Fury/Whyte Split confirmed

I just clocked Hearn saying he doesn't expect the purse pid to go ahead tomorrow. Make of that what you will.

 

Hearn said as much in his most recent IFL interview.

 

I didn't know the WBC were responsible to make up the difference in purse if Whyte wins the appeal.

No way this purse bid goes ahead when the WBC could lose and end up having to cover whatever extra Whyte may get on appeal.

 

I'm not sure Dillian Whyte wants to fight anyone at all again, for anything less than a massive retirement cheque.

Seems like a guy who has decided he has one fight left, and he wants that HUGE payday, because he knows (whether it is Fury or AJ or anyone half-decent or a 40 year old has-been) he might get his 'big time' career ended in an instant.

He hasn't fought since last March, was Ko'd badly in the fight before that, and now looks like he's heading firmly down the road of appealing and delaying.

 

So are purse bids happening today or what?

 

That's what I'd like to know as well.

 

Delayed again:

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Fight ain't happening.

 

If it means we get Fury vs Usyk and then Joshua vs Winner then great.

I'd interested to see Usyk vs Joshua 2, but I'm more interested in an undisputed fight and one which should be fascinating.

 

Not even sure we'll get that either. They're conning us.. Again.

 

Zzz.

Wake me up when Tyson doesn't have a problem defending the belts like a proper champion.

He is boring me now.

 

Surely you can see that Fury vs Usyk is a better fight and better for the division? And I say that as someone who was quite excited by the prospect of Fury vs Whyte

 

50 pages in, and you're still putting all the blame on Tyson Fury, regarding the Whyte fight.

It's funny, because all Whyte has to do is stop messing around and agree to the fight, publicly accept 20% or openly negotiate with Arum for a realistic amount, putting the ball in Fury's court .... but Whyte is arguing over money, looking for appeals and delays, arguing with the WBC, etc.
If Whyte showed he wanted the fight, THEN we could judge Fury on what Fury does next.
At the moment, ALL SIDES seem to agree that Whyte's demands and disputes with the WBC are the main immediate cause of the fight not happening. Eddie Hearn acknowledges this.

Why put all the blame on Fury? Why not acknowledge that Whyte's causing a large part of the problem too?

 

If Whyte shows he wants the fight, then maybe Fury will punk out and vacate his belt, or go into depression, or 'retire'. or whatever you guys say his character is.
But maybe he won't.
At the moment, it's Whyte who is holding the thing up, it's Whyte who is preventing it moving forward. Everybody acknowledges this, apart from some oddballs on this forum who haven't even the patience to wait before they blame Fury for everything.

 

Because when Tyson beat Wlad it was the same nonsense. Let's not act like he's a fighting man...