Fury Vs. Whyte: Pay per view price set at $69.99
U.S boxing fans will need to dig deep by coughing up $69.99 to watch Tyson Fury defend his WBC heavyweight title against Dillian Whyte on April 23rd to watch these two get it on at the Wembley Stadium in London, England.
The price for the Fury-Whyte fight was announced earlier today, and fans have been less than pleased at the cost.
Given that Whyte isn’t helping with the promotion, it’s hard to view this as a PPV-worthy fight, especially when you recall that he was knocked out by 41-year-old Alexander Povetkin a couple of years ago.
American boxing fans wouldn’t mind paying that kind of money if Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) were facing someone that they were interested in seeing like Oleksander Usyk, Anthony Joshua, or Deontay Wilder, but NOT Dillian Whyte.
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What makes things worse is Whyte hasn’t been helping promote the fight, so there’s been very little buzz about the contest. For a PPV fight, Fury vs. Whyte is invisible, and that’s not a good sign.
In hindsight, Fury would have been better off vacating his WBC title and focusing on fighting someone that U.S fans don’t mind paying to see him compete again.
As popular as Fury is now, he doesn’t need the WBC title to validate him in the eyes of fans. He could go back to calling himself the ‘lineal champion’ as he used, and that would be enough for U.S fans.
