Fury has no intention of fighting Top 10 fighters, it's only important for him to be associated with fighters like Ruiz and Zhang because he likes to be noticed and that's good for his ego, as long as he gets attention nothing will get better...
"Frank Warren has said Ruiz is ruled out due to his financial demands." In other words Ruiz wouldn't agree to 95/5 split in Fury's favor.
If Fury actually wanted to fight Zhang I don't see any real obstacles to making that fight. Both Joyce and Zhang are with Queensberry and are known to be easy to deal with. It can't be too difficult to pay some step-aside money to Joyce, considering how big financially the Fury-Zhang fight can be. But we know Zhang and Ruiz are not the type of guys Fury likes to fight so the chances of either fight happening seem pretty slim.
And I was just off to get my ticket to China as well. As if it was ever on. The HW division is stacked with fighters who don't fight. Tiresome Fury leading the way.
"I want to get him out whatever happens" IS generally code for a weak opponent. SA and etc. really has ****ed things up.
Warren promotes both Fury an Joyce. You think that if Fury really wanted to fight Zhang that Warren couldn't have talked Joyce out of taking the Zhang rematch straight away especially after the facial an eye damage Joyce suffered?