WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) was hoping to fight WBO, IBF, and WBA king Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs) this fall, but talks fell through and it won’t happen until 2019 at the earliest. That’s boxing for you.
Anyway, Wilder still doesn’t have a fight lined up for the rest of 2018, but that could soon change. Ring Magazine confirmed that Wilder’s team are in negotiations with former unified heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (26-0, 19 KOs) for a major matchup this December. According to Ring’s sources, if the fight does happen, then it’d be in Las Vegas and be broadcast on Showtime PPV, which would be Wilder’s pay-per-view headlining debut.