Even Fury, after defending his belt in the spring, predicted that Whyte will be champion one day, and called him “as strong as a bull”. “I definitely want to become heavyweight champion of the world and I’d love to get the opportunity to avenge my two losses ,” he said this week.
Heavyweight politics robbed him of his moment in the sun for years, but he remains in the top handful of contenders. The long-awaited title shot, so many years in the making, was over.Īt 34, it is difficult to see how such a chance will come again, though Whyte is refusing to concede total defeat. For all his talk of an “illegal” knockout, alleging there was a push in the extended arm that nudged him to the canvas, he had not been mobile enough and had Fury not ended it then and there, he would probably have continued to be danced around. Whyte never found his reach, so his power was effectively null and void.
The trouble was, when the night came, Fury ended up doing both. Let Fury do the entertaining, while he would stick to boxing. That was why he would not go above and beyond to promote a fight which he knew sold itself. On that occasion, Whyte was unhappy with the purse split, still over £5m but considerably shy of the WBC champion’s.
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