Plot twist!
Just about every hurdle had been cleared for Tyson Fury to fight Anthony Joshua for the undisputed heavyweight title, but there’s one that could trip this up before we get to the finish line (aka an official announcement).
Well this is boxing and nothing can ever be that easy.
According to The Athletic’s Mike Coppinger and the Daily Star’s Chris McKenna, arbitration court judge Daniel Weinstein ruled in favor of Deontay Wilder and his team over a contract dispute concerning a trilogy bout between him and Fury. Team Wilder enacted the rematch clause right after Fury’s TKO win last year, but the pandemic shut down plans to book that third fight, and Fury announced in December that he was moving on from the Wilder matchup.