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21st May 2019
11:29am BST

"This rematch has got to happen, but it won't be in May, June, July or August. This fight, I'm being told, is likely to happen in March or April next year."There were rumours of an immediate rematch between the two heavyweights, but it never came to fruition as contract talks fell through. Fury explained that a contract Wilder had already signed prevented the rematch from going ahead. We were very close to a rematch. We had contracts, they had contracts, we were trying to agree terms..
"All of a sudden I had a massive deal from ESPN and they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. That would've been in May I believe. "Deontay Wilder apparently signed a three-fight deal before I signed an ESPN deal. "He signed a deal to fight Dominic Breazeale, Luis Ortiz and Adam Kownacki, so this was all done even before I put pen to paper.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EgVe2Sa5M
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