Any details/rumours of Fury v Whyte undercard?

Oh please kill me.

 

I’ll be the first to admit I have literally never heard of any fighter on the undercard with the exception of Lowe.

We all knew it was going to be a poor undercard but that’s leisure centre type stuff.

 

There's no competition for a Joshua card so they have tuckloads of money to fill up the undercard

Frank paid £40,000,000 for one fight. If he's had to do that you can't expect an undercard.

Hearn would have done the same

 

I have no interest in going to bat for a promoter, but your excuse just doesn't wash.

We have evidence of what Hearn would have done with a fight of a similar magnitude, we can just look at the undercard for Joshua v Klitschko which had a combined purse of 30m (Fury v Whyte = 31m), and then compare. Whilst it wasn't great, it included former world titlists and olympic medalists. Here we are getting friends and family of team Fury.

Facts are Warren won the purse bid, and is now short changing fans on the undercard. Why should we, as fans, care about Warren's finances. I pay my money, and I expect some level of value.

To be honest, given the main event is being shown at 06:00/07:00am where I am, I ain't paying full whack when that undercard won't get me out of bed.

 

Yes most the matchroom stadium undercards are not their best but it's still so much stronger than this blandness

 

I think they vastly overrated Tommy Fury’s pulling power. I think they lazily assume that people are interested in his boxing career. In reality he’s nowhere near as interesting or clever as Jake Paul so there’ll be nowhere near the interest.

Really poor card. I am looking forward to the main event though.

 

Hopefully I can get my hands on some tickets later on this day. If not, then I'll just get pissed and give the undercard a miss.

 

Got the personality of a goldfish. Limited boxing ability and not many teenage girls who watch love island tune in to boxing

 

Yeah you probably have more boxing fans watching Love Island than the other way round.

 

A bit harsh mate.

You are doing Goldfish a dis-service here.

 

I think they'll be trying everything to get Jake Paul over and in the crowd. A bit sad really that it's come to that, but it's the sort of thing they'll have to try if interest is flagging.

Luckily the main event sells itself to an extent, but the undercard is very poor.

 

If only the boxing channels would actually grill Warren on the state of this undercard.

 

I would be surprised given Paul is promoting Serrano vs Taylor the next week.

Its a great main event. I would have even given credit if there was one more name as co-main. Something like Yarde vs Badou Jack or Andre Dirrell would have been intriguing. I dont mind the Cacace or Lowe fights but the Fury, Ituama and Adeleye fights should be much better. Granted they are prospects but Adeleye could be fighting Mark Bennet, Richard Lartey or the Sokolowski rematch. Ituama has an extensive amateur background and has looked really solid so far against fighters with a combined record of 40-245. Could he not go in against Liam Conroy or Timo Laine. Fury i get is ultra limited then get some kind of circus fight for him like the jake paul fight. He could have fought someone like Paul Daley the MMA fighter or even wheel Tyron Woodley out to try and build a jake paul fight

 

Jake Paul is also the better boxer lol.

 

You have incorrect information and the comparison is not valid

Joshua vs Klit purse was £20mil split between them

Fury Vs Whyte is £31mil split between them

Not even remotely close to begin making a comparison

But if you want to go ahead and compare the undercards, you have to bear in mind in mind Eddie hearn had an excess £11million left over to create his undercard. With that in mind, Hearns undercard was outrageously bad