When he signed for Matchroom he was thought of as an unknown quantity, and little more was expected from him than a grudge match with Anthony Joshua. AJ was expected to blast him out whilst looking spectacular, and although he did get the stoppage, he did get rocked by Dillian early on. Since then Dillian has fought and beat a decent level of opposition and positioned himself well in the rankings of several of the alphabet orgs. How he hasn't been installed as the WBC mandatory, only Haymon and Sulamain know! He also only just missed out on the AJ rematch, and is now looking for another high profile fight in the interim.
Top wins
Lucas Browne
Dereck Chisora x2
Robert Helenius
Joseph Parker
Next fight shortlist
Manuel Charr
Michael Hunter/Adam Kownacki?
Agit Kabayel
Luis Ortiz
Alexander Povetkin
Probably this is correct. If you wanted you could make a case for Whyte ahead of Willder, but what you did there looks pretty good to me.
I think there are 3 or 4 good prospects whose time is 12 - 24 months away too.
Joyce (maybe sooner), Ajagba and Dubois will all be a handful for the others. Miller is decent too, but will get called a bum when Joshua destroys him.
Of course Wilders fanboys and AJ haters will.
Awful.
Helenius had 4 days training for the whyte fight. He basically lay on the ropes for 8 rounds completely gassed, and whyte still had no idea how to hit him.
He struggled horribly with chisora (9 losses).
He won the lottery against parker, that was the only reason that fight was close. And whyte still nearly died at the end of that fight.
Anyone with Lucas Browne as the best win, isn't a good boxer. Especially old fat 40 year old Browne who is heavy under dog against Dave Allen.
I have no idea why he is even in top 10.
Whyte gets exposed again in his next fight against any top 10 guy
Top 5 HW but only the top 3 matter.
The likes of Parker/Whyte/Ortiz/Chisora etc all seem to be able to beat each other on any given day.
I had Chisora winning the first Whyte fight, and the the 2nd was just as close until the stoppage. Parker was gassed in the their fight, but almost got the stoppage over Whyte.
Whyte is in enjoyable fights and is a good watch for entertainment value, not so much technically. But not many are.
is #4 at this point, as follows, AJ, Fury, Wilder, Whyte....
Probably this is correct. If you wanted you could make a case for Whyte ahead of Willder, but what you did there looks pretty good to me.
I think there are 3 or 4 good prospects whose time is 12 - 24 months away too.
Joyce (maybe sooner), Ajagba and Dubois will all be a handful for the others. Miller is decent too, but will get called a bum when Joshua destroys him.
Wilderettes banging on about Ortiz.
What am i missing?
Nothing, Ortiz resume is trash but he's highly ranked and Whyte need a top opponent. This is the best fight to be made outside of the belt holders.
hes managed to build a brand for himself somehow and make a good bit of money, i kinda view him like bellew in that regard, hes lucky hes based in the uk too
LOL i just checked wiki and dillion has an irish grandfather called, wait for it, paddy whyte hehe ^^
Top 10 for sure, close to the top 5. He had a solid resume but I wouldn't call him elite. I think he got very fortunate to hold on in the Parker fight and I would pick Parker to beat him in a rematch.
The HW division is garbage and thin, so from his record, he's clearly #4 HW. I don't get the hate for Whyte, but my guess is that it's mostly from Joshua fanbois
When he signed for Matchroom he was thought of as an unknown quantity, and little more was expected from him than a grudge match with Anthony Joshua. AJ was expected to blast him out whilst looking spectacular, and although he did get the stoppage, he did get rocked by Dillian early on. Since then Dillian has fought and beat a decent level of opposition and positioned himself well in the rankings of several of the alphabet orgs. How he hasn't been installed as the WBC mandatory, only Haymon and Sulamain know! He also only just missed out on the AJ rematch, and is now looking for another high profile fight in the interim.
Top wins
Lucas Browne
Dereck Chisora x2
Robert Helenius
Joseph Parker
Next fight shortlist
Manuel Charr
Michael Hunter/Adam Kownacki?
Agit Kabayel
Luis Ortiz
Alexander Povetkin
He's much better than most people give him credit for.
Better than Wilder, who has now been exposed after his poor performance vs an old Cuban and a loss to Fury.
Whyte is #3 after Joshua and Fury
The Shawn Porter of the big men.
In that he’s worth supporting because he’ll actually be involved in top level fights more regularly than the others. Both because he takes the risks and because the others see him as beatable.
I also just like him. He seems like a good guy.
Unfortunately Ortiz is busy fighting nobodies like Kauffman and Hammer.
That is true, Ortiz is an old duck who blame everybody else, he made a career out of blaming everybody else for ducking him.
lost to a shot delboy in their first fight and got a gift, got a gift W over Parker. beat Helenius on 11 days notice. KO'd a fat Browne on anti-depressants.
to be fair he has improved since then, all in all hes a solid top 20/25 HW.
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