CONFIRMED: Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora 3

It was a fight announcement that stole this week’s boxing headlines as a trilogy, unthinkable at the start of the year, was pencilled in for the end of it.

A third meeting between Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora was both defended and attacked by those on either side of the promotional divide. Elsewhere, Dillian Whyte’s return announcement coincided with his own verbal assault of Deontay Wilder. As for Wilder, a fight with Andy Ruiz looks ever closer as both men aim to become two-time champion of the world.

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A very heavyweight-dominated week started with Tyson Fury flaunting his 10K winnings after a bet with Frank Warren. £10,000 is a drop in the ocean for anyone at boxing’s top table, but that figure appears a sore sight when you realise it represents the failure once again to get Fury-Joshua negotiations over the line.

Joshua’s name was thrown around like confetti at Thursday’s press conference, and I’m sure the confetti will keep falling in the build up to December 3rd.

As for Fury-Chisora III, let’s not sugar-coat it, it wasn’t on anyone’s Christmas list. However, we sit here now only five weeks out with the promise that next year will deliver us fans the undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

And that is a present worth waiting for.

Dillian Whyte returns to the ring a week prior to his two former foes, as American Jermaine Franklin brings his 21-0 record to London. Whyte needs a statement win if he is to walk back into the school of heavyweights that lay claim to a world title shot.

Whyte also had choice words in the week for Deontay Wilder, who broke down in tears in the aftermath of his vicious knockout of Robert Helenius. Whyte didn’t hold back, saying he believed Wilder’s tears were “fake”, and calling him a “sick piece of s***”.

Wilder’s tears came when discussing the tragic story of Prichard Colon, an ex-fighter who now sits in a vegetative state after a brain injury back in 2015.

This, however, is a drastic change of stance from the 2018 Wilder who admitted he was actively seeking to legally kill a man in the ring.

So a change of heart perhaps, but no change of championship ambition for the former WBC king who is on the hunt for that same belt again.

Andy Ruiz is the name we are awaiting confirmation of, in a fight that would bring together two unlikely enemies. 6ft7 and 215lbs meets 6ft2 and 268lbs. Pick that one...

… and if you can’t pick it, then luckily for you it will pick itself as the fight is rumoured to get ordered at next month’s WBC convention. What a scorcher.

For now though, we move to a big week in the capital as Katie Taylor defends her titles in a city still feeling the ripple effect from a fortnight ago. Be sure to get all your best fight-week content from Wednesday onwards on iFL TV.