As fans may have read, Tyson Fury has been ordered by the WBC to defend his heavyweight title against Dillian Whyte. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the fight will happen next. Firstly, Fury is, as he has said many times, his own man – “I do what I want,” Fury has stated. Secondly, as Frank Warren said when speaking with Talk Sport, there has been no date put forward for a Fury-Whyte fight.
Fury’s main goal, Warren said today, is to fight Oleksandr Usyk in what would arguably be the most interesting heavyweight title fight in years. Right now, Warren explained, he and Fury are waiting to see if Anthony Joshua will take the step-aside money that has been spoken about so much just recently, in doing so making way for a Fury Vs. Usyk fight. This is the ideal fight, Warren said, adding that for him, a Fury-Whyte fight would be “the worst-case scenario.”
Warren hasn’t said Fury will not fight Whyte, only that he really wants Usyk.
“They haven’t told us what date the fight has to take place, at the moment they’ve just asked us to start negotiations so that’s what we’ll be starting to do,” Warren said in discussing the WBC order for Fury to fight Whyte. “We’re all working hard on the Usyk fight and getting Anthony Joshua to step aside, and we’ll have to see where we go with it. For me, the worst-case scenario is to fight Dillian. If he fights Dillian we’re likely to get it on in early March. He [Fury] wants to fight Usyk for obvious reasons, the belts being on the line and more money in the fight.”
So it seems it all hangs with Joshua and his will he/won’t he step aside? If A.J does agree to take step-aside cash (and it could be really big bucks, which would be hard to turn down), Fury may well go into a fight with Usyk, who holds the WBA/IBF and WBO belts. Fury could possibly even vacate the WBC belt. Fury will then have a great chance of beating the “too small” Usyk, scooping up the three other major belts. As of now, we’ll all just have to wait and see. But Warren did add how Fury is “living in the gym” and wants to fight soon.
“He’d like to fight Usyk but if it’s Dillian Whyte, it’s Dillian Whyte,” Warren said. “He will prepare for that fight as if it was Joe Frazier or Muhammad Ali, that’s Tyson’s mentality now.”
Whyte of course deserves his chance, but most of us would prefer to see Fury Vs. Usyk.
Chump punks, looking right at a photograph of an eggweight clearly visible through the leather glove, bare knuckle on the right glove and you are talking about,” duh I e don’t have to investigate, duh, it’s okay duh, “
You are a bunch of neanderthal, cave dwelling, grunting anocranistic fraudulent interloping foreign intruding weak minded youths accepting and encouraging criminals breaking the Queensbury rules of boxing, it’s utterly ridiculous and shameful.
So we have to listen to fury pretending that he didn’t load gloves for another year with the approval and support of the WBC, the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and fury’s UK fans.
Thank God for the British boxing board of control. They’re the only ones that are still full of honor and integrity.
I’m an American white male. American and, it seems, UK government policy is very much cast system. If a very dark skinned fighter says what’s on his mind and doesn’t pander. Then they do what they did to Deontay Wilder, Francis Ngganou, Jon Jones, and Luis Ortiz. It seems savage and barbaric. In this day and age.
I was jealous because I don’t have my face on a coin.
I was just joking about Dillian Whyte being too old and fat.
You can take Dillian Whyte, Dillian Whyte is too old and out of shape to handle fury’s bare knuckle and eggweight loaded gloves.
Is there any time to the rumor that Deontay Wilders gonna retire sweetheart? His hands smash to bits on oof,( other people’s faces).
Mandatory sounds like an order. It really is negotiable, if fury doesn’t want to fight , he won’t. Simple as that.
In other words fury does what he wants. If you don’t like it what you going to do about it? Only the UK has been able to.
This fight probably won’t happen.
Just because Dillian Whyte is the mandatory it doesn’t mean fury has to fight him.
You bet your ballots to a Barn dance you’re not backing out.
Vernon Hill is responsible for fury new found power
Why? Because he taught Rick Hatten to pull down the eggweight loaded left glove?
Both these guys are drug cheats
As for Dillian Whyte Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk, how is it that virtually all of the top heavyweights avoided both Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz? How is it possible to not fought Luis Ortiz in ten years? Luis Ortiz is second best heavyweight after Deontay Wilder. Luis Ortiz never lost to anyone except Deontay Wilder. How can he not be in the mandatory position?. Ever?
Don’t fight Dillian Whyte
Both of these boxers are old fat baldheaded potbellied fighters who have been caught cheating.
Whyte deserves his shot, Fury needs to actually fight a mandatory challenger as he’s never done it.. They are all mega rich so this shouldn’t be about money, it’ll make a change for a heavyweight champion to do the right thing.
Don’t expect fury to do the right thing.
Dillian Whyte will likely be offered a low ball percentage with a condition that fury wear gloves with no padding and if Dillian Whyte counters the offer , fury will claim Dillian Whyte chickened out.