By positive of Fury the fight against Wilder will be postponed; finding a new date will be difficult
The long-awaited third battle between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder for the World Boxing Council Heavyweight Championship will not be held on July 24 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas due to a problem of COVID-19 in the team of the British champion who forced the organizers of the event, as confirmed by sources to ESPN KNOCKOUT, to find a new date.
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder are going to meet for the third time because the American used a rematch clause to seek revenge after being knocked out in the second battle between the two. In the first, when the Englishman fell twice, he ended dramatically with a draw that allowed Deontay to retain the championship. This morning, Mike Coppinger from ESPN had made known the possibility that the event underwent modifications because it was known that some members of the champion’s team had tested positive for COVID and it was going to be kept under supervision. However, Top Rank did not immediately report any date changes.
Later, it became known, through the journalist Dan Rafael, who was precisely Fury one of those who had tested positive and who even had some symptoms. Sources of ESPN KNOCKOUT confirmed that change was inevitable, but there was no fixed date for now, because next month comes the pay per event of Manny Pacquiao y Errol Spence, and in September he fights Canelo Alvarez in another event that could be pay-per-view on American soil.
The third fight between Fury and Wilder shattered the possibility of Fury unifying championships., as everyone expected, with his countryman Anthony Joshua in August, with the aim that for the first time in many years boxing had only one champion in the highest category of boxing. Everything was moving forward, but Deontay’s resource to fight Fury threw those plans down.
The organizers are expected to give an official report in the next few hours about it.
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