Nothing is set in stone as of yet regarding when one of, if not the, biggest fight of the year will take place.

Eddie Hearn, promoter of Anthony Joshua, sent Deontay Wilder a contract last week ahead of a proposed bout in a few months time.

The fight was originally planned to be staged at Wembley on September 15, but Wilder continues to stall the deal, sparking more questions surrounding the event.

On top of that, the original date will now see Saul Alvarez face Gennady Golovkin in a rematch which means the Joshua-Wilder fight will have to be moved.

However, Hearn claims he is looking beyond that date rather than organising the clash sooner in order to let Joshua gain as much preparation as possible for the fight.

The Brit will have three of the four major world championships on the line as he battles for the final belt and his promoter has claimed the fight ‘is everything’.

"I'm not letting Anthony Joshua fight this fight with an eight-week camp, because this is everything, this fight," Hearn told Sky Sports.

"Everything that he's built towards, his whole professional career, maybe his whole boxing career is built towards this moment.

"We're not just going to go 'oh yeah, let's just dive in and do it on a date that doesn't give us the best prep time.”

With that in mind, Hearn then gave a realistic time frame in which he would like to see Joshua face Wilder.

"I think more realistically, October, November is a solution, but that does rule out the place where we wanted to stage it, which is Wembley, so lots to try and resolve, but we want the fight, we're prepared to sign for the fight now.

"They'll see the contract, they won't see anything out of the ordinary, then we'll go from there."

Hearn also revealed what Team Joshua think about the possibility of fighting Wilder and also Russian mandatory Alexander Povetkin.

The promoter stated he held discussions with Joshua and his trainer Rob McCracken, and they all spoke about the two possible fights.

"They want to get moving," said Hearn. "They boxed the 31st of March, so he's had a nice break. He's sort of just started ticking over now, but they would like to know. They would like a decision.

"They feel like Povetkin is a very, very tough fight. They feel like Wilder is a very, very tough fight, but AJ is up for fighting them both.

"Of course he wants the Wilder fight. He wants to be the undisputed champion, but if it's going to be slow-tracked, if people are going to mess around, if it's going to drag on, they would rather jump in and say okay, let's go end of September with Povetkin, and then keep the discussions going with Wilder, but sign now.

"Like I said, if Wilder says we're good to go, that's almost certainly going to be the next fight."

Extra care and extra time is going into this fight from Hearn and with an all or nothing outcome for Joshua, you can’t exactly blame him.