Tyson Fury is set to return to the ring in March and will fight in the UK in his next bout, his co-promoter Bob Arum has stated.
Fury was victorious earlier this month against Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas, retaining his WBC belt in a heavyweight classic.
However, plans for a unification bout in 2022 against Anthony Joshua were scuppered after his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in September - with a rematch between the pair now set to take place.
Fury will therefore have to return to the ring to face a different opponent but his next fight still looks set to be his long-awaited return to a fight on British shores.
Arum has confirmed that is the plan for Fury and named two potential opponents for a fight date in March 2022.
"If I had to guess, I would say probably March. Dillian Whyte is not the mandatory, and that’s what the WBC hasn’t done," he told Blood Sports TV.
“Dillian Whyte has an obligation to fight Wallin, and we’ll see. But again, in March, I’d like Tyson Fury to fight in the UK, and I would think among the opponents would be Dillian Whyte or maybe this big English guy, Joe Joyce."
Dillian Whyte was due to face Otto Wallin this weekend, where victory would have secured his status as mandatory challenger in the WBC, but withdrew due to injury and it remains to be seen whether the bout will be rescheduled.
Meanwhile, Joyce has caught the eye with victorious over the previously undefeated Daniel Dubois and Fury is said to have labelled the 'juggernaut' as a future champion.
Fury has not fought in the UK since the early days of his return to the ring in 2018, prior to the first of his three bouts with Wilder.
