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After years of verbal warfare, the path is finally clear for Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte to squash their beef in a highly-billed domestic grudge match next year.
On Tuesday the WBC officially ordered Fury, their current heavyweight champion, to defend his strap against mandatory challenger Whyte following the conclusion of his legal battle with the sanctioning body.
Whyte risked being left in the cold once more when his attempt to enforce a long-awaited mandatory position briefly left him with egg on his face, as WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman initially held back on ordering his world-title shot last month ahead of an impending arbitration.
Dillian Whyte is finally set for a crack at the world heavyweight title against Tyson Fury
Fury has been ordered to defend his WBC title against mandatory challenger Whyte
That delay triggered talk of an undisputed battle between Fury and three-belt holder Oleksandr Usyk, which could have become reality if Anthony Joshua agreed to step aside from his rematch with the latter.
Fortunately for Whyte, who previously spent over 1,000 days as the WBC's No 1 ranked contender before he was brutally knocked out by Alexander Povetkin last year, Sulaiman has given him the green light to begin negotiations with Fury.
The Brixton man's sights are therefore now set on his first ever world-title tilt and a showdown with Fury which is several years in the making.
The bitter rivals and former sparring partners have exchanged numerous unpleasantries since the
