Dillian Whyte vs. Ebenezer Tetteh

Fifteenth of December in Gibraltar. Ten rounds scheduled at HW. Headlining a card on DAZN.

Both are 36 years old. Both stand tall at 6'4" (Whyte has a 2" advantage in reach). Both have twenty professional knockouts. Both also have only ever lost by way of stoppage. Both are black and bald - or at least shaven pated.

Similarities pretty much end there. For more or less a decade straight the Jamaican-Brixtonian has fought nowt but ranked opposition - proving to be a B+ player in the division who fails against the best (Joshua, nearly shot Povetkin, Fury) and succeeds against the rest (Helenius, Browne, Chisora, Rivas, Wach, fully shot Povektin, Franklin, Hammer). Meanwhile the Ghanaian slugger has mostly padded up his record at home in Accra, getting absolutely whack-a-moled his first time venturing abroad in a KO1 blitz at Daniel Dubois' hands at Royal Albert Hall (licking his wounds on the mother continent and fighting only four times in the more than five years since).

No common opponents.

 

Whyte is openly chasing Dubois for a date in 2025 - guessing that's why Tetteh was selected for his tuneup, so his performance can be used as measuring stick. Fairly ballsy to call your shot when the bar is set at kayo in two minutes flat, though.

 

Of course, if he loses, that's game over for Whyte.