Dillian Whyte Fires Back At ‘Desperate For A Payday’ Charles Martin

Dillian Whyte wasn’t too bothered by Charles Martin’s recent callout of him.

Martin recently expressed his desire to show the real version of himself in a rematch with Anthony Joshua. He added he felt he could get the second fight by beating Whyte who he viewed as an easy fight.

“It’s the only reason I’m still fighting,” Martin said. “Knocking out Dillian Whyte would put me one step closer to Joshua.

“Fury vs Wilder III is happening and then maybe a couple of fights between that winner and Joshua, so while I’m waiting I want to fight the best available, and I want to welcome Dillian Whyte to the United States with another knockout loss. Whyte is an easy fight. He takes too many clean punches.”

To that, Whyte responded with plenty of heat:

“It sounds like Charles Martin is up to his old tricks and is desperate for a payday to keep him going,” Whyte told Sky Sports. “Nothing he says worries me in the slightest. Ravings of a deluded fool. Actually, I think even the real Prince Charles would knock him out.

“Look, he’s an okay fighter, he’s better than the one that showed up against Joshua, but he’s not a guy where you sit there and think, ‘wow, Charles Martin wants to fight me’. He’s a useless bum really. Now I’m in a good position and now I’ve got my title, and now I’m probably the biggest money fight he can get. Listen, this is heavyweight boxing. If he puts himself in a good position and it makes sense, but if I fight him and knock him out in a few rounds, people are going to say, ‘Well Joshua knocked him out in two rounds’.

“He’s embarrassed himself, so it makes it hard to make a case to fight him, because if you beat him in three rounds or four rounds, people are going to say, ‘Well Joshua beat him in two rounds’. Same way if I beat him in a round. ‘Well, he never recovered from the beating Joshua gave him’. He’s damaged goods just like that other waste of space Dominic Breazeale.”

Whyte, meanwhile, is targeting a different opponent in unbeaten contender Jermaine Franklin.

“Jermaine Franklin is in the running,” Whyte added. “There are a few other guys in the running as well, so we’re just waiting to see what is going on.”