TALKS are taking place to bring world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to Furness for a night of entertainment.

The Morecambe fighter – who claimed the WBA, IBF and WBO world crown with victory over Wladimir Klitschko in November – is being lined up for an event at Hawcoat Park.

Fury has visited Furness several times in the past, meeting young fighters at Barrow Amateur Boxing Club, but his international profile has rocketed since.

He has been spotted in Cumbria several times in recent weeks – including visiting pubs in Eskdale – but the Hawcoat Park date would his first official visit to the area since 2011.

Promoter Glenn Higgins is hopeful the event can be finalised for the summer – after Fury has taken on Kiltschko on a rematch – and said: “Discussions have been going well with Tyson and his uncle Peter.

“We were hoping he would come within the next couple of months, but he has a lot of corporate engagements and he is going back into camp to train for Klitschko again in June. It looks as though it will be in July or August.

It will be a black-tie affair and we are hoping to involve the local amateur boxing community.”

Deontay Wilder has told Fury he is prepared to fight him in England and unify their heavyweight belts if the Briton wins his rematch bout with Klitschko.

Undefeated WBC champion Wilder was confronted in the ring by Fury after taking his record to 36-0 with victory over Artur Szpilka in Brooklyn last month.

Fury has to meet Klitschko again after the Ukrainian invoked his rematch clause having lost his WBA, IBF and WBO belts in November, but Wilder has his sights set on facing whoever emerges victorious from that contest after his mandatory clash with Alexander Povetkin, possibly in April.

And the 30-year-old would be willing to venture on to Fury’s own patch to make it happen.

“When he got in the ring I told him I’ll come to his backyard and I mean that,” he said in an appearance at Super Bowl 50’s Radio Row in San Francisco.