Tyson Fury's promoter Frank Warren wants the new WBC heavyweight champion to fight fellow Brit Anthony Joshua next in a world title unification bout but says Deontay Wilder will first have to be persuaded to forgo an immediate rematch.
Fury claimed the WBC title in Las Vegas on Saturday with a seventh-round stoppage of Wilder, who fought the Briton to a split-decision draw in their first meeting in December 2018.
Wilder said this week that he would exercise his option of a third fight but Warren said he does not want to delay a mouth-watering match-up with Joshua, who holds the other three titles.
"I prefer to go straight to Joshua but that's the contract," Warren told the BBC. "If he insists on the fight, we're locked into it.
"I'm disappointed, but obviously understand it as well," Hearn told TalkSPORT of Wilder's decision to take on the 'Gypsy King' for a third time.
"He was the champion, he's lost his belt and wants to win it back.
"I don't think people want to see the third fight (the first one in December 2018 was a draw). They've had 19 rounds now, I think Wilder's probably won three of them, and in the last fight he didn't win any and he got battered.
"But I understand the contractual position. He does have a right to a rematch clause and it looks like he's exercising it.
"I'd just say 'hurry up please' and do it quickly."
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