Don't be naïve: if Wilder hadn't wanted to fight Fury the WBC wouldn't have made him mandatory. Whyte failed another PED test and Fury replaced him because that was the big money, high status fight, not some irrelevant chinny plodder who we now know couldn't land a meaningful punch on Fury over 6 rounds, before getting one-shotted in one of the most embarrassing title challenges in recent memory. And even if Wilder was "forced by the WBC" (lmao) to fight Fury, he didn't have to fight Fury in the trilogy did he? He could have done a Vitali and never fought his first conqueror (Byrd) again, or done a Lewis and had four rehabilitation fights before seeking to avenge his first defeat.