Dillian Whyte vs Jermaine Franklin possible next

He turned down a world title shot in 2019.
For a lot of money. And the chance to avenge that defeat to Joshua. The reason he turned down huge money and a title shot is because he's making 'world title' money for less risk (but still lost to Povetkin).

He's been fighting PPV main event fights for 5 of his last 6 fights.
If he wants PPV money he has to fight decent opposition. That's why he fought guys like Parker, Rivas and Povetkin. For PPV money, with a lot of publicity behind him. He's rich.
Maybe turning down £6 million or £7 million shot at AJ made sense for him.

If he wants to fight Jermaine Franklin, that's fine.
Let's see if they can get him PPV money for that too.

 

Yeah. old Pov over the hill, long years ago " legless" and coming from a draw was good choice on paper to pick up.

Of course you are correct.

While looks that Whyte vs Pov I + Pov II most likely had generated considerably lesser than Usyk vs Bellew fight.
Ppl still are claiming that Usyk isn't a big draw etc.

 

1. Who says its that easy to get a top 15 guy? Wilder,Fury,Joshua,Usyk, Hunter, Joyce all have fights signed.

2. Why should he be the only guy who not get a title fight who has to fight a murderers row?

 

So there is no other good opponent than inactive Franklin who has not fought since 2019 ?

You wanna know who is free to fight ? Hrgovic, Pulev, Ortiz, Yoka, Wallin, even Gassiev.

That question is not for me. It is not fair of course.

 

I was referring to the last five years. Wallin decent? Not from what I've seen of him.
So Wallin,Shwarz Wilder x2, Seferi, Paienttea level guys compared guys massive upgrade in level of opposition in Povetkin x 2, Parker, Chisora x 2, Rivas, Helenius and AJ since the last time Fury fought a quality fighter.

 

Ortiz has never done much to begin with... He's had two cracks at a criminally overhyped champion and lost both times, he shouldn't be anywhere near another title shot.

In some ways it'd be a pisstake to expect Whyte to fight any more eliminators, he's had the **** taken out of him for years because Wilder didn't dare fight him.... At the same time, he's clearly declined a bit during that period, too, so there's not necessarily anything wrong with expecting him to prove himself from a sporting point of view.

 

The whole "Whyte's been hard done by" stuff needs to stop.

He's been backed by huge media promotion and given PPV main event fights. He's been raking in the coin.
He turned down his chance at a world title fight (and chance to avenge his loss to Joshua) over 2 years ago.
He was sparked by Povetkin just two fights ago. Povetkin was coming off a disputable draw against Hunter.
It was promoted as a "FINAL eliminator" but because Whyte lost, they had a rematch clause in place. Disgrace to call it an eliminator.
Parker never got a rematch when he lost a close and controversial decision to Whyte in his "eliminator".
It's a joke.

The idea that Whyte really cares about getting a world title shot is doubtful. He's treated like a world champion by SKY, given his PPV dates and had earned a stack of cash.

 

Yeah, 'he's only faced killers' is a bit of a stretch. I wouldn't classify Mariusz Wach, Dave Allen, Lucas Browne or Malcolm Tann as killers, exactly. Chisora is coming up on a dozen losses now. Joseph Parker seems nice enough. But 'killer' doesn't quite fit. Helenius was stopped by Johann Duhaupas before Whyte fought him and knocked out by Gerald Washington after.

Whyte's fought some solid heavyweights. But he's been treading water for a while now. He needs to step on the gas as much as any of them.

Hrgovic or Joyce were the fights to make right now, because they are most likely to pass him up in the pecking order. Not so much Franklin.

 

Seems to me he wanted an American fight to give him some profile there perhaps for Ruiz next.

 

Delusional. He was stumbled and outlanded in 4, then outlanded in 9. Zhang hurt him in four rounds, dropped him three times, outlanded him in five. Maybe you have something against Zhang, but without the point deducted any result besides UD would have been asinine.

 

1. Outlanding someone doesn't mean you win the round.
2. I have nothing against Zhang but you're obviously biased as **** considering your name.
3. Zhang didn't win that fight. He lost. Almost everyone out there scored the fight for Forrest. And it pretty much says it all that not one single judge scored the fight for Zhang despite scoring three Knockdowns and being the promoted A-side against a journeyman level opponent.
4. If you missed it: Even without the point deduction Zhang would have won by Split Decision.

Zhang got exposed. Live with it. He's a notorious gasser and hates pressure. He's old and not very good at this point. He fought nobody and his resume is weak. He's more or less a fraud. I still think he has some skills but most of his assets are the size and frame, not his boxing skills.

 

Considering my name? Junlong didn’t even fight Forrest, wtf? And a fraud? He’s a two time Olympian and silver medalist, he has never lost. This is a ridiculously unfair thing to say about a not very popular fighter.

 

He's a fraud in the pro ranks. Never fought anyone, incredibly padded record and lost the first step up fight but got a robbery decision. It's a bad joke.

You're obviously biased towards chinese fighters. From a neutral point of view Zhang is just not very good and wasted his prime in fighting bums. He's going nowhere.