Fury Not Concerned With Whyte's Legal Action: He Won't Get Very Far

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is not concerned with Dillian Whyte's recent decision to initiate a legal action against the World Boxing Council.

Whyte, who holds the WBC interim-title and is currently the mandatory challenger, is looking to enforce the sanctioning body's order which mandates his world title shot by February 2021.

Fury captured the title back in February, when he stopped Deontay Wilder in seven rounds at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

There is a contracted rematch to face Wilder for a third time, which Fury is hoping to have happen by the end of the year.

The trilogy was initially scheduled for July 18, but it was later postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After months of inactivity in the sport, promoters are finally beginning to stage events - although none of these events will involve a live audience.

Because Fury-Wilder requires a live crowd, their respective promoters are shooting for a date in December to stage the fight.

If they fight in December, it will be impossible to turn around and fight Whyte by the end of February.

At the same time, Fury and his promoters have expressed little interest in facing Whyte. They would rather finalize a two-fight agreement to face unified champion Anthony Joshua next year.

Fury believes the ongoing pandemic will provide a solid legal defense for the WBC.

"He won’t get very far with the suing because everything has been put on hold, hasn’t it? It’s like the world has been put on hold, so everything has to move along with the hold back," Fury told Behind The Gloves.

"I was supposed to fight [against Deontay Wilder] in July but that’s not happening now. I’m not going to sue for it because it’s a pandemic and obviously I’ll get nowhere. But I’m sure his lawyers know what they’re doing with it all.

"These fights with Wilder and Joshua and Whyte, they’re all a million miles away anyway. So I’m not even thinking about that too much at the moment, just thinking about staying fit and active. But there’s not much I can do about anything, because at the moment I’m signed to a fight with Deontay Wilder and I know he’s not going to not take the fight. He has to take the fight because it’s the biggest available money for him. So anything can happen in that fight.

"If he knocks me out then there is no rematch clause again, so probably he’ll fight Dillian Whyte or Joshua or whoever. So we can only take one fight at a time, and although I’m very confident in my ability, I’m not Houdini and I can’t see into the future so I can’t say who’s going to fight next and whatever. And as for Dillian Whyte at the moment, they’re all wanting to fight, fight, fight, but at the moment there is no fights. We all know there’s no fights, so it’s not even a possibility even if we wanted to. So it’s not going to happen."