January 21, 2022
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Fury vs. Whyte Status

The World Boxing Council has received requests from the teams of Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte, to extend the period of free negotiations to finalize the fight. If there is no agreement, a purse bid will be held this coming Wednesday, January 26th.

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  • Heavyweight Title fights should be about proving who’s the best. That fight right now needs to be Tyson Fury vs Usyk. The only other things that need to be established is who is most deserving of a title shot between Joshua, Ortiz, Whyte and Wilder. I hate the way heavyweight boxing works today. Fury being required to fight the 5th or 6th best heavyweight in the world when the man only fights about once a year. Waste of time. Mediocre matchups are killing the sport.

    • Agreed. This crap is killing the sport…and WBA “champion” Trevor Bryan is defending his “title” on Pay Per View! Bizarre.

      • Trev is a household name. He’s the true heavyweight kingpin. All the others are just pretenders.

  • January 26th, Feb 26th, March 26th, April 26th……. lol seems its not happening without a purse bid. or probable with one either

  • Just fight somebody. After Ali beat Foreman near the end of 1974 he fought 4 times in 1975 including Lyle, Bugner and Frazier. He then fought 4 times in 1976 including Young and Norton.

    I’m not expecting anything like that from Fury, especially since there’s nobody around in the same league as Lyle, Frazier, Young or Norton, but fighting more than once a year would be nice. And while everybody seems to have deemed Fury as nearly unbeatable in reality he has a very thin resume. He did beat Wlad, but Wlad was a few months shy of his 40th birthday. Besides Wlad the only other notable wins on his resume are the clumsy, limited Wilder and a good stoppage win over Chisora.

    If he’s really so good, let’s see him fight at least twice a year against somebody in the top 10-15. Let’s see him prove he’s as good as he thinks.

  • I believe the problem in this back and forth is Whyte, that is overpricing himself. He knows this is only one way ticket and is trying to get the most of it, but he is a devalued after his loss to Povetkin, loss that took away all the intrigue of Whyte vs Fury

    • I think your right. Whyte knows this is his last chance to make any big money.. I don’t think Whyte will be happy with the purse bid either.. Any purse bid I’ve ever seen has always been 75% to the champion and 25% to the contender… The champion has to get more after all he”s the champion… If Whyte doesn’t accept the offer at that point he will lose his chance to fight for the title and it’s back to the end of the line… And like you say Whyte didn’t do himself any good by losing to Povetkin….

  • Beggars can’t be choosers. Sign the damn contract, White. I’m tired of your arrogant bullshit.

  • Frank Warren doesn’t want to lose a huge UK matchup to another promoter via purse bid, so it’s in Whyte’s interest to hold out. I guess they will settle with Whyte getting in the 25-30% range.

  • Translation: Whyte has finally come around to the realization that he’s either going to get what Fury and his people offer him, or else he’s going to wind up with nothing – no title shot, no money.

  • Whyte is a true top contender and WBC interim champion and should get what he deserves, not the peanuts cheapskate Arum is offering.

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