Boxing

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder set to clash again in new year

16 December 2018 - 00:00 By The Daily Telegraph and BBC

Tyson Fury will meet Deontay Wilder again "sometime in 2019" and promoter Frank Warren has insisted Anthony Joshua "will have nowhere to hide" if the self-proclaimed "Gypsy King" wins the title.
After the World Boxing Council's committee voted late this week to order an immediate rematch following the controversial drawn heavyweight world-title clash in Los Angeles, Warren said he expects it to be signed "sometime in January".
"We will start talks next week," Warren said. "Tyson Fury has been in camp for virtually a year so we need to give him a break for Christmas. We are pushing hard to have the rematch in the UK. We will look to do the fight sometime in the late spring of 2019 and are looking at a stadium in the UK.
"If we can't get it here, it may well go to Las Vegas. But we believe Fury is now in the driving seat. He is the No 1 heavyweight in the world. I said whoever won the fight would be the No 1 and, in my eyes and those of numerous astute judges, we believe Fury did win the fight."
Warren believes Fury would have the upper hand against Joshua with his boxing skills. "That's a huge fight as well. Tyson will be coming for Joshua, and he will have nowhere to hide."
Rival promoter Eddie Hearn, meanwhile, believes Wilder-Fury showed his fighter, Joshua, should be the favourite against the other two unbeaten heavyweights. "I still think 'AJ' beats him [Fury] every day of the week, and I believe he demolishes Deontay Wilder," said Hearn.
Meanwhile, Joshua says he wants to fight WBC heavyweight champion Wilder in April and has told the American: "I'm running the game."
Joshua holds the International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Organisation and World Boxing Association belts and any bout between the two would unify the heavyweight division.
"I'm not interested in Tyson Fury - he's not the champion," Joshua said.
The 29-year-old is yet to confirm an opponent for his next fight on April 13 at Wembley Stadium...

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