{"id":177,"date":"2021-07-09T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=122879"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:06:58","slug":"tyson-fury-vs-deontay-wilder-postponed-after-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/tyson-fury-vs-deontay-wilder-postponed-after-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder postponed after Covid-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports in the US and as reported by Sky Sports, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder\u2019s upcoming fight has been postponed until October due to an outbreak of <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Covid-19<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u00a0 in Fury\u2019s camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead, it has been scheduled for three weeks\u2019 time in Las Vegas on July 24 for the three-round trilogy fight for Fury\u2019s WBC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the fight would be delayed because of an outbreak of Covid-19. However, Top Rank, Fury\u2019s US promoter, issued a statement saying: \u201cWe continue to monitor the health status of Tyson and his team and the status of the event has not changed to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports did not receive a response from Wilder\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 has infected at least 10 people in Fury\u2019s gym in Vegas, according to The Athletic. ESPN reports that Fury himself tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The former WBO heavyweight champ Joseph Parker was also training with Fury, but his manager David Higgins told Sky Sports: \u201cJoseph does not have Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to his promoter Eddie Hearn, Dillian Whyte is available and willing to replace Fury on July 24.<\/p>\n<p>Fury vs Wilder has been postponed, which means Anthony Joshua will now be expected to face his two divisional rivals behind the ropes. Joshua will defend his IBF, WBA, and WBO titles against Oleksandr Usyk in London on September 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury and \u2018at least 10 members\u2019 of his team have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":23320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[897,2238,979,400,2239,2112,2237],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-espn","tag-las-vegas","tag-london","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-sky-sports","tag-wbc"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}