Impossible for Fury to become Franchise WBC champion says Eddie Hearn

By Albert Craine - 11/11/2021 - Comments

Eddie Hearn says WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury can’t be made Franchise champion at this point. Fury, 33, can vacate or retire, but being made Franchise champion is not possible.

The Matchroom Boxing promoter Hearn says things are going on behind the scenes, making it impossible for Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) to be elevated to Franchise champion.

It’s believed that Fury may try to use the Franchise route to swerve mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte so that he can move straight into a fight against the winner of the Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk 2 rematch next year.

Hearn says that he expects the World Boxing Council to order the Fury vs. Whyte fight next week at their convention. Once that happens, Hearn says Fury can vacate if he wishes, but he believes he won’t. He thinks Fury will take the fight with Whyte, but if he chooses not, he’ll have to give up his WBC title.

Although Hearn isn’t saying why Fury can’t be made Franchise champion, it could be that he waited too long.

Fury has held the WBC title since February of 2020, and he only recently made his first defense of his belt in a rematch with Deoontay Wilder last October.

In the meantime, Whyte has held the WBC mandatory spot since he won it back earlier this year in March with his fourth round knockout of Alexander Povetkin in their rematch.

Hearn: Fury can vacate or retire if he wants

“He can definitely do what he wants; I think he’s earned that spot,” said Eddie Hearn to iFL TV on Tyson Fury. “He’s done brilliant, Tyson Fury. If he wants to vacate the WBC world title, if he wants to retire, he can do any of those things.

Impossible for Fury to become Franchise WBC champion says Eddie Hearn

“I just don’t think he’s about that,” said Hearn of Fury. “I think he’s a champion [with the WBC], and as a champion, you take care of your mandatory defenses. You’ve seen AJ do it.

“If we had that attitude, maybe we [Anthony Joshua] wouldn’t have fought Oleksandr Usyk and wouldn’t have got beat. But you’re supposed to defend your throne, and I keep going back to Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte is a brilliant fight.

“It’s a brilliant fight. It’s a massive UK fight, and I think that’ll get called next week at the WBC convention], and I think Tyson Fury will do it, I really do.

“I don’t think he wants to retire. He’s got that fight, and he’s got the AJ fight, the Usyk fight, or whatever it could be. But he’s still got massive fights in him, but whatever makes him happy,” said Hearn.

If Fury vacates his WBC title, Whyte would most likely be elevated to the full championship status because he currently holds the interim WBC title.

Hearn would then likely push for the winner of the Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksander Usyk 2 fight to face Whyte next rather than Fury, who would be beltless at that point.

Both Joshua and Usyk want to become the undisputed heavyweight champion, so they would potentially take the fight with Whyte if he has the WBC title.

It’s not in Fury’s best interest for him to vacate or push the WBC to elevate him to Franchise champion. With Joshua and Usyk both wanting to become undisputed champion, they’ll take the lower-paying fight against Whyte rather than the mega-payday against a beltless Fury.

WBC can’t make Fury Franchise champion

“He may hang them up, but I don’t see it,” said Hearn of Fury. “Yeah, but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that I think will make that impossible quite frankly,” said Hearn when asked about the possibility of Fury being elevated to Franchise champion with the WBC and vacating his title.

“But again, we’ll see what happens next week [at the WBC convention in Mexico]. I know nothing is a given, but I am very confident that fight [Fury vs. Whyte] gets ordered at the convention next week,” said Hearn about Tyson having no option but to defend against Dillian next after the WBC orders the fight at their convention next week in Mexico.

It sounds like it’s too late for Fury to attempt to become WBC Franchise champion. He should have asked the WBC to give him that tag last year, and he could have swerved the fight with Whyte.

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46 thoughts on “Impossible for Fury to become Franchise WBC champion says Eddie Hearn”

  1. Wow I really can’t believe how stupid Americans are, go and watch WWE because you don’t have a clue about boxing. I can’t believe you watch wilder get absolutely schooled in 3 fights and still think he was cheated. He is one of worst heavyweight fighters of all time, with a good punch, and the only decent fighter he has faced is fury. iDIOTS

  2. Wilder is just a big punch. No stamina no chin and zero boxing skills. The heavyweight belts are in europe where they will stay for many years.

  3. I’m a white woman. The use of flopping gloves padding repositioning advantage steroid and glove tampering cocaine bribery rabbit punching and eggweight loaded gloves, drugging opponents, and fighting under the influence of enhancement drugs bribing referee’s and judges, spiking water holding neck wrenching tripping all were necessary evils. How else could the potential Shrek look a like ogre ever best Deontay Wilder with his bald head.

    • Yo, white woman, you’re a stright-up clown. Go back to the insane asylum where you came from. Also, before posting another comment, please try to exercise more than three brain cells…. that is, if you got em.

    • You’re honest-to-god one of the most brainless clowns I’ve ever come across. Both mentally challenged AND insane. BTW, if Fury is Schrek, then you’re the donkey….and by “donkey”, I mean an jackass.

  4. We all agree with Sonya Dumas. Canello duck’s the best fighters and fury should be stripped of the WBC belt fined and imprisoned.

  5. Are you men sound worse than a bunch of hackling women you guys are worse than women aren’t you grow up and stop sniveling

    • You are assuming we are all men. What other assumptions are you asserting? Gloves flopping around all over the place? Under the cameras video evidence? Over and over again until you say,” get over it?” Is this attempted murder being minimalized by Sonya? How many billions were changing hands with this fixed fight with gambling profits? It’s you who should grow up!

  6. You’re just a hater mad because Wilder isn’t got a belt you wanna blame it on everybody else you can put Canelo in it get used to it kanelo’s the face of boxing baseball team

  7. I am sick of people like Fury and Trump,doing all kinds of wrong and getting away with it!!!!!

  8. Mauricio Suliaman could have fury pull a gun and shoot Deontay Wilder in the ring and they would get away with it, you wouldn’t say anything about it. Mich less sell fury a franchise belt.

  9. The best boxers are in the Americas. The European fighters come here to learn how to box and how to cheat. It was sugar Hill Stewart flippity floppity flipping around all over the place glove tampering technique fury learning to load gloves with eggweights all American ingenuity.

  10. Laughable? You are a bunch of proven, documented examples
    The British boxing board of control suspended permanently, indefinitely suspended fury’s boxing license in the UK because of his career having been a legacy of cheating tactics again and again and again until they simply tired of catching him. He is a drug addict, a chronic glove tampering fraud. Even you saw the loaded gloves padding repositioning advantage floppy gloves flopping around all over the place flipping and flopping flippity floppity and the Nevada State Athletic Commission approved those gloves didn’t they. Bribery, just like before with Martin Carefoot.

  11. Something has to be done because fury can’t load gloves forever, and he can’t box. He will.lose.to practically every top.contender.

  12. There’s a bunch of scheming thinkers matching wits here. The best should fight the best. Boxing fans are tired of excuses from fury. Deontay Wilder, Mike Tyson, Rocky Marciano all of the great fighters fought the best, they took on all comer’s.

    • If I were Anthony Joshua or Oleksandr Usyk or fury, I would be coursed into avoiding Luis Ortiz and Deontay Wilder forever too. And if I were forced to fight any of those fighters, I would have to cheat as well.

  13. Did you know Dillian Whyte, fury, Anthony Joshua, none of these Europeans have ever fought Luis king Kong Ortiz? 🦆 🦆 🦆 Why?
    1. Deontay Wilder
    2. Luis Ortiz

    • Yes, I agree, the fury fanboys are jealous of Deontay Wilders legacy of representing the United States Of America so we’ll. That’s why fury was forced to cheat against Deontay Wilder again, because he was afraid of Deontay Wilder. Deontay Wilder is the best heavyweight champion that ever lived without question.

    • They’re tomato cans. Punching bags for actual top five heavyweight fighters. Notice lack of actual of fighters on each resumes except for wilders getting outclassed by wilder. Fury won every round where a knockdown wasn’t included. That’s a sparring department not an opponent. 😳

    • Deontay Wilders gloves had padding, the other guy doesn’t have padding in his gloves.

    • You guys comments are absolutely laughable! I’m American and I vehemently give the Gypsy King all props for his accomplishments in and out of the ring. What else does the man have to do!? He’s the lineal and WBC Heavyweight Champion of the World (.) PERIOD. All this Wilder fan bus cheating bs went out along with Wilders lights, and if all the red tape were to be scrapped, you would be looking at the Undisputed HCOW without question. Too many clowns on here. Can’t believe some of the things you guys say hahaha.

  14. The very concept of mandatory bouts was conceived and implemented by the WBC. It is a concept that lends itself to ambiguity and false interpretation, like the franchise belt.

  15. The franchise belt is fury’s for the buying , just like the one that Deontay Wilder got robbed of because of it being sold, sold to the highest bidder.
    There’s no way fury could ever beat Deontay Wilder. Deontay Wilder was robbed and cheated again and again and again and again and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by another force. Been cheating and will continue to cheat.

  16. Maricio Suliaman allowed fury to load gloves without investigation and Eddie Hearn’s is saying fury can’t buy a franchise belt?

  17. Now surly Luis king Kong Ortiz will never fight fury. Next to Deontay Wilder, Luis Ortiz is the most avoided fighter in the division.

  18. This belt is a haven for drug cheats and for duckers avoiding fighting the best. This belt made Canelo a lot of money and all while fighting people he.was likely to beat easily. And all while the belt protecting them from fighting the best. Sounds like something fury would be willing to pay for.its.not.cheap and unlike Martin.Carefoot, fury.will pay first.

    • Stop making up stuff you’re nothing but a liar you wanna blame everything at everybody else Canelo’s the face of boxing hes running things get used to it….

  19. Franchise it is. The franchise belt is for sale and so is Maricio Suliaman president of the WBC.

    • Okay 👍, you made your point! Deontay Wilder got robbed. It’s true , I didn’t want to believe it, fury cheated again. But he is a better boxer than Deontay Wilder in my opinion so it doesn’t matter if fury cheated.

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