Tyson Fury is set to announce that his next opponent will be Derek Chisora, with the WBC Heavyweight champion hoping to fight Chisora in place of Anthony Joshua on December 3rd.
The fight is still expected to take place at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, with the venue in the Welsh capital having been expected to stage the fight against Joshua before negotiations fell through. The pair could not come to an agreement, with Fury setting an ultimatum for an agreement which was not met.
He has met Chisora twice before, with Fury winning in both 2011 and in 2014, with the latter coming a year before he became World Champion for the first time against Vladmir Klitschko. Meanwhile, Chisora has seen his stock rise within the heavyweight division having beaten Kubrat Pulev in July.
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However, Chisora is not one of the names who was most expected by fans to fight Fury, with his ranking of 14 with the WBC leaving some question marks surrounding the fight's prestige as a top world title fight. However, Fury has still reiterated his desire to make the fight, with the self-styled 'Gypsy King' speaking about the proposed fight and where negotiations currently stand.
"I don’t think anything has been signed yet but we’re about to announce next week. There will be an announcement next week of an opponent. I think we have four or five different guys who are in the hat, in the running right now, and one will be selected next week and then it will be on like Donkey Kong on December 3," Fury told Seconds Out.
"It’s like eeny, meeny, miny, moe, whichever one of these guys I want to make a millionaire. Because that’s what we’re dealing with, whichever one I want to give the lottery ticket to basically."
Fury added: "In my opinion, Chisora at least got a draw with [Oleksandr] Usyk. So I see Chisora every bit as dangerous as Usyk – if it is Chisora [that I fight]. Did you watch that fight? It was a very good fight, very close, and I thought Chisora deserved the draw minimum.
"I think Usyk’s manager had it as a draw as well, if I remember rightly. So Chisora is no pushover. If it is Chisora, he’s no pushover and if you’re not on you’re A game Derek will beat you to f---."
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