After Tyson Fury knocked out Deontay Wilder in their heavyweight title bout earlier this year, most boxing fans assumed that we had just witnessed the second fight in an eventual trilogy.
The third fight appeared to be agreed to, with only dates needing to be set, with some suggestions that the fight could come as early as this summer. Then COVID-19 happened, the world got turned upside down, and no fight ever came.
According to a furious Deontay Wilder post on Twitter on Saturday, that third fight still isn’t happening. Wilder accused Fury of trying to “weasel out” of their rematch, suggesting that Fury will fight challenger Carlos Takam in London on December 5, and not Wilder.
For their part, Fury’s camp has not announced who the fight will be against on December 5, though Wilder would probably know if it was him, one would sort of have to think.
In a video and series of posts,
Warning: Explicit language below.
🤴🏿Fury Be A Man 🖕🏿@Tyson_Fury it is time for you to be a man and honor your agreement.
What is this bullshit of you fighting Carlos Takam instead of me, you got to be kidding… pic.twitter.com/qeo47CfHi4— Deontay Wilder (@BronzeBomber) October 31, 2020
In the rematch agreement, there was a rematch clause. Now it is time for you to be a man and honor your word, instead of trying to weasel out of our agreement. Scared people run but a scary man will break his contract you coward Azz B**čh!#BombZquad#TilThisDay
— Deontay Wilder (@BronzeBomber) October 31, 2020
It reads:
“When you were going through your darkest time, I told you that if you got yourself together I would give you a title shot. Being a man of my word, I gave you the title shot. When that fight was a draw, I told you that I would give you a rematch. You know I was offered more money to fight [Anthony] Joshua than I was getting to fight you. Again, being a man of my word, I fought you like I said I would.
“In the rematch agreement, there was a rematch clause. Now it is time for you to be a man and honor your word, instead of trying to weasel out of our agreement.”
