DEONTAY WILDER is ready to fight Oleksandr Usyk if Tyson Fury prices himself out of a unification bout.
Fury maintained he would end his retirement if he was paid a record-breaking £500MILLION purse to return.
So it is no wonder talks to face Usyk in the heavyweight division’s first four-belt undisputed decider have stalled.
But Wilder, who returns on October 15 against Robert Helenius, has offered himself up as an alternative for the Ukrainian champion.
He said: “If he overprices himself, they know where to find me. £500million is definitely pricing himself out.
“I’m here, Deontay Wilder’s back. I’m here to make the division back strong and exciting again.
“I’m here for all the smoke. But we’ll see what happens. Boxing is a business. It’s strictly a business and you’ve gotta treat it accordingly.
“We’ll see how the business has to be handled for that fight to happen.”
Wilder, 36, faces Helenius, 38, in what will be first bout since losing to Fury in their epic trilogy bout classic last October.
The unbeaten British legend, 34, then knocked out Dillian Whyte, also 34, in what he claimed would be his final fight.
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Although plans changed when Usyk, 35, beat Anthony Joshua, 32, for the second time in 11 months and called Fury out afterwards.
But the pound-for-pound star has ruled out any unification until next year after returning to his war-torn home for the first time.
Usyk plans to rest and recover with the loved ones he left for training camp amid Russia’s invasion.
But the unpredictable Fury is not willing to wait around and claimed he is set to announce his next fight after making a brief WWE cameo.
He said after WWE’s Clash of The Castle last week: “Usyk was calling me out after his last fight with Joshua.
“I’ve replied and said let’s do the fight this year, wherever they want to do it.
“I’ve been waiting for offers from countries to come forward, and all of a sudden Usyk has stated he doesn’t want to fight any more, he wants to fight next year, not this year.
“So, I’m not going to wait around for anybody, I’m announcing a fight next week.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
