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Report: Wilder-Fury III Postponed Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

The third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will not be held on July 18, as previously scheduled, and will instead be postponed to a later date, according to ESPN's Dan Rafael.

Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told ESPN that the parties would look to try and move the fight to the fall.

"You could not guarantee the fighters that the event would take place on that date. We couldn't convince them or ourselves," Arum told ESPN of a possible July 18 fight. "Where were they going to train for it? It just made no sense.