Deontay Wilder should be focusing on agreeing a world heavyweight unification title fight against Anthony Joshua rather than a rematch with Tyson Fury, says Eddie Hearn.
Wilder fought out a split-decision draw with fury earlier this month and the WBC, whose belt Wilder holds, have now sanctioned a rematch .
However, Joshua holds the other three belts in the division – the IBF, WBA and WBO titles – and his promoter Hearn believes he should be Wilder’s priority.
Hearn said: “If Wilder wants to be undisputed – he’s always gone on in his career about one face, one name, one king of the division – the only way you can do that is to win the belts.
“Anthony Joshua has 75 per cent of the belts, but we want that 25 per cent. If he (Wilder) does want to create a legacy, he’s got to fight Joshua, then he can fight Fury.
“But he may go straight into the Fury fight. These next couple of weeks are going to be very interesting. It’s great times in the heavyweight division, anything can happen.”
