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The two parties now have 30 days to agree a deal or purse bids will be called (PA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tyson Fury has been ordered to defend his WBC heavyweight title against Dillian Whyte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British rival has been named the \u2018Gypsy King\u2019s\u2019 mandatory challenger by the sanctioning body and the two parties now have 30 days to agree a deal or purse bids will be called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A war of words between the former sparring partners has been growing since Fury\u2019s knock-out defense of his title against Deontay Wilder in their trilogy fight in Las Vegas on October 9th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fury then had a window of 30 days to set up a blockbuster undisputed clash with Oleksandr Usyk, who took the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles from Anthony Joshua in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There had been talk of Joshua stepping aside to allow the two champions to meet in the ring, but Joshua triggered his contractual clause to force a rematch with the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Whyte pulled out of an October bout with Otto Wallin. When Fury\u2019s 30-day deadline passed without an agreement to fight Usyk, the WBC did not immediately order the Whyte fight due to the challenger\u2019s ongoing arbitration dispute against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it has now done so and a mouth-watering all-British fight is likely to take place in February or March, with Cardiff and Manchester mooted as potential locations.<\/p>\n

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