Finkel, told ESPN that the former heavyweight champion suffered a broken right hand “somewhere around round six” of the 11th-round KO loss to Fury. Wilder will have surgery on Oct. 18 in Atlanta to repair one of the middle metacarpals, and according to Finkel, won’t be able to train for approximately three to four months.
“He’ll fight sometime in the spring or early summer as long as he’s healthy and he’s good and he’s up to it. He’s still in pain with the hand and his equilibrium was off, somewhere around the third round [when Fury connected behind the ear], that’s why his balance wasn’t the same. He feels he trained so hard and then the two incidents – no disrespect at all to Fury – he put in all that effort and wasn’t able to fight him healthy,” Finkel further explained to ESPN.
