Fury Stops Whyte, Same Referee as Whyte vs. Povetkin I, Similar Result Different Night
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
London, UK (April 24th, 2022)– In the end, heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte sold his titular challenger with lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury on trash talk, in vintage Zab Judah style. Fans packed in to see the spectacle, while it last. Fans bought into the pay-per-views, on what was otherwise a basically boring no name card without Fury and Whyte.
The experts predicting a rough outcome. The experts were all correct. The prevailing winds stated Whyte would wild between the fifth and seventh rounds. Whyte, who resembles something between a cross of a British version of Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Dereck Chisora, simply does not have the movement or heart of Frazier.
Speed and heart mattered in the main event on an eight-bout BT Sport card on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Wembley Arena, as Fury, 32-0-1 with 23 knockouts, Morecambe, Lancashire, United Kingdom, cut Whyte, 28-3 with 19 knockouts, Brixton, London, United Kingdom, on the corner of the right eye in round four with a legal punch, and dropped and stopped him with a right uppercut followed by a push in round six.
The ugly fourth-round told the story. Fury, who threw and landed in double digits in punches from round two on, moved well on his feet in top condition, and held when he needed a brief breather. Fury and Whyte became wrestling in clinches, and the bout disintegrated into holds, headlocks, head butts, elbows and rabbit punches. Referee Mark Lyson struggled to maintain control over the ring. However, Lyson, the referee with Whyte
At Matchroom HQ Garden in Brentwood in August 2020 when Alexander Povetkin came off the canvas twice to take Whyte out, knew what Whyte had and did not have.
When Whyte went down and got up at 2:58 of the sixth round, Lyson did not give Whyte the final second benefit of the doubt. Whyte, stumbling and staggering about the ring, had gotten up, but clearly had lost his senses and faculties in a dizzy tizzy, and the bout ended abrubtly on a single authoritative punch of damage. Walk into a Rocky Marciano style fueled power shot of lethal intent from the world heavyweight champion, and good luck trying to get up or continue the bout from that point. No way Jose. In an instant, Whyte’s trash talk was reduced to a gummy bear run over by a jumbo jet.
It is hoped Fury remains interested enough to fight the winner of the rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. Usyk ahs to fight with a clear mind in the face of the current Ukraine military conflict, which can be hard to do. The comebacking ex-champion Victor Postol of Ukraine could not. Usyk holds the WB, WBO, IBF and IBO versions of the heavyweight title now, and must defense himself and his country’s honor. If Joshua wins the rematch, then loses to Fury, he will have gone lost-won-lost-won-lost hot and cold, but again, it all depends which version of Joshua shows up. Both Joshua and Fury defeated the faded Wladimir Klitschko, whose current battles on the battlefield with his brother Vitali are part of the reason Usyk versus Joshua II, money aside, remains such a question mark in the anticipated outcome. Fury’s younger brother of the fighting Furys, 7-0 light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury, won a six rounds decision on the undercard.
Result: Tyson Fury TKO 6 Dillian Whyte, Heavyweights (2:59). Referee: Mark Lyson
Fury retains World Boxing Council and Lineal World Heavyweight title
White cut right eye in round four. Whyte down from finishing right uppercut in round six.
Wembley Arena Wembley Undercard Results
David Adeleye TKO 4 Chris Healey, Heavyweights
Nick Ball TKO 6 Isaac Lowe, Featherweights (1:45) Referee: Victor Loughlin
Ball wins vacant WBC Silver Featherweight title. Lowe down in second, cut right eye third.
Tommy Fury Win 6 Daniel Bocianski, Light Heavyweights. Bocianski down in fifth round.
Karol Itauma Win 4 Michal Ciach, Light Heavyweights
Kurt Walker Win 4 Stefan Nicolae, Super Featherweights
Ekow Essauman Win 12 Darren Tetley, Super Featherweights
Essauman retains International Boxing Federation European, BBBofC British, and Commonwealth British Empire Super Featherweight titles
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