Tyson Fury Vs. Dillian Whyte on hold as WBC delay mandatory decision
The WBC won’t be ordering the fight between heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte today during their convention in Mexico due to Dillian’s legal arbitration that is still ongoing as it is unknown how soon the legal situation will be taken care of.
WBC mandatory and interim heavyweight champion Dallian Whyte with 28-2, 19 KOs and his eager promoter Eddie Hearn had hoped the World Boxing Council would order the fight with Fury today, but reports suggest it won’t happen.
The World Boxing Council is obviously in a challenging position because if they order Fury to defend against Whyte, there’s a good possibility he will vacate the title and losing Fury as the WBC’s champion would be a massive blow because Whyte is nowhere near as popular.
Fury has disclosed that he wants to fight the winner of the Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk II rematch because thatis where boxing fans’ money and interest lie.
With Fury’s popularity right now, he doesn’t need any title, least of all the WBC strap, to fight the Joshua vs. Usyk 2 winner.
Fury can go back to calling himself the ‘Lineal heavyweight champion,’ and that would be more than good enough for both the casual and the hardcore boxing fans.
The dough that Fury will make fighting the Joshua-Usyk 2 winner is out of this world good with a whooping $100 million at stake.
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For Fury, it will be silly for him to risk that against Whyte, who brings nothing to the table as compared to all that sweet cash he can make fighting Anthony Joshua or Usyk.
In contrast, Fury will likely take a paycut from the loot that he made for his last two fights against Deontay Wilder to face Whyte.
To make this interesting, we got to have a countdown for how much longer Fury owns his WBC title before he vacates his title once the WBC orders the Fury-Whyte fight.
If the WBC does order that fight, there’s an excellent posisbility that Fury will vacate his title rather than agree to give Whyte a 55-45 split.
That’s way more than what Whyte would get against a star like Fury if he were making a simple defense against him, and it’s not worth it for the Gyspy King.
In terms of popularity and what the two fighters bring to the table, you can argue that a 90-10 split in Fury’s favor would make sense.
