With the fight still days away, the next opponent for whoever wins the trilogy between WBC Heavyweight Champ Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder is already taking shape.
Promoter Frank Warren insists that Dillian Whyte is to make the mandatory WBC title challenger if he gets to win over Otto Wallin on their bout.
This is becoming possible after the Anthony Joshua defeat that crushed the unification dream in the heavyweight division.
Whyte is currently the WBC interim champ and has all the right to be lined up next as Joshua will pursue an immediate rematch to the now-unified heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk.
“As long as Dillian beats Otto Wallin, then Whyte is mandatory for the winner of that fight immediately,” Warren said on IFL TV.
“There is no reason not to do it—Dillian, who 100 percent would have wanted AJ to win because he’s not like that.
“He now sits there as probably a mandatory cast-iron challenger to the winner of Wilder-Fury.
“So now, while you’re waiting for the undisputed fight, which, if it does happen, will probably happen next summer.
“The winner of Wilder-Fury will probably fight the winner of Whyte-Wallin because they will have to because the mandatory will be called.”
