Tyson Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren has hit out at suggestions that the WBC champion and his camp never intended to honour their desire to make a fight with Anthony Joshua.
A deal was all but officially confirmed for August in Saudi Arabia to decide who would emerge as the undisputed heavyweight champion, but a shock announcement saw Deontay Wilder win his arbitration case against Fury.
The Bronze Bomber earned a trilogy rematch for July, postponing any Joshua-Fury fight indefinitely, and Matchroom head Eddie Hearn believes in retrospect that Fury’s camp always anticipated walking away from the deal.
However, speaking to Seconds Out, Queensberry Promotions head Warren dismissed those allegations.
“All this rubbish that’s going down that we didn’t really want it, what planet are people on to come out with stuff like that?”
Warren made it clear that the financial incentives on offer from Saudi Arabia dwarfs anything that Fury might make from facing Wilder for a third time.
“Tyson gets four times the purse he would get, more than four times, for fighting Anthony Joshua and it would be the same for Joshua fighting [Oleksandr] Usyk. Financially it’s in their interest, financially for us, the managers, the TV companies, it’s the same.
“It’s just stupid, it’s just a mess, but it is where it is.”