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Published 15:46 23 Mar 2019 GMT
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But now, Fury's American promoter Bob Arum has claimed that Fury will actually take a second interim bout in the US, which would push the Wilder rematch into early 2020.
"Assuming he (Fury) wins this fight, he’ll have another appearance in the United States. Then hopefully next year in February he’ll end up fighting Wilder," Arum told World Boxing News.
"Their idea is to have Wilder fight twice on their platform and then to get together a do a PPV fight. ESPN is just a distributor.
"It may well be that Wilder also has a network involved. They may want to share the distribution in some way with ESPN and that is something we’ve done before."
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