Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren/Queensberry Promotions won the right to stage the WBC heavyweight title fight between champion Tyson Fury and mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte at a purse bid on Friday in Mexico City. Warren’s bid of $41,025,000 far outpaced the $32,222,222 bid by Matchroom Boxing. Warren’s bid was the largest in the history of boxing. The split will be 80/20 for Fury.
So Fury-Whyte is on and there will be no step-aside deal for Anthony Joshua, who is now expected to finalize his rematch with WBA/IBF/WBO champ Oleksandr Usyk.
So are these bids blind. Why did Warren end up paying so much more than Matchroom bid?
Good fight anyway. I know some people think Fury is on another planet now, because he looked good against Wilder, but i think this is still an intriguing match up. I expect Fury to win, but in a more tactical fashion. Something more like Fury/Wilder 1.
Bids are submitted in a sealed envelope and the sides don’t know what the other bids are.
Thanks yeah I assumed. Didn’t realise before today though. I guess Warren showed some muscle there because he really couldn’t have Hearn promoting Fury.
If Fury is in good shape I can see the fight going much the same way as Fury vs (the then younger) Chisora went.
Maybe. I think Whyte is fitter than Chisora was back then. Even Chisora now is fitter than Chisora back then haha. I remember the first Fury Chisora fight was a good one, but Fury really hadn’t developed yet, so was a bit of a brawl. By the second fight, Fury was much more developed by Peter Fury and Chisora really was never fit, so was very one-sided
@CB: True, good insight
Still recon the 212½ lb Wilder was better than the 231 & 238 lb Wilder. He just moved better against Fury in the first fight. So hope for Whyte’s sake he goes in light and has more mobility.
Not bad a little over 32 million for Fury and a little over 8 million for Whyte. Not a bad payday at all for a man who was knocked out cold a little less than a year and a half ago.
This will be Fury’s easiest fight to date.
New for me that $820,000 was a little.
Whyte got to be mentally at his best most of all, this is your chance after all!!!
I guess in the end, Whyte almost gets what he was looking for anyway.
WOW 80/20… USUALLY IT’S 75/25… NO MATTER BECAUSE THE FIGHT WILL HAPPEN… BY MY CALCULATIONS WHYTE MAKES 8,205,000 AND THAT’S THE MOST HE’LL EVER MAKE UNLESS HE WINS THE FIGHT… 8 MILLION AINT NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT… FURY GETS 32,820,000 WOW… BIG TIME MONEY…. FURY’S ALL SET ANYWAY AFTER THE WILDER FIGHTS… EVEN IF HE LOSES HE’LL NEVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN… I THINK FURY WINS WE’LL JUST HAVE TO SEE… JUST GLAD THE FIGHT GOING TO HAPPEN
Whyte must have known what Matchroom was going to bid, so he could only do better than that in the bid. Did Top Rank submit a bid?
(1) They’ve won the right to promote the fight as far as the WBC is concerned, but contrary to popular belief, the WBC has about as much actual say in things as I do – if either Fury or Whyte tell Warren to buzz off? There’s not anything anyone can do about it.
(2) Neither Fury or Whyte should hesitate to sign for that amount of money, because for both it’s more than the fight is worth.
(3) Unless Warren intends to stage this fight at O2 or Wembley, then proceeds to promote the hell out of this bout in the UK? He’s overpaid for this bout, and not by a marginal sum.
(4) All this said? Things come together very quickly now, or implode very quickly and the fight doesn’t get made. The purse bid if nothing else is a “**** or get off the pot” move.
wow thats a lot of money……..
could be tough on the promoter(s)
probably a UK stadium venue
hopefully it will be enough time for these guys to get into top shape
The great Whyte hype gets stopped easy.
Fury in 2!
These guys don’t want to fight. This new school of boxing is a joke for 20 million I’ll knock fury out cold
Whyte will be much better than the
hype job Wilder!!
Hes fought much better opposition.
Was hoping Kellie Maloney (formerly Francis Maloney), would win the bid. Just to see how the woman act is holding up.
LOOK THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENS…THEY CALL FURY AND SAY LOOK WE’LL GIVE YOU SAY 15 MILLION TO FIGHT THIS GUY UNDER THE CUFF… WERE GOING TO PUT IN A BIG FAKE BID BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET…. WHAT DO YA SAY TYSON… HE OKAYS IT AND WERE OFF AND RUNNING… WHYTE DOES GET HIS 8 MILLION AND EVERYBODY MAKES MONEY… LOOK IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE BUILDING A BRIDGE PUTTING IN A ROAD OR WHATEVER… THIS IS WHAT WE CALL BUSINESS… PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS… HELL THAT’S THE WAY IT’S DONE ALL OVER THE WORLD… HELL I’VE GOT A FRIEND WHO’S A MILLIONAIRE AND HE TOOK PROSPECTS OUT AND GOT THEM LAID SO HE COULD HAVE THE CONTRACT TO PUT WINDOWS AND DOORS IN THEIR HOUSES… IT’S ADDED TO THE BILL… YOU KNOW DAMN WELL HE AINT GONNA BE TELLING HIS WIFE WHAT HE’S DONE,,,.. SO THERE YA HAVE IT BUSINESS…. AND THIS IS CHIPPERRRRRRRRRRRRR