Manager of American heavyweight Deontay Wilder (42-2-1; 41 KOs) Shelley Finkel said that their team is ready to fight with the Ukrainian WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world champion Oleksandr Usyk (20-0; 13 KOs). TalkSPORT quoted him as saying :
“The other day we received a message that Usyk will fight Wilder if Joshua fights Fury. Yes, we are open to this at all. And if we don’t agree, there are Ruiz and several options.
But I think that until Fury fights Joshua, we will still talk with Hearn after the fight between Deontay and Helenius. Anything can happen," he said.