Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will reportedly go head-to-head in their eagerly anticipated grudge match on April 23.
The Gypsy King’s trans-Atlantic promotional partners Frank Warren and Bob Arum won Friday’s purse bid in Mexico City with a £30 million offer.
The Sun has now reported Warren and Arum have pencilled in April 23 as the date for the clash between the former sparring partners.
It’s said that the official announcement for the date and location is expected next week.
Cardiff’s Principality Stadium is seen as the most likely venue to hold the fight because it has a retractable roof.
Wembley and Fury’s home of Manchester – possibly Old Trafford – are in also in the running to stage his showdown with Whyte.
There had been a number of deadlines to agree the clash between the two heavyweights, with the purse bid instructed for Friday if the final deadline was not met.
The offer from Warren and Arum dwarfed that of Eddie Hearn, who had hoped to snatch the rights with “an offer reflecting the true value of the fight”.
The winning bid also saved Team Fury the total £20.5 million they were prepared to pay Anthony Joshua and Whyte between them to step aside to allow the Gypsy King to fight AJ’s conqueror Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed world heavyweight championship.
Joshua, who could have made a second financial killing by challenging the winner of that fight later this year, will now enact his contractual right to a rematch against Usyk, which is expected to take place in London in May.
Warren – in refuting Hearn’s claim that Fury had backed out of fighting Usyk first and foremost – asserted that negotiations crashed when Joshua “suddenly demanded” an extra £5 million on top of his agreed £15 million to step aside.
That prompted Fury to lambast Joshua and Hearn as “the worst businessmen in the world”.
Whyte also stands to lose out to some extent financially in what is his first shot at a world title, given the WBC have ordered a purse split of 80 to 20 per cent in favour of Fury as champion.
After confirmation of Warren winning the purse bid, Fury said: “Very happy, guys. Purse bids! Big GK (Gypsy King) is coming home.
“Coming home! I’m coming home! I cannot wait. Me and Dillian are gonna put it on the line.
“I’m coming home baby. Get ready for the biggest British dust-up since Lennox Lewis vs Frank Bruno. History in the making.”
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