McIntyre as someone he’d like to knock out and spoke favorably about his lone WWE appearance to date, which took place in Saudi Arabia in 2019.
When summer arrived and there was no word of any negotiations between Fury’s camp and WWE, the thought was that perhaps both sides had moved on from the idea. But this new report suggests that having the popular British heavyweight on the show could still be in the cards.
A match between Fury and McIntyre would be an undeniable draw in Wales, though reviews of Fury’s first in-ring performance were mixed at best, and as Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp noted, recent talents from other areas of sports and entertainment to try their hand at WWE work have raised expectations with their efforts.
The bar awfully high for celebrities in wrestling now. Bad Bunny, Logan Paul, Pat McAfee, Shaq, Johnny Knoxville the last couple of years, and even Stephen Amell and D'Angelo Williams before that. Tyson Fury has name value but he stunk up the joint last go around
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) July 5, 2022
That said, Fury is also a skilled and compelling talker, so even trotting him out with a live microphone to trade verbal jabs with some WWE personalities and land a scripted haymaker or two could make for fun interactions. WWE will want to ensure that Clash in the Castle, its first U.K. stadium show in decades, is the biggest success possible, and including Fury in some way surely can’t hurt.