FURY FEELS WHYTE HEAT
Dillian tells Tyson to fight him and not take ‘cowardly’ way out
DILLIANWHYTE has toldTyson Fury to stop being “a coward” and fight him.
Whyte is frustrated by Fury’s refusal to defend his WBC heavyweight title against him, even though the sanctioning body says he must face him by February after DeontayWilder.
‘The Body Snatcher’ has been the WBC’s mandatory challenger for three years and fears Fury could vacate his belt to fight Anthony Joshua.
Whyte, 32, wants to become world champion in the ring and challenged Fury, below, to have the courage to face him.
“If the WBC stripped him or he vacates I wouldn’t have to fight anyone for the title because I’m the interim world champion,” he said. “I would become champion.
“But I don’t want that, I want to fight Tyson Fury because everyone says he’s the best heavyweight to walk the planet.
“Hopefully, he’s going to be a man of his word and fight me and not be a coward and vacate.
“Fury hasn’t behaved honourably towards me at all. One minute he says he wants to fight me and then he says he won’t.
“Fury talks a lot of rubbish. He says whatever he thinks.
He’s someone who never sticks to anything he says. He’s always saying one thing today and then another tomorrow. His mind is like the wind, it changes direction all the time.”
Whyte, whose only professional defeat was at the hands of Joshua, also dismissed the offer from Fury’s promoter Frank Warren to fight his rising star Daniel Dubois. “Frank’s just trying to deviate from the Tyson Fury fight,” said the Brixton fighter. “Why would I want to fight Daniel Dubois when I’m the mandatory challenger for the WBC title?
“Daniel Dubois brings nothing to the table, nothing at all. There’s no reason to fight him.”
Whyte will again put his interim title on the line when he faces former WBA and Olympic champion Alexander Povetkin on Saturday in the final week of Matchroom’s Fight Camp at their Brentwood HQ in Essex.
He is not bothered that the Sky Box Office show, that was originally pencilled in for the Manchester Arena in May, will be behind closed doors. “It won’t affect my motivation or trouble me,” he said.