Wilder-Fury 3 May Be Pushed Back Due To Covid Outbreak In Fury Camp

By: Sean Crose

ESPN is reporting that the upcoming Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua WBC heavyweight title match, which is about to go down just some weeks from now, might be postponed. It’s being cited {that a} Covid outbreak within the Fury camp is the rationale for the potential scheduling change. The Athletics’ Lance Pugmire quotes Fury co-promoter Bob Arum as saying he hasn’t been instructed if Fury himself has the virus. “We proceed to observe the well being standing of Tyson and his group and the standing of the occasion has not modified thus far,” Pugmire quotes Arum as saying.

That is yet one more unusual flip in what has been a really unusual sequence of occasions now going all the best way again to 2018. That’s when Fury was dropped by a thunderous Wilder proper hand within the closing spherical of their first bout. Fury, who had clearly been profitable the combat as much as that time, seemed to be down and out. But the person obtained up and fought on, main the match to be declared a draw by the judges. Simply over a yr later, within the rematch, Fury – now beneath the tutelage of Sugar Hill Steward – fought in a surprisingly aggressive model and stopped his man within the seventh.

And now this.

Once more, the combat has but to be formally postponed. Whether it is, nonetheless, then September is being seen because the month when the bout will happen. There’s a clearly lot of consideration on this match, a lot of it having to do with the unhealthy blood concerned (no less than on the a part of Wilder). As issues stand, there are presently 4 main contenders for the title of heavyweight king: Fury, Wilder, Joshua, and (extra lately) Oleksandr Usyk, who seems to be preventing Wilder in September now that Fury is out as an instantaneous opponent.