Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte 23rd April 2022

[Master]

Frank Warren has hit out at Eddie Hearn and broadcaster DAZN, telling him to focus on his "app" rather than addressing Tyson Fury's clash with Dillian Whyte.

Warren recently won purse bids for the heavyweight clash between Fury and Whyte, submitting a £31million offer to trump Hearn and DAZN's record-breaking previous bid.

Hearn has worked with Whyte for several years on a fight-by-fight basis and has continued to address questions when asked about the domestic showdown.

His rival promoter has hit out at him for getting "involved with everything" and is focused on dealing with Whyte's lawyers to stage the fight.

“Hearn has his hands full now," Warren told talkSPORT. "He’s got that fight to get on and why does he keep banging on about what we’re doing for?

“Our fight is going to be on BT Box Office, it’s going to be a great fight to watch. Afterwards, they can go and watch all those shows Eddie [Hearn] is putting on his app.

“If he [Hearn] had his way, he’d be involved in everything. He’d have your job as well. What he had going for him is that he put in the highest ever purse bid, he held the record for putting in the highest ever purse bid… for 10 seconds.

“He should be delighted with that and move on. He says more about the fight than I do and I put the winning bit in. We are dealing with Dillian’s lawyer. It’s up to him if he wants to talk, I have no control over him.

"For whatever reason, if he wants to bring Hearn on board, I don’t know why he would, but that’s his choice."

The heavyweight clash will be staged by Warren and his promotional label Queensberry Promotions in the UK securing Fury a return to home soil.

Hearn wanted to stage the fight on new broadcasting platform DAZN who planned to launch a pay-per-view service.

Warren and Hearn have clashed throughout their promotional careers and have struggled to work together to stage bouts.

Whyte has largely remained silent over a clash despite his rival's demands to speak out, which Hearn has explained is largely due to his "disbelief" remaining that a fight will not take place.

But the Matchroom Boxing kingpin has now confirmed a contract has been received and he will continue to "back" his charge if required.

“I don’t envisage many problems," Hearn told talkSPORT. "I’ve got no involvement. I lost the purse bids. I work fight-by-fight with Dillian, he’s a close friend of mine.

“I guess [my involvement is] whatever he wants me to do in the fight. We talk to his team virtually every day, we have done for the entire last two months.

"But Frank won’t really want me involved in the promotion which is no problem, I’ve got enough on my plate if they don’t want me to help in the promotion."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxin...oxing-26183124

[Master]

DILL OR NO DEAL ‘He’s won the Lottery’ – Tyson Fury gives ‘little s***’ Dillian Whyte warning over signing deal for £30m showdown

TYSON FURY wants Dillian Whyte to speak-up, put-up or shut-up over their £30million potential Wembley showdown.

The 33-year-old WBC heavyweight king will face his long-waiting mandatory challenger this spring, as long as the Brixton Body Snatcher returns the contract by February 19.

English football’s home is the frontrunner to host an 80,000 barnbuner but Fury is getting impatient that Whyte, 33, is yet to sign the deal and is refusing to do interviews to help flog the pay-per-views and tickets.

Whyte will earn £6million just for showing up and a potential £9m for winning and Fury - who went to Germany to dethrone Wladimir Klitschko for three world titles in 2015 - says he should count himself lottery-winner lucky.

The giant roared: “I don’t hate Dillian Whyte and he doesn't hate me, I am going to make him a lot of money, more than he could have made in a million lifetimes.

“He should admire me and I have respect for him as my WBC mandatory challenger.


“I think not talking is pathetic, we are here to talk-up and sell one of the biggest fights in British boxing history and he needs to play his part.

“They keep going about the money and percentages but this little s*** is getting eight times more than I got when I beat Wladimir - and I was 20 times more popular than him for that fight, undefeated, mandatory with both the WBO and the WBA, and had won three world title eliminators.

“He would be very sensible to take his money before he loses it. It is like this idiot has won the Euro Lottery.

“And if it is Wembley Stadium, it would be a very special moment for me, very special.”

Fury visited London to meet with the British press to start flogging the mouthwatering bout and - if he’s frustrated with Whyte’s stoic silence - made up for it by taking aim at the rest of the division.

He blames AJ and Whyte for the convoluted stepaside deal to let Fury face WBA, IBF and WBO champ Oleksandr Usyk collapsing over money.

And he insists he will punish them physically for their fiscal fascinations and labels them serpents destined for the bottom of the sea.

He growled: “These men are cowards. Dillian Whyte has been waiting 1200 days for his title shot but was then licking his lips for step-aside money.

“Joshua is a coward too because he wanted that £15m to step aside and then he came back and asked for another £5m. Whyte is a coward but Joshua is a greedy coward.

“I don’t care what they say because Joshua and Hearn are just vipers, snakes in the grass, reptilians.

“I have cost them all that money and I take pride in it as well, thank you very much.

“They know not to cross me anymore, because I am driving this ship and it’s full of sharks out there.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/17627...yte-ultimatum/

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Tyson Fury's promoter Bob Arum believes Dillian Whyte is behaving like 'a damn fool'



Dillian Whyte has been accused by Bob Arum of behaving like ‘a damn fool’ for demanding more money to promote his fight with Tyson Fury.

Fury’s UK-based promoter Frank Warren paid a record £30.6million to win the purse bid – £24.5million of which will go to the Gypsy King – for the fight.

Whyte, 34, will reportedly earn a career-best £6million plus another £4million if he somehow manages to beats Fury for the WBC heavyweight title, despite being a huge underdog.

But the Body Snatcher has so far refused to sign his contract as he wants a bigger slice of the pie that’s currently on offer.

However Arum, who co-promotes Fury with Warren, is apparently fed-up with the latest attempt to try to get more money out of him.

Arum told Warren’s Queensberry Promotions‘ YouTube channel: “He’s trying to get more money. Simple as that. He’s trying to hold us up.

“One thing when you win a purse bid, it says that the fighters will help in ways to promote.

“Well that’s sort of ambiguous. And most fighters, because they’re professional they will promote.

“Now he’s saying, ‘I want extra money to promote, because you’re stuck paying me what the purse bids said which is 7.3 million dollars and I want some more money from you to get out there and promote.'”



Arum continued: “And our position is, well we’re not going to give it to you. Now, if the fight does enormously well, yeah we’ll give you a taste at the backend where everybody has made money.

“But we’re not going to be put in a position where you’re threatening us, that you’re not going to participate in the promotion. If he doesn’t, he’s a damn fool.

“Because again, there’s always tomorrow and even if he loses the fight, which he figures to do, by participating in the promotion he builds his own image and his own career.

“And secondly and even more important, he really needs the exposure from this big fight and his threat is, that he’s not going to avail himself to that exposure.”

Arum also played down Whyte’s chances of beating Fury and becoming world champion but admitted he is a ‘dangerous’ opponent.

He added: “Yeah, it is a dangerous fight, you know that.

“Whyte is a good puncher, he’s very competitive, but I’ve said to everybody that Tyson Fury is the best heavyweight out there, by far and wide.

“That doesn’t mean that he can’t be beat, because any man can be beat, but I don’t think he’ll be beat.

“But is Whyte dangerous? Yeah, but again, so was Wilder. Very, very dangerous, and Fury three times did his business with Wilder.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxi...cid=entnewsntp

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TICK TOCK Tyson Fury says Dillian Whyte has just three days left to sign contract for world heavyweight title showdown

According to Tyson Fury, the window is closing for Dillian Whyte to sign the contract for their WBC heavyweight title fight.

Frank Warren won the purse bids for Queensbury Promotions a few weeks ago with a record bid of around $41 million.

Given the 80/20 split in favour of the champion, that means Whyte stands to make around $8million from the bout.

However, The Body Snatcher has remained quiet since Warren secured the fight and all that’s left to do is sign the contract.

Fury had a message for Whyte on social media on Wednesday morning and it seems as though time is running out.

“Good morning Morecambe Bay! Dillian Whyte, you little sucker. You’ve got three days left b****. Sign the contract p****!”

According to Whyte’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, there’s no reason to believe he won’t be taking this fight.

“Sure, he’s just training,” said Eddie Hearn to MMA Hour when asked if Dillian Whyte will take the fight with Tyson Fury.

“I think there’s a way to deal with Fury.

“I think sometimes going on the quiet side personally [is the way to go]. Do you really want to get into a slagging match with Tyson Fury and lose all that energy? Do your work, do your training and go and knock him out.

“This is a shot that he’s been working for a long time,” said Hearn about Whyte.

“There are no conversations going on between us right now. ‘Oh, should we go in another direction?’ There is no other direction. This is the fight.”

However, on the other side of the spectrum, Fury’s US promoter Bob Arum has suggested that Whyte is not participating in the promotion of the fight because he wants more money.

“He’s trying to get more money, simple as that,” the 90-year-old told the Queensberry Promotions YouTube channel. “He’s trying to hold us up.

“One thing when you win a purse bid, it says that the fighters will help in ways to promote.

“Well that’s sort of ambiguous. And most fighters, because they’re professional, they will promote.

“Now he’s saying, ‘I want extra money to promote, because you’re stuck paying me what the purse bids said which is $7.3million and I want some more money from you to go out there and promote’.

“And our position is, ‘well we’re not going to give it to you’. Now, if the fight does enormously well, yeah we’ll give you a taste at the back end where everybody’s made money.

“But we’re not going to be put in a position where you’re threatening us, to not participate in the promotion. If he doesn’t, he’s a damn fool.

“Because, again, there’s always tomorrow and even if he loses the fight, which he figures to do, by participating in the promotion he builds his own image and his own career.

“And secondly and even more important, he really needs the exposure from this big fight and his threat is that he’s not going to avail himself to that exposure.”

The target for Fury v Whyte is April 23 at Wembley Stadium, it just needs to be signed off.

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1...-fight-boxing/

[Master]

Frank Warren has branded Eddie Hearn a "kid" as the pair's row over Tyson Fury's clash with Dillian Whyte continues.

Fury will defend his belt against Whyte on April 23 after Warren trumped Hearn's purse bid with a £31million offer to stage the clash.

A furious row has continued between the promoters with Hearn now claiming Fury could have issues with gaining a boxing licence in the UK.

Warren has now confirmed the fight will take place and has claimed the only issue will be Whyte not signing the contract.

"The fight is on; all this nonsense about Tyson and the license... what planet are we on here?," Warren told iFL TV.

"People need to pay less attention to the bull**** that is said, it is like some kid not getting his sweets or something or taking his toy from him. Come on please we know where we are with this one.

"The fight is on we are only waiting for one person that is holding up everything at the moment and that is Dillian. If he doesn't sign the contract we will move on.

"Why he keeps saying all this c***, I don't know why he just worries about a fight that he has control over which is AJ's rematch with Usyk. I don't know why he also keeps talking about

Warren and Hearn have been going back-and-forth over a step aside deal involving Anthony Joshua to allow Fury to face Usyk.

However talks collapsed which ensured purse bids to continue as planned for Fury's defence against Whyte.

Hearn heaped blame on Fury for the collapse of talks claiming that the 'Gypsy King' wanted to take an interim fight before any potential clash with Usyk.

But Fury responded by claiming that Joshua demanded more money than the original £15m offer so opted against pursuing the deal.

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Whyte will now face Fury for the title providing he signs the contract before the deadline on Saturday.

The champion has issued a warning to Whyte regarding the deadline on social media as tension continues to rise over the challenger's silence.

However Hearn expects Whyte to sign the deal before the deadline and has confirmed he will only be involved with the promotion if called upon.

Warren has since revealed talks are going exclusively through Whyte's lawyer and continued to hit out at Hearn for his "talk" surrounding the heavyweight clash.

“He wouldn’t win the purse bid, we wouldn’t put any money in," Warren added. "He has no involvement unless we’re told otherwise.

“All the time he says lots of things and to be quite honest, he’s got nothing to do with this fight, it’s all irrelevant.

“The fight is a three-way thing: it’s Queensberry, Top Rank and Tyson Fury, that’s all we care about and that’s where it’s at."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxin...oxing-26254267

[Memphis]

I can't work out if Whyte's radio silence, and Fury's resulting daily Instagram videos are hysterical or pathetic. Then Big John got on the case

What is utterly pathetic is how boxing media outlets will lap up these 10 second video clips of Fury calling someone or another a dosser for the 10,000th time and regurgitate it as 'content'. Fucking shambles. I hate them all.

I hope Dillian signs. I hope he stays silent.

He'll be given no chance. I think he's got a better one than that.

[TIC]

dillian has finally signed. fight is set for april twenty third. easy knockout for tyson