If Wilder invokes the re-match will have to beat Fury and then have to beat Joshua in order to become undisputed and unified heavyweight champion of the world.
If he steps aside by taking $20 or so then allows Fury and Joshua to battle it then fights just once in order to have a chance to unify the belts and become champion again - that makes sense too.
Wilder and his ego along with a real chance that he will get battered by Fury again versus 2 big pay days with just one fight - this question is for Wilder to answer.
These are not rumours, the promoters (Hearn and Warren) have discussed it and it is on public record.
I just do not see this fight happening if Wilder is paid money to step aside to allow a Fury-Joshua fight to go ahead. It makes more sense for him to make phenomenal amounts of money for doing nothing.
Will Wilder take that money and loss his opportunity to regain himself? I don't think he is gonna do that, it's just some rumors or speculation from the boxing fans but I don't think it will really happen.
Would Wilder prefer to fight Fury and risk losing again and never end up fighting Joshua or would he prefer to let Fury and Joshua battle it out and then fight the unified heavyweight champion instead? HE can get paid two huge sums of money, one for waiving his right to invoke the re-match and the second huge payment for a winner-takes-all-the-belts fight against the winner of the Fury-Joshua fight.
Agree, Wilder can win. I don't get why people are speculating that Wilder has no chance of winning against Fury and he will just take the money, in reality, he just lose one game, and like every champion, he can always come back and win the fight.