sport news Fury lands £80m TV deal - but it threatens to KO AJ and Wilder fights

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Tyson Fury has landed a television deal worth an astonishing £80million but which casts a doubt over his proposed world heavyweight title mega-fights with Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua.

Frank Warren's deal with US network ESPN for a string of Fury's next fights is a huge financial coup but conflicts with the TV contracts to which reigning world champions Joshua and Wilder are already committed. Fury will now also be co-promoted by Bob Arum's iconic Top Rank Boxing in the US.

The announcement at the headquarters of BT Sport, who will retain the rights to broadcast Fury's fights in Britain on pay-per-view, explains the delay in confirmation of the Gypsy King's rematch of his epic draw with Wilder in December.