Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury rematch may happen next, says Bob Arum


Bob Arum will explore the option to move Tyson Furys rematch with Deontay Wilder up to the end of the year, rather than early 2020.
Fury and Wilder have agreed terms for their much-anticipated second clash and were expected to go to war again between February and March.
But after Furys destruction of Tom Schwarz in Las Vegas last week, Arum thinks it might be wise to have the rematch straight away.
I think we have to really look at the situation, and itll be up to ESPN and Fox, maybe we go right to the fight now, Arum told Helen Lee.

I felt I needed two fights with Tyson Fury in order to really have the public take a look at him and realise what a phenomenal athlete and entertainer he is, but because ESPN did such a magnificent job in helping us promote the Schwarz fight, maybe we can go right now into a Wilder fight.
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But that would depend on how the other side feel about it, how Fox and PBC feel about it.
But I feel maybe we should be talking about stop fooling around with interim fights, where we saw with the Joshua-Ruiz fight, anything can happen.

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