Warren: Why Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will have to fight each other

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ITโ€™S easy to despair of heavyweight boxing right now. Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury arenโ€™t fighting each other. After Oleksandr Usyk suffered an injury, weโ€™ll have to wait even for his heavyweight debut.

But hope springs eternal and Frank Warren, who co-promotes Fury with Top Rank, is optimistic. When it comes to Fury, Joshua and Wilder, Warren maintains those fights will happen. โ€œTheyโ€™re not going to happen this year obviously but theyโ€™ll have to happen. Theyโ€™ll have to happen. The public will not stand for it. Theyโ€™ll all reach a level and at that level if they want to take their careers on and their earning capacities on, theyโ€™ll have to challenge each other,โ€ the promoter explained.

He sees Fury having two or three fights in the USA before returning to Britain for a contest. โ€œESPN have put a lot of resources behind him financially and their network behind him to build his profile in the States. His profile, if he does what heโ€™s supposed to do heโ€™ll have a bigger profile than all of them. That will increase his value and theyโ€™re looking to build their pay per view platform out there, which they will do. Itโ€™s to the benefit of him and all the other boxers regarding pay-per-view fights. Itโ€™s yet another big market,โ€ Warren said. โ€œ[Tom Schwarz, his opponent is an] undefeated fighter, itโ€™s the same as before Tyson fought Klitschko, heโ€™s in the same position now. Tyson was 24-0 and no one gave him an earthly [chance] against Klitschko. Anything can happen in boxing. I think Tysonโ€™s too smart for all of them but it is what is, itโ€™s his [ESPN] debut fight and thatโ€™s where weโ€™re at.โ€

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He sees Fury returning to Britain for a major fight, ideally against Anthony Joshua. โ€œI would hope that he comes back to a super-fight. I would hope that he comes back after beating Deontay [Wilder]. I hope he comes back and if that fight can be made that would be great.โ€

There will be other viable opponents by then, with Daniel Dubois, Nathan Gorman and Joe Joyce looking to push forward. โ€œThatโ€™s what these guys are all about, itโ€™s the next level,โ€ Warren said. โ€œTheyโ€™re the three best fighters at that level in the world and by the time he does come back one of them may even be a mandatory challenger by then.โ€

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