Dillian Whyte wants more money

Well it's not exactly a difficult thing to sign. It's his promotion and he gets 82% if he wins and 72% if he loses.

What a crock of shite.
28% if he wins
18% if he loses

Favourable my arse

 

I really wouldn't be trusting anything either side says as they're prone to talking bollocks...
I find it funny that everyone jumps to a conclusion every time a Tweet comes out pointing the finger.
I find people jump on things when it confirms there own bias. that clearly seems to happen when it's against someone like Whyte and this is a good example. I wouldn't believe anything from Arum or Hearn who's very job is to manage public perception and most of you fall for it every single time.
When will people learn?
Both sides are playing games and if you haven't worked it out yet then you should simply ignore all of it. until they're in the ring.

 

I am also guilty of this. Both sides are trying to control the narrative. But it’s getting ridiculous on here

The narrative of the machine the last few months is that Fury is the big star who brings in all the eye-balls and money, and Whyte is a nobody who should be grateful for whatever scraps off the table he is given. To the point that Arum petitioned the WBC to go outside of their guidelines to give Fury a more favourable split of 80-20.

According to this board for the last 2 to 3 months, Whyte was in the who needs you crowd, and then that he was lucky to get 20%. Now before a contract is even signed, everyone is up in arms that Whyte isn’t all over social media promoting the fight. You couldn’t make it up

 

What's that sound? Just Dillian turning his trunks into a Hershey factory.

 

Why are you so focused on the percentages. Would you rather have 50 percent of 500k, or 20 percent of 20 million?

Whyte is getting his biggest pay day ever... he is getting the chance to win a heavyweight title, if he does win, he will double his next biggest pay day. I am not sure why people think Whyte, who is a far lesser name, has no belt, should be getting anywhere near the same percentages as Fury.

Let me guess, you think anyone fighting Canelo, should get 40 percent as well?

 

Well, you guess wrong.

I am focussed on percentages, because there was a certain expectation within the guidelines, which was 30% minimum for a mandatory title challenger. Split should have fallen anywhere between 50-50 and 70-30. I have no issue with Fury, and I hope he wins. Arum and Warren will do their best to get the best deal for their side of things, but a lot of people are being very one-eyed in their views on Whyte.

My issue is with the WBC screwing over a mandatory challenger who has spent his career, so far, paying sanctioning fees and fighting for their belts. Contrast to their new champion who spent the majority of his career fighting on the WBO ladder. An 80-20 split is outrageous given the circumstances surrounding the pair.

Regarding Canelo, I think Canelo should fight for whatever he thinks he can reasonably make, but if a mandatory challenger wants to pursue the minimum split that is within a sanctioning bodies guidelines, then Canelo should have to either pay that rate or drop the title. Same goes for any champion. If you let fighters buy every advantage then the sport is corrupted (well it already is, but that's besides the point here).
And will Whyte double his next pay day if he wins? Really? What guarantee does he have? The WBC have already shown that they can't be trusted to follow their own rules when it comes to Whyte. And you seem to suggest that fighters like Canelo should always get over 50%, so...

What people are forgetting is this is also Fury's highest ever pay day. Whilst I don't and have never expected them to give Whyte 45%, let's say they gave him a flat 30% (which is the minimum he could have expected from the WBC if they had treated him fairly)...
Likely the fight would get made, and Fury would still get a massive pay day for what will probably be a defence he is expected to win easily.

Or they don't. Potentially Whyte doesn't sign. Neither man gets paid. And then Whyte waits for arbitration (but that is for him and his advisors to decide). Which from my understanding is against the WBC, and has nothing to do with Fury.
Or maybe Whyte signs by this deadline and potentially is silent until arbitration is concluded anyway. Who knows...

At the end of the day, I assume everyone wants to eventually get to the undisputed fight, but Fury's side have never seemed in much of a hurry to get to that fight.

 

If we hadn't listened to Whyte for the last 5 years moan non stop about how he should have a title challenge people would be more forgiving.

The fact of the matter is he turned down a title shot with AJ because he said the money wasn't right and now he's complaining that $8 million isn't enough for the title fight with Fury.

At some point Dillian needs to realise that he's the challenger and things are not all going to go your way. If he gets in there and beats Fury, he gets $12 million and his next fight can be the undisputed for like three times more money...

 

I don’t even like Whyte! Though it makes me laugh his silence has got Team Fury spooked! Did it occur to you that he does not have to dance to their tune.

 

What agenda is that? I ask because it’s laughable. Think Whyte is winning the mental game.

 

His pay per view numbers indicate he brings some real value in this fight so he should get more but the WBC are ****ing him over again.

 

Dont be suprised if Shyte pulls out.

 

If Whyte still hasn't signed by the end of this week, surelt you think it's reasonable to ask some serious questions?

 

Well I would say boxing is a young man's game. I imagine 28/29 year old Whyte with many years ahead of him would be more amenable to 20%, 33/34 year old Whyte expects to get paid in the here and now based on the guidelines he has spent the majority of his career operating under. Pretty normal behaviour.

Um...is it a matter of fact? Is it really? From what I recall from interviews it was widely accepted that Whyte was ready to sign for the money offered to fight at Wembley, but Joshua inserted a one way rematch clause whereby Whyte still wouldn't get the bigger split even as champion...
You should be against that, given you are promoting the idea that if Whyte wins he gets to make even more money etc. Etc.

As for this idea Whyte gets to fight for undisputed? Does he really? Now I could be wrong on this, but I have heard Sulaiman say Fury could make the undisputed fight with Joshua. Then the winner of Wilder v Fury could make the undisputed fight. I don't think I've heard him mentioned Whyte in connection with any of it. Call me cynical, but I expect if Whyte upsets Fury, Sulaiman will spring a mandatory defence on him, just like when Stiverne wanted to fight Klitschko for undisputed, and the WBC forced him to defend against Wilder...

He would be a fool to put his faith in the WBC suddenly doing right by him

 

You are clutching at a lot of reasons to try and defend Whyte there. The fact that Whyte is 33/34 is even more reason for him to stop pissing about and just get on with signing the deal...

 

I make Whyte right. They wanted to claim rules when it came to 20% so year Whyte should tell them he is giving them nothing in promotions.

Arum and Co can't have it both ways. Either you want proper rules or rules that allow ridiculous ambiguity.