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4/23 ESPN+ PPV & BT Sports: Dillian Whyte Vs Tyson Fury (WBC Heavyweight Title)
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FreedMind
DOPAMINE FOR MY BABY!!
Honestly, I'm excited for this shyt.
Yeah, everyone wants to see undisputed take priority, but this isn't a bad matchup. Good fight before the winner inevitably fights the winner of Usyk Joshua.
Yeah, everyone wants to see undisputed take priority, but this isn't a bad matchup. Good fight before the winner inevitably fights the winner of Usyk Joshua.
O³ (O cubed)
No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
I'm not gonna say much. Let's see if Fury actually makes this fight without excuses.
Dillian doesn't play mind games.
Dillian doesn't play mind games.
Bigblackted4
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Why is Boxnation in the title
Not sure but it should be BT Sports PPV.
I AM WE ARE
Banned
Honestly I wanna see fury get ko but I hope Whyte don't get that Wilder treatment chasing it
FreedMind
DOPAMINE FOR MY BABY!!
Whyte is a moron if he passes on the 8mil payday
chosenaledge13
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Yeah, as much as I feel like he's been 100% fukked over by the WBC, it gets to a point where you gotta drop the ego battle and kill em with success. Go take that WBC and Ring belt off of him with NO REMATCH CLAUSE and do what the fukk you want after.
Fury-Whyte: Wembley Stadium Will Be Venue For April 23 Fight If Deal Is Consummated
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Tue Feb 08, 2022, 11:04 AM EST
Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will become the next British heavyweights to headline a boxing show on the hallowed grounds of Wembley Stadium.
BoxingScene.com has learned that Fury’s fight against Dillian Whyte will take place at that famed venue in London if the two sides reach a deal by the February 21 deadline set last week by the WBC. Representatives for Fury, 33, and Whyte, 34, are constructively working toward finalizing contracts for Fury’s mandated defense of his WBC belt against Whyte, a Jamaican-born contender who has long lived in London.
Co-promoters Frank Warren and Bob Arum also considered Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, as the site for Fury-Whyte.
They ultimately chose Wembley Stadium, where enormous crowds in excess of 90,000 attended Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight title fights against Wladimir Klitschko in April 2017 and Alexander Povetkin in September 2018. Joshua also packed Principality Stadium for back-to-back title defenses against Carlos Takam and Joseph Parker in October 2017 and March 2018.
Former WBC champion Frank Bruno previously challenged Tim Witherspoon and Oliver McCall for the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles, respectively, at Wembley Stadium in July 1986 and September 1995. Twenty-three years before Bruno’s first fight there, Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, boxed London’s Henry Cooper at Wembley Stadium in June 1963.
Fighting at Wembley Stadium will mark a career-defining moment for Fury, whose past five fights have taken place in the United States.
The last time the polarizing, popular Fury fought in the United Kingdom, he defeated Italy’s Francesco Pianeta by unanimous decision in a 10-rounder on the Carl Frampton-Luke Jackson undercard in August 2018 at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Frampton’s hometown. The unbeaten WBC champion’s most recent appearance in England came in June 2018, when he launched a comeback from a 2½-year layoff by stopping overmatched Macedonian Sefer Seferi after four rounds on the Terry Flanagan-Maurice Hooker undercard at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, the city Fury considers his hometown.
If Fury fights Whyte, they’ll split a historic winning purse bid of $41,025,000, which Warren submitted January 28.
Whyte wants more than the 80-20 split approved by the WBC last month, but he still would earn at least $7,384,500 for fighting Fury, which would be by far the biggest purse of Whyte’s 11-year pro career. With 10 percent of Warren’s winning bid set aside by the WBC as a win bonus, Fury stands to make $29,538,000 based on the 80 percent to which he is entitled as the defending champion.
An additional $4,102,500 would remain in escrow for whoever wins the 12-round pay-per-view bout between Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) and Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs).
Ain't much of a fight..think Fury runs away with it 2nd half of the fight.