The ‘Gypsy King’ is currently without an opponent after undisputed fight talks with Oleksandr Usyk collapsed, as the pair disagreed following public demands from the WBC champion.
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Fury set Joshua’s camp the ultimatum on Friday night, insisting if the deal cannot be done he will walk away and find another opponent for his next WBC title defence.
Before and after his all-British showdown with Dillian Whyte last month, champion Tyson Fury stated that he would be retiring from boxing, regardless of the result.
The win for the self-styled ‘Gypsy King’, fighting on UK soil for the first time in four years, was witnessed by 94,000 fans.
The Gypsy King is set to defend his WBC heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, which will be the first time he’s fought in England for four years.
Britain’s Fury weathered the early storm and knocked Wilder down in the third round with a short uppercut but the American responded in the fourth, knocking Fury down twice with shots to the head.
Usyk has made the difficult decision to leave his combat unit in the fight against Russia, to prepare for his heavyweight rematch with Anthony Joshua this summer.
The battle of the Brits is yet to be rubber stamped and remains in danger.
Fury took to his Instagram after a gym session to update his fans on his next step after last fighting in October.
Earlier this month Whyte was officially made mandatory challenger for Fury’ s WBC heavyweight championship.
The ‘Bodysnatcher’ was supposed to fight the Swede on October 30 at the 02 Arena with Whyte’s WBC ‘interim’ belt on the line.
Wilder slumped to the canvas for the third and final time in the 11th round of Saturday’s WBC Heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas, failing to get back up and was taken to hospital after.
The heavyweights will meet again in a trilogy bout on July 24, live on talkSPORT, and the situation with the next mandatory challenger will not be addressed until after the fight has happened.
The CP received ASP Olanrewaju Durodola, who returned to Nigeria on Sunday 30th May, 2021 from the World Boxing Council (WBC) championship held in Tanzania.
The WBC heavyweight champion has grown frustrated by the lack of progress in getting the Joshua battle over the line.
Both fighters had impressive moments during a fight that was unofficially ruled a draw by the WBC judges at ringside.
As Fury and Joshua continue to talk up a potential meeting in 2021 and a follow-up immediately after, Sulaiman moved to reassure mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte.
The British fighter is the mandatory challenger to Tyson Fury’s WBC title and has officially held that position since last July.
WBC chief Mauricio Sulaiman has backed Tyson Fury following new allegations which claim that the Gypsy King attempted to dodge a drug ban.
The World Boxing Council has released the drug test results for Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder after the pair’s bout last month.