Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder 3 Targeted For July 24 As Bob Arum Won’t Pay Wilder Step Aside Money

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder are now penciled in to have their trilogy on July 24 in Las Vegas.

Fury and Anthony Joshua had agreed to fight on August 14 in Saudi Arabia, however, an arbitrator ruled Wilder is owed a third fight, but many expected both promoters to pay him step aside money. Yet, according to Fury’s U.S. promoter in Bob Arum, they will not be paying Wilder, and instead, will just fight him in July.

“We’re not paying Wilder to step aside,” Arum told ESPN on Monday. “It’s better to get rid of him and go about our business. We can make the Fury-Joshua fight for November or December.”

However, Frank Warren, who is Fury’s UK’s promoter, he told TalkSport that they want to pay off Wilder in order to secure the Joshua fight.

“We are hoping that we can come to some accommodation [with Wilder]. We have started talks, and hopefully an accommodation will be met with Wilder’s side that will enable Tyson and AJ to get it on. If not, then Tyson will have to fight Wilder. That is the bottom line.

“There has to be some consideration and if we can get to some form of solution and he agrees to it, the benefit to Wilder is if Tyson wins the fight against AJ, then instead of fighting for just the WBC belt he’ll be fighting for four belts,” Warren added. “It’s a problem and we have to deal with it. If Tyson has to fight Wilder, then that fight [against Joshua] will get delayed. We want it to go on straight away. That’s the fight everybody wants to see; we want to see two big British guys in the ring, facing each other. That is what we are working hard, and have been working hard, to make happen.”

What happens from here is still not certain, however, there is no question the path to Fury vs. Joshua got a lot more difficult after Monday.

Do you think we will see Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua on August 14?