Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte | BT PPV - 23 April 2022

[Twinkle Toes]

It'll be interesting to see where Fury go's after his next fight.

I don't see the Warren/Arum link continuing, not now Arum has his boy Shalom in that exclusive deal with Sky. It's Arum's ticket to Sky PPV which is what's he been after for a long time.

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One more step taken

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[garethhop]

Looks like this will be a shared BT/SKY PPV.

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Looks like this will be a shared BT/SKY PPV.

Why? What's the need for that?

[garethhop]

Maximises the number of people who will watch the fight, limits the risk to BT as well in terms of making a loss on the fight.

A lot going on in the Boxing world right now..........

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Hearn On Dillian Whyte’s “Silence” Ahead Of Fury Fight: “There Is No Fight Yet; They’ve Got To Pay The Deposit And Send Us A Contract”

Eddie Hearn, speaking with IFL TV, explained his own silence and Dillian Whyte’s silence ahead of the Tyson Fury fight. As fans know, Hearn was unable to secure the fight last Friday evening, losing the purse bids battle to allegedly. Since then, Hearn has had very little to say about the fight, while Whyte has all but vanished, saying nothing about the fight at all. Plenty of fans feel this is odd and speculation has mounted since, with people asking if this fight will actually happen or not?

Hearn has tried to clear things up:

“There is no fight yet; they’ve got to pay the deposit [on the $41 million bid Warren secured the fight with] and send us a contract,” Hearn said. “Once that contract is signed and everything’s agreed, on we go. So there’s no conspiracy here, we’re just going through the process. I don’t believe…… in my heart of hearts, I don’t know whether Tyson Fury takes this fight. That’s honestly what I believe. Because all the stuff we went through around the Usyk fight – ‘he’d do this, he’d do that.’ You see one thing, but behind the scenes….. I think Dillian Whyte can win the fight [with Fury], let’s do it. He’s just waiting on the contract. He doesn’t believe that Tyson Fury will fight him. He don’t believe anything that they say. So I guess he’s thinking, ‘until I get a contract, until everyone’s signed, until I get a date, until the money’s paid, I don’t believe it.’ But we’ll see.”

Hearn added how Whyte very much wants the fight and that he’s “ready” and has been “training non-stop.” So this is where we are: Whyte will not be convinced the fight is a go until he gets a contract and everyone has signed. What’s the hold up, fans may ask. Good question. It’s been a week since Warren won the purse bid, so why hasn’t a written contract been sent out to Whyte by now?

All we can do on this one is wait and see what happens. As Hearn said, “we’ll see.”

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Wembley Stadium is the frontrunner now..

[maverick23]

Looks like this will be a shared BT/SKY PPV.

What makes you think that?

It’d certainly help maximise the potential income but surely BT won’t be too pleased as I would have thought the majority of people who have the option would pick Sky as that’s the more familiar PPV provider.

[garethhop]

Looks like this will be a shared BT/SKY PPV.

What makes you think that?

It’d certainly help maximise the potential income but surely BT won’t be too pleased as I would have thought the majority of people who have the option would pick Sky as that’s the more familiar PPV provider.

Adam Catterall and the lad off IFL basically confirmed it.

I think all parties will be pleased.

[garethhop]

Wembley Stadium is the frontrunner now..

You absolutely sure it's not the Cardiff City stadium?

[595179]

Wembley Stadium is the frontrunner now..

It's too small.

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BOXXER's Shalom Details His Role in Fury vs. Whyte Negotiations

If Dillian Whyte finally gets the heavyweight title shot he is looking for against compatriot and WBC titlist Tyson Fury, it will be in no small part thanks to the efforts of a relatively unknown 27-year-old boxing promoter from England.

Ben Shalom, the CEO and founder of Boxxer, an upstart British promotional company that has exclusive ties with broadcaster Sky Sports, played go-between for Whyte’s team in their negotiations with Fury’s team, which consists of Bob Arum of Top Rank Inc. and allegedly of Queensberry Promotions. The relationship between the two sides for the fighters was so frayed, according to Shalom, that the tenderfoot was brought in as the chief liaison. Whyte, the mandatory for Fury, had previously rejected Team Fury’s initial offer, leading to a stalemate, as he was unhappy with the purse.

While Shalom may not have the promotional bonafides of Arum or Warren, his inexperience, in this case, was pivotal for getting the sides to communicate leading up to the purse bid on Jan. 28.

“Myself and Dillian and Dillian’s team, we get on,” Shalom told BBC’s 5 Live Boxing. “We trust each other type of thing. They wanted a little support on that fight. I wanted to help out where I could. Obviously I don’t have any sort of animosity with the Warrens and I’m very close with Top Rank. I think Sky can play a big part in the fight as well. It made sense that I could help, where I could, once the step aside fell apart. It was then time to negotiate and see what was the best deal we could possibly get for Dillian.”

Shalom has close ties with the decision makers at Top Rank, as Top Rank, like Shalom’s Boxxer, provides Sky with boxing content.

“I talk to Top Rank everyday,” Shalom said. “We’ve obviously got the Josh Taylor fight [against Jack Catterall on Feb. 26] coming up. I’ve got a very close relationship with [Top Rank president] Todd [duBoef] and [general counsel] Jeremy [Koegel] and the guys at Top Rank.

“Why I’m helpful is that I don’t have any enemies and I get on with the other promoters. It’s as simple as that. Obviously there was a bit of standoff between Dillian’s camp and Top Rank, and obviously Queensberry wanted to get the fight done as well. I was there to help relationships between the parties and get the best deal that we could for Dillian.”

Shalom mentioned that Whyte was not represented by his promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, in these particular discussions, as Hearn was committed to representing his other heavyweight charge, Anthony Joshua, who was reported to have been mulling a possible step aside that would have allowed Fury to bypass Whyte to face WBO, WBA, IBF heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) for the undisputed championship.

In the end, there was no step aside, and Warren’s Queensberry won the purse bid with a record offer of $41,025,000 against Hearn’s $32,222,222. Ten percent of the winning bid will be set aside as a bonus for the victor. The 33-year-old Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs), the champion, will be entitled to $29,538,000; the 34-year-old Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs) stands to earn $7,384,500. The remaining $4,102,500, to be held in an escrow account, will go to the winner.

Regardless of the entity in charge of putting on the event, Shalom believes the only thing that matters is that Whyte will be getting a career payday, one that makes up for the 80-20 purse split in favor of Fury.

“I’m just really, really glad to be honest, because I didn’t think the splits were fair,” Shalom said. “So I’m really glad the purse is big enough that it’s going to see Dillian get paid very well and obviously he’s got that chance for the 10% going to the winner as well.

“In the end all is well that ended well. I think it’s the fight that should’ve happened. I wouldn’t have liked to see a step aside, personally.”

The WBC has given representatives of Fury and White until Feb. 21 to submit signed contracts for the bout.

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Hearn says Whyte has received the contract.

[gregregegg]

Sky making moves on whyte….

If sky can keep AJ, and get whyte that’s a huge dint in uk dazn.

[margaret thatcher]

shaloomm is a proven massive bullsh!tter, anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt

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Fury-Whyte: Wembley Stadium Will Be Venue For April 23 Fight If Deal Is Consummated

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will become the next British heavyweights to headline a boxing show on the hallowed grounds of Wembley Stadium.

Boxing Scene has learned that Fury’s fight against Dillian Whyte will take place at that famed venue in London if the two sides reach a deal by the February 21 deadline set last week by the WBC. Representatives for Fury, 33, and Whyte, 34, are constructively working toward finalizing contracts for Fury’s mandated defense of his WBC belt against Whyte, a Jamaican-born contender who has long lived in London.

Co-promoters allegedly and Bob Arum also considered Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, as the site for Fury-Whyte.

They ultimately chose Wembley Stadium, where enormous crowds in excess of 90,000 attended Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight title fights against Wladimir Klitschko in April 2017 and Alexander Povetkin in September 2018. Joshua also packed Principality Stadium for back-to-back title defenses against Carlos Takam and Joseph Parker in October 2017 and March 2018.

Former WBC champion Frank Bruno previously challenged Tim Witherspoon and Oliver McCall for the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles, respectively, at Wembley Stadium in July 1986 and September 1995. Twenty-three years before Bruno’s first fight there, Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, boxed London’s Henry Cooper at Wembley Stadium in June 1963.

Fighting at Wembley Stadium will mark a career-defining moment for Fury, whose past five fights have taken place in the United States.

The last time the polarizing, popular Fury fought in the United Kingdom, he defeated Italy’s Francesco Pianeta by unanimous decision in a 10-rounder on the Carl Frampton-Luke Jackson undercard in August 2018 at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Frampton’s hometown. The unbeaten WBC champion’s most recent appearance in England came in June 2018, when he launched a comeback from a 2½-year layoff by stopping overmatched Macedonian Sefer Seferi after four rounds on the Terry Flanagan-Maurice Hooker undercard at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, the city Fury considers his hometown.

If Fury fights Whyte, they’ll split a historic winning purse bid of $41,025,000, which Warren submitted January 28.

Whyte wants more than the 80-20 split approved by the WBC last month, but he still would earn at least $7,384,500 for fighting Fury, which would be by far the biggest purse of Whyte’s 11-year pro career. With 10 percent of Warren’s winning bid set aside by the WBC as a win bonus, Fury stands to make $29,538,000 based on the 80 percent to which he is entitled as the defending champion.

An additional $4,102,500 would remain in escrow for whoever wins the 12-round pay-per-view bout between Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) and Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs).

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[funso banjo baby]

My main hope now is for a decent undercard of hw action.
But I'm not holding my breath

[jameswilson]

My main hope now is for a decent undercard of hw action.
But I'm not holding my breath

They have to recoup tens of millions. I doubt they’ll be paying millions in purses on the undercard on top of the main event purses.

[maverick23]

This will really impact the PPV numbers in the US for Fury/Whyte. Won’t have any impact on the U.K. numbers though.

[daz74]

Sky making moves on whyte….

If sky can keep AJ, and get whyte that’s a huge dint in uk dazn.

Shalom couldn’t get the backing to put in a bid for Whyte/Fury, I quite liked the novelty of the narrative saying he’s a promoter that stays in the background and lets the fighters do the talking. But now he’s doing the rounds runnin his mouth, i’m beginning to have my doubts about him ….

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Would Whyte be this quiet if he had gotten his shot at Wilder?

[jimmystone]

Would Whyte be this quiet if he had gotten his shot at Wilder?

Unless he's on a share of PPV sales he'll fulfill contractual obligations (once he's signed it) and no more. No point him bumping heads and flapping gums with Fury otherwise.

[jameswilson]

Could end up being a bit like the initial O’Hara Davies buildup with Josh Taylor. O’Hara was guaranteed a big purse as I recall it. I Remember the face off where Taylor was being really confrontational and Davies just does the face off and then waves and goes ‘bye Josh! Have a good day!’