By Charles Brun: Dillian’ The Physique Snatcher’ Whyte bought some good news from WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman on Monday with him confirming that the sanctioning physique intends on ordering WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to defend in opposition to Dillian subsequent.
Sulaiman says the WBC has acquired the medical certification on Whyte’s shoulder damage from the British Boxing Board of Management, displaying that he was injured and unable to go forward along with his combat with Otto Wallin on October thirtieth.
The WBC’s determination to order Fury to face Whyte means that the group received’t be forcing Dillian to reschedule his combat with Swedish heavyweight Wallin.
Whyte pulled out of the match instantly two weeks in the past, saying that he had a shoulder damage. Many within the boxing world consider Whyte faked his shoulder damage after studying that the WBC stated he could be subsequent for Fury.
Though Whyte and his promoter Eddie Hearn have repeatedly maintained that he was injured, his determination to not reschedule the combat with Wallin seems fishy within the eyes of the followers.
What’s extra attention-grabbing is that even Whyte is injured, and he’s banging the drum for a title shot in opposition to Fury in early 2022. Unnecessary the say, it’s a horrible approach for a contender to enter a title combat.
As an alternative of sticking to his settlement to combat Wallin, Whyte washed his fingers of the combat and insisted on him preventing Fury subsequent.
Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs) is the WBC interim and obligatory challenger to the unbeaten Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs).
The World Boxing Council beforehand dominated that WBC heavyweight champion Fury had 30 days to aim to arrange a unification combat with IBF/WBA/WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk.
If no deal have been made throughout that one month, Fury would wish to defend in opposition to his WBC obligatory Whyte.
In fact, this doesn’t imply something as a result of Fury can all the time go the Franchise route if he needs to swerve the combat with Whyte or higher but, dump the WBC strap altogether and wait on the winner of the Anthony Joshua vs. Usyk 2 rematch, which is anticipated to happen subsequent March.
“The WBC order was very clear, that the winner of Fury vs. Wilder has one month to attempt to safe the last word unification in opposition to Usyk, who defeated Joshua,” stated WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman to Talk Sport.
“In the event that they’re not able to doing such, then the WBC would go along with a compulsory, which is the interim champion.
“We’ve got acquired from the British Boxing Board of Control the medical certification that Whyte couldn’t combat Wallin due to the damage.
“So we’re going to do what we promised, which is that approach we’re shifting ahead,” stated Sulaiman in regards to the WBC ordering Fury to defend in opposition to interim champion/obligatory Whyte subsequent.
There’s an excessive amount of cash to be made by Fury, 33, in dealing with the winner of the Joshua vs. Usyk II combat, and it’s too dangerous for him to combat anyone, not to mention somebody as determined as Whyte.
Suppose Fury is elevated to Franchise champion or vacates his WBC title. In that case, Whyte will both be made the brand new champion by the World Boxing Council or ordered to face the subsequent highest-ranked obtainable contender. It might be as much as the WBC to determine which path they need to go in.
Except Fury values his WBC title, he ought to vacate the belt and wait on the Joshua vs. Usyk II rematch winner.
It makes zero sense for Fury to take any combat proper now as a result of there’s an excessive amount of cash on the road for him in dealing with the Joshua-Usyk 2 winner.
If Fury vacates his WBC title, Whyte will possible have to combat certainly one of these extremely ranked contenders for the vacant strap:
1. Deontay Wilder
2. Andy Ruiz Jr.
3. Joe Joyce
4. Luis Ortiz
5. Joseph Parker
6. Frank Sanchez
