Tyson Fury Unlikely To Fight Dillian Whyte Next As Brit Has Eyes On Non-Title Bout

Tyson Fury may not be boxing Dillian Whyte next despite being ordered to by the WBC.

Fury and Whyte’s team have been in talks to box in March in the UK in what would be a massive homecoming fight for Fury. However, despite being made mandatory by the WBC, Whyte and the governing body are in arbitration and the ruling is not expected until March so Frank Warren has decided Fury will likely fight in a non-title bout.

“One of our March shows, I’m pretty confident, will feature Tyson Fury,” Warren told iFL TV today (via Mirror). “But he won’t be defending his WBC title. There’s a problem there, not of our making or his making, the WBC and Dillian Whyte are in arbitration and that hearing is not set to be heard until March.

“We can’t negotiate, whatever nonsense Eddie Hearn [Whyte’s promoter] says about negotiating, when the WBC haven’t said what the splits are,” Warren continued about Fury-Whyte. “In his mind, he thinks he’s getting 45 per cent, in our mind it’s 20 per cent, based upon their previous purses lodged under WBC regulations. And they won’t determine those percentages until arbitration and until that happens, we can’t negotiate and that doesn’t mean you could just do the fight in April.”

According to Warren, the process of making a big heavyweight title fight takes months. So, if the ruling is not done until March the fight likely won’t happen until May or June and Tyson Fury wants to be active so he will fight but with no title on the line.

“We’ve got to negotiate, book a venue and if we can’t negotiate then who wins the purse bid has to do that,” Warren continued about Fury. “That wouldn’t go on until June so Tyson will fight, but not for the WBC title. We’re innocent parties in this, it’s not our thing it’s a legal dispute between the WBC and Dillian Whyte which is being settle by an agreed arbitration.

“Tyson can’t sit around and wait for that to happen, he’s going to fight and defend his Ring Magazine belt, we’ll see, but he will fight sometime in March,” Warren continued about Fury. “I’ve been talking to Bob Arum about that and Tyson and that’s the direction we’re looking to go in.”

With Tyson Fury not having to defend his belt, he could face anyone and one name that has been thrown out is Andy Ruiz Jr., who of course, shocked the world by knocking out Anthony Joshua. Regardless, it appears Fury-Whyte will not be next.

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