Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have a date for their trilogy fight.



The heavyweight title tilt is scheduled for Oct. 3 in Las Vegas, sources tell The Athletic, another pay-per-view collaboration between ESPN and FOX. No venue has been selected yet.



Despite multiple reports the bout was slated for July 18, that date was never scheduled. Fury-Wilder 3 is not moving because of the COVID-19 pandemic, sources say; organizers simply prefer the fall.



Preliminary plans for the third meeting were set in motion after Wilder exercised his rematch clause on Feb. 28, just six days after he suffered a seventh-round stoppage defeat to Fury.



Wilder will earn 40 percent to Fury’s 60 percent under the guidelines of the agreement after the fighters split the revenue evenly for their second bout. The pay-per-view generated approximately 800,000 to 850,000 buys, per sources (the first meeting pulled in around 325,000.)



When they met in December 2018,...