Tyson Fury has opened the door to a fourth showdown with Deontay Wilder.
Fury stopped Wilder in the eleventh round of their breathless trilogy clash last October, having halted the American in their second meeting after a controversial drawn first fight.
The WBC heavyweight world champion is set to return to the ring on December 3 after ending a brief stint in retirement following his knockout of Dillian Whyte in April and Derek Chisora is reportedly the frontrunner to face him for a third time in Cardiff.
Fury had been eyeing an undisputed heavyweight title clash against unified WBA ‘super’, WBO and IBF titlist, Oleksandr Usyk, although the Ukrainian who ‘The Gypsy King’ describes as a “middleweight” wanted more time to recover from his rematch win over Anthony Joshua in August.
Fury then offered Joshua the opportunity to face him and both teams had been in negotiations, before talks broke down last week.
Wilder returns for the first time since losing to Fury on Saturday when he meets Robert Helenius at Barclays Center, Brooklyn knowing victory will set up a final eliminator for Fury’s title against Andy Ruiz Jr.
And the 34-year-old Brit is not ruling out a fourth fight with ‘The Bronze Bomber’.
“Don’t write a fourth fight off between me and Wilder,” Fury told Seconds Out.
“You’ve got Usyk, didn’t want to fight.
“Offered millions and millions and millions to fight in December, ran out. B**** don’t want no smoke.
“Then you’ve got the bodybuilder over here who’s running away from the biggest payday he can ever get and making a million excuses [about] commercial rights, whatever the flip they are.
“Wilder in the meantime, if he beats Helenius they’re going to make a final eliminator [between] him and Andy Ruiz and if he beats Ruiz guess who’s back again? Big D!
“I don’t mind because the man wants to fight. It’s a great fight.
“We’ve had three good fights and if he becomes mandatory again and I don’t get this other fight with this little middleweight guy, who I’m just going to run through, then we’ll do Wilder again.
“Number one ranked mandatory if he gets to that position.
“Who wouldn’t want to watch that again?”
Wilder, 36, who takes part in a non-title fight for the first time since 2015, recently claimed that a fourth meeting with Fury was bound to happen.
“Most definitely,” Wilder said on the Last Stand Podcast when asked whether he’d be keen for a fourth bout.
“As long as he’s in the business and I’m in the business, it’s inevitable.”
