Shawn Porter claims that Tyson Fury’s aborted trilogy rematch with Deontay Wilder has thrown his own planned fight into chaos.
Porter was due to announce his next fight but told the DAZN Boxing Show that he had to go back to the drawing board.
The former welterweight champion explained how he was forced to change his plans.
“You know, it's crazy. Uh, I'm on the plane, heading home,” he recounted.
“I’m about to do this because normally, there's a protocol: Fox announces it then PBC announces it. And then I get to.
“I land and then I get a couple of messages like: ‘Say nothing. Say nothing yet.’
“It's unfortunate that I can't announce a fight. I was about to announce something before everything went down with Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder 3. Because of that, it’s a mess."
Porter then claimed that because the third fight between the heavyweights will now have to be rearranged, the title fight’s boxing schedule is hampering his own.
“Now they have to figure out where they're going to put that fight in place,” he said.
“You got to figure these guys were close to peak week. If not, if not very relatively close.
“They're not going to put it on next year. It's already a big fight for August right here. It's a big fight in the works for September. Nothing right now that I believe is in October, so I got to figure they may be doing something in October.
“But anybody who has not announced the date yet for PBC and Fox, rest assured we were all getting ready to announce.”