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WWE champion Drew McIntyre is still crossing his fingers that a future wrestling match will come off, in a UK stadium, against WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Last October, Fury made his WWE in-ring debut in Saudi Arabia, and defeated current champion Braun Strowman by countout.
Fury has made it known that he’s very interested in future work with the WWE, and at initially was targeting a match with Brock Lesnar.
McIntyre defeated Lesnar for the title at this year’s Wrestlemania.
Fury will first focus on his boxing commitments, which including a contracted trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder – currently targeted for the tentative date of December 19th in the United States.
Because of their respective UK followings, McIntyre believes a match with Fury would become a major pay-per-view event.
“I started poking some bears. I started going after Tyson Fury, Colby Covington, soccer player Chris Sutton in the UK, even Conor McGregor,” McIntyre told Corey Graves’ After the Bell podcast.
“Tyson and I have been going back and forth to the point where we’re trying to push this big UK pay-per-view that hasn’t happened since SummerSlam ‘92. And a lot of people have started talking about it to the point where people within the office are asking me, ‘Do you know something we don’t know? Is this really gonna happen? Because you talk about it so much, yourself and Fury have got a dialogue going to the point where you’re both main eventing this Summerslam pay-per-view.’
“And that’s literally what I said. If I have to fight Tyson Fury in the UK to get this big UK pay-per-view…we’re absolutely gonna do it.”