Dillian Whyte is ducking Charles Martin.

[miniq]

Charles Martin doesn't deserve another payday

Even if Whyte fights a worse fighters it's not a duck

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Exactly, and Martin's been performing better in his last few bouts, plus he is big enough that Whyte won't be able to clinch & grapple his way to a win.

I could definitely see Martin knocking Whyte out. 50/50 fight IMO.

[Ultralight]

Povetkin never had covid. That was made up. He had pics of himself dancing with his wife and then took them all down not long after the diagnosis. i believe he just took his time..and i even believe that he was totally fine in the lead up to the fine, walking normal, until the final ring walk. To me that suggests the guy was either spiked OR he was just putting on an act to excuse the incoming loss.
don't ever underestimate povetkin's mind games.
whyte tried to force the fight for a november date...povetkin just had to pull the covid excuse.

whyte did certainly dominate povetkin until that punch...he was the unlucky one, he wasnt 'lucky to beat povetkin'.
The parker fight wasnt whyte fighting dirty...that literally was down to parker's own tactic of literally barging into a perfectly timed clinch at every opportunity. go and watch that fight again and pay attention to the way parker went in looking to clinch and ended up catching his head on whyte's head. Still, Parker, even now is an elite fighter and beat Ruiz, so by no means can you dismiss Whyte's acheivement of beating him.

Chisora is improved from his younger days due to his experience. He used to be erratic and go head hunting when he was younger which is why he got knocked out by Haye.
Notice the moment chisora went head hunting when he was down 2 points, he got countered and dropped hard? whyte is similar in that respect, he is wreckless too.


Whyte will certainly fight ruiz/wilder/ortiz if the fights are available and both sides do it properly. i dont like ortiz, the way he always calls out guys when he knows they're signed to a fight already. Idk what the plan is there..and i dont trust the pbc would even attempt it.
think about it...if wilder loses to fury..then he will fight ruiz before calling it quits. ruiz would fight ortiz and wilder first in whatever order. Ortiz would prob just end up fighting Arreola or some thing like that.

i wouldnt even mind if ortiz fought someone like daniel dubois if al felt it was better to work with frank warren. i just cant see pbc doing matchroom any favours in making fights.

Whyte only won against Parker because that headbutt was counted as a kd. It would have been a draw had it not. And he did fight dirty. Even the biased sky commentary had to acknowledge and make excuses for it.

You didn't understand my post. You can rate those wins as highly as you want and deny Povetkin having covid but it doesn't change that Whyte almost lost to Parker and Chisora with favorable reffing and got slept by Sasha Povetkin. He knows he can lose to anyone in the top 10-15 and that includes Martin. That's why Whyte is scraping the bottom of the barrel to fight Franklin. He doesn't want to ruin the big potential payday. I don't fault him for it either since its the smart thing to do.

[!-1]

Whyte is a conman just like his promoter Eddie. Every one of his best wins is controversial, favourable refereeing, judging and drug cheating as well as glove tampering.

[Mammoth]

Whyte is not ducking Martin. Martin just wants that DAZN money. That's it. Also, why is Martin not fighting Hrgovic for the chance to fight AJ? Can anyone answer that one?

He's not ranked by the IBF for starters...

[thetruthteller]

He's not ranked by the IBF for starters...

He who? Martin? Uuummm, check again. Hes the #1 rated guy. Hrgovic is #3. #2 is Usyk, who is fighting AJ next. Hrgovic is offering a straight shot at the belt and none of these guys want to take him up on it. Yet guys like Martin will sit here and call out Whyte.

[Mammoth]

He who? Martin? Uuummm, check again. Hes the #1 rated guy. Hrgovic is #3. #2 is Usyk, who is fighting AJ next. Hrgovic is offering a straight shot at the belt and none of these guys want to take him up on it. Yet guys like Martin will sit here and call out Whyte.

He, Dillian Whyte, is not ranked by the IBF. I misread you were asking about. Originally, it was supposed to be Hunter vs Martin as the eliminator before it all got weird. I'm not sure who they can get to fight Filip.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Charles Martin ducked Hrgovic for IBF eliminator.

[thetruthteller]

He, Dillian Whyte, is not ranked by the IBF. I misread you were asking about. Originally, it was supposed to be Hunter vs Martin as the eliminator before it all got weird. I'm not sure who they can get to fight Filip.

Yes, Hunter did a full duck and now it looks like the entire rest of the IBF top 15 is ducking Hrgovic. Including Ruiz, Ortiz, Parker and a few others. This is why I can not support most of the heavyweights today. They are all talk and no action. This would be a perfect opportunity for someone like Ortiz or Ruiz to get a direct shot at the title again but they are ducking the opportunity. It's pathetic. And Ruiz has already had a tune up so he couldn't say that was the problem. These guys all want the easiest path to a belt, while asking for props too. It's pure cowardice. So Martin should reeeeally shut his mouth right now

[jmrf4435]

I think whyte would KO him brutally, though