Via Jeff Aaron: Dillian Whyte and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury have signed on for an April 23 bout at Wembley Stadium in London, according to Sky Sports. The battle is now a done deal!
Whyte pushed it to the last day of the deadline on Monday before finally signing on for his mandatory title hit against WBC champion Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs).
If Whyte doesn’t sign by midnight tonight, he will lose the fight and 7.3 million dollars purse.
Whyte is said to have bent in the 80/20 split for the fight, as he wants a fairer deal. 55/45that’s the norm for interim WBC champions.
Now that the Fury-Whyte contest has been signed, it remains to be seen whether Dillian, 34, gets involved in promoting the fight by speaking in press conferences and giving interviews to the media. are not.
It will make Whyte look immature and resentful if he doesn’t help fuel the fight, which could hurt the rest of his career.
If other promoters are worried about setting up wars with Whyte for fear of him being passive-aggressive or withdrawing from the match, they will avoid him in favor of more reliable opponents.
This is Whyte’s chance to become a star by showing his personality to fans who have never seen him before, and it would be a shame if he threw that away by treating the media with silence.
That’s money Whyte won’t make elsewhere unless he is matched against Anthony Joshua, but he is unavailable to provide him with a shot due to plans to face Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch. fight.
“Dillian Whyte and Tyson Fury both signed for their WBC heavyweight title fight, Sky Sports understands,” Sports sky.
“Contracts have been finalized, signed and submitted to WBC in the closing hours of a deadline day for Fury and Whyte to strike an agreement ahead of their scheduled fight at Wembley in April. “
It’s hard to believe Whyte could make it through the big payday and get the chance to try his hand at toppling Fury as the WBC champion. Two years ago fought each other, and Whyte is said to have outplayed Fury throughout the trading session.
However, it will be a bit harder for Whyte to beat Fury to claim his WBC belt as he has made many improvements in his game over the years and is almost unbeatable so far. .
Dillian won the vacated WBC heavyweight belt three years ago, defeating Oscar Rivas in a title elimination match. However, a year later, Whyte was stopped in round 5 by 40-year-old Alexander Povetkin in August 2020 at Eddie Hearn’s childhood home in a massive mansion in Brentwood, Essex. In that loss, Whyte lost the interim WBC title.
In March 2021, Whyte reclaimed his interim WBC title, stopping Povetkin from depleting, post-COVID-19 being defeated in the fourth round at Gibraltar.
For his part, Fury is about to have an 11-round knockout win over Deontay Wilder in their trio match last October in Las Vegas. It was a fight where Fury was knocked out twice in game four and needed to get through fire to win.
The Fury-Whyte fight is crucial, as the contest winner will face winner Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk II for the undisputed championship later this year. So far, the Joshua-Usyk match has not been signed, but it is believed that the contest will take place in June.
“Wherever they want to fight, whenever they want to fight, I don’t care,” Whyte told Sky Sports.
“I tried to fight him for a long time. I’ve been ready to fight him for a long time.
