The trilogy fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is on again. The current plan is for the WBC heavyweight championship fight to take place on October 9th at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena. Promoters scrapped the original July 24th fight date due to a positive Covid diagnosis for Tyson Fury.
“I will be back and better than ever.” Tyson Fury promised after learning of the new fight date. “I will knock him spark out.”
Tyson Fury’s Covid diagnosis is the latest turn in a controversial saga between the two fighters. Fury and Wilder first met in the ring in December of 2018. Fury boxed a clever fight, but Wilder scored two knockdowns. The boxing match was declared a draw, and boxing fans on both sides of the argument screamed robbery.
Fury won the second fight decisively. The Gypsy King scored two knockdowns against Deontay Wilder before Wilder’s corner called an end to the action in the seventh round. Wilder and his fans accused Tyson Fury of cheating to win the second fight.
The contract for the second fight included a rematch clause. But the pandemic made it impossible to schedule a boxing match in front of a live crowd.
Top Rank Boxing and the PBC worked together to stage Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury III in December of 2020. In the end, the companies were unable to put an event together.
Tyson Fury and his camp went into negotiations for a megafight for all the heavyweight championship belts with Anthony Joshua. Fury’s camp concluded the rematch clause with Wilder expired and felt they were free to fight Joshua.
Legal action from Deontay Wilder led to arbitration. The arbitrator ruled Fury owed Wilder a third fight. This series of events led to the July 24th fight date for Wilder-Fury III.
The current complication began with a Covid test taken by Tyson Fury on July 5th. He received notification that he was positive for the virus the next day. Fight fans are hopeful that the long-awaited trilogy fight between the heavyweights will soon take place.