It’ll cost consumers in the United States the same amount to purchase the third Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder heavyweight title fight through traditional pay-per-view providers as it did for their rematch.
BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the suggested retail price in the U.S. for Fury-Wilder III is $79.99. Their second bout, which Fury won by seventh-round technical knockout in February 2020, generated more than 825,000 buys at the same price point.
Their third fight for Fury’s WBC heavyweight championship, scheduled for Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, is another joint venture between ESPN and FOX Sports. The two networks haven’t put as much marketing muscle behind their third meeting, however, as their rematch, which was even promoted during FOX’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV.
The purchase price to watch Fury-Wilder III in Fury’s home country of England, as well as the rest of the United Kingdom and Ireland, is slightly higher than usual. It’ll cost £24.95 to watch Fury-Wilder III through BT Sport Box Office in the UK, where their 12-round main event will begin in the wee hours of the morning Sunday.
This 12-round bout between Manchester’s Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) and Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs), of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is the highest-profile fight on the boxing calendar in the U.S. and the UK for the remainder of 2021.
Fury, 33, is listed by Caesars Sportsbook as a 3-1 favorite to defeat Wilder again.
Wilder, 35, will work with a new head trainer, retired heavyweight Malik Scott, for the first time when he faces Fury for the third time since December 2018. Their first fight, in which Fury survived a knockdown apiece in the ninth and 12th rounds, resulted in a split draw at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Fury and Wilder will headline a four-fight pay-per-view show scheduled to start at 9 p.m. EDT.
In the 10-round co-feature, Nigerian heavyweight Efe Ajagba (15-0, 12 KOs) is set to encounter Cuba’s Frank Sanchez (18-0, 13 KOs). Finland’s Robert Helenius (30-3, 19 KOs) and Brooklyn’s Adam Kownacki (20-1, 15 KOs) are scheduled to meet in a 12-round heavyweight rematch immediately before the Ajagba-Sanchez bout.
The pay-per-view portion of the show will begin with an eight-rounder in which Jared Anderson (9-0, 9 KOs), a highly touted heavyweight prospect from Toledo, Ohio, will battle Russian veteran Vladimir Tereshkin (22-0-1, 12 KOs).
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.