Tyson Fury Promoter Frank Warren says he has a replacement on hand so Dillian Whyte pulls out of title fight

By: Sean Crose

Give longtime heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte this – he’s not going to let WBC and linear heavyweight champion Tyson Fury get in his head. As the clock ticked for the Fury-Whyte heavyweight title, which will be played in front of 94,000 people at Wembley Stadium on April 23, Whyte was no longer seen. Fury promoter Frank Warren says Whyte is breaching his contractual obligations by not getting out there in front of the cameras, but there may be a method to Whyte’s pre-fight strategy. Fury is, after all, an absolute master at mind games. Check out some old face-to-face footage he did before his 2015 fight with Wladimir Klitschko if you want to see how a bully works (of course, Fury won the fight) .

Needless to say, Whyte is – for whatever reason – not going the way of Klitschko. Warren, therefore (probably with Fury’s co-promoter Bob Arum) decided to play it safe, in case Whyte had to be quiet rather than mind games or contract disagreements. In other words, substitute Whyte is waiting on the wing to take the call. “The truth of the matter,” Warren said Seconds out, “Is we cover all bases.” It seems unlikely that replacing Whyte would be an optimal situation, but it seems to be safer than sorry.

“Wouldn’t you think,” Warren said, “for an event of this magnitude, about what we’ve sold, that we wouldn’t have included that scenario (of Whyte pulling out)?” With that in mind, it’s unlikely Whyte won’t appear in the biggest fight of his life – the match will also be one of the biggest in British history (a pretty big deal given that Whyte and Fury are both brother). However, Warren is clearly not happy with the Whyte team at the moment.

“We’re paying him $7.5 million and he’s got a $4 million profit,” Warren said. “Of course I am upset. What do we have to say then? We pay warriors to do nothing? The cold and hard truth is that Whyte will have to do a lot to beat Fury, who is currently considered the world’s heaviest heavyweight in a number of rounds. However, Whyte has been waiting for an opportunity like this for years now, so it’s hard to imagine he won’t slip mid-rope at Wembley later this month as unprepared for the battle of his career. me.