Comments Thread For: Arum Slams Whyte's Demands For Fury Fight: Now Considering Ruiz, Helenius As Opponents

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Whyte earned 300k for his last fight and is now demanding 10 million?

It's obvious that Shyte is pricing himself out. When this fight fails to get made the blame will lie squarely on him and his team.

[MeanestNiceGuy]

From a fake ass shoulder injury to outpricing himself! Just stinking up the joint per usual and causing a distraction in the division. Fight Wallin or go away!

[techliam]

He’s done bigger numbers than Fury in the U.K. and that’s the most important thing. So going by the numbers they have done in the U.K. alone - he deserves at least 35%. And as a mandatory and interim champ - he should get 40%.

Whyte is in the driving seat here. Fight him or vacate the title.

That's up to the WBC, not Whyte
With the WBC talking up their Franchise Champion as the new WBA Super style champion, there's more options than you're leading on. I wouldn't be surprised if Whyte becomes WBC champion, and Fury gets elevated to the now recognised WBC Franchise champion

The WBC are probably the best organisation at sniffing out money (and not being ashamed of it). They can see an Undisputed fight down the road with Fury with a lenient ruling, that's 3% of a mega fight in sanctioning fees.... from both Fury and Usyk/Joshua. Whyte should take as much as he's offered, otherwise he's risking the WBC allowing 1 more unification fight between Fury and Usyk/Joshua... which they are allowed to do. Remember Whyte has only been interim champion since Mar 21, and official mandatory challenger for barely a few weeks

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fury for whatever reason just doesn't want to fight whyte. i don't know why

You should get him on your program and ask him what makes him so nervous of Whyte he has to offer 5 million in the U.K where Whyte is essentially needed to do a huge payout for himself just on PPVs ?

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It's obvious that Shyte is pricing himself out. When this fight fails to get made the blame will lie squarely on him and his team.

Still not good at math I see ?

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The fight was in March and they had a crowd I believe. The first fight was last August during lockdown. Fury would NOT have made 1 million. He had a 25 million contracted guarantee for the Wilder trilogy no matter when it took place.

If Whyte made more for the Povetkin rematch, he will have to present evidence to the WBC at arbitration - a catch-22 because that means he lied to them about what he made to get lower sanctioning fees on his purses - which may open him up to bigger issues.

You keep confusing the WBC split with contract negotiations. The WBC split refers to purse bid - not private negotiations over PPV, merch, etc. Once again, if Arum wins the purse bid, he is only obligated to give Whyte his percentage of the purse bid amount - nothing more. This is why most big fights never go to purse bid when a PPV is involved.

The Povetkin fights were during Covid lockdowns,it would have no meaning of anything on the Fury fight without restrictions on it .

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Still not good at math I see ?

Arum said they offered 25%. That's more than fair.

You don't really think Dillian Shyte is worth $10 million, do you?

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Arum said they offered 25%. That's more than fair.

You don't really think Dillian Shyte is worth $10 million, do you?

Where are all these financial figures coming from? Do we know already how much this fight would generate?

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That's up to the WBC, not Whyte
With the WBC talking up their Franchise Champion as the new WBA Super style champion, there's more options than you're leading on. I wouldn't be surprised if Whyte becomes WBC champion, and Fury gets elevated to the now recognised WBC Franchise champion

The WBC are probably the best organisation at sniffing out money (and not being ashamed of it). They can see an Undisputed fight down the road with Fury with a lenient ruling, that's 3% of a mega fight in sanctioning fees.... from both Fury and Usyk/Joshua. Whyte should take as much as he's offered, otherwise he's risking the WBC allowing 1 more unification fight between Fury and Usyk/Joshua... which they are allowed to do. Remember Whyte has only been interim champion since Mar 21, and official mandatory challenger for barely a few weeks

I don't like the whole Franchise Champion thing but in this case I would actually support Tyson Fury requesting it.

Dillian Shyte shouldn't be allowed to hold up the division with his ridiculous, overinflated demands.

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Arum said they offered 25%. That's more than fair.

You don't really think Dillian Shyte is worth $10 million, do you?

Arum said they offered 5.5. Million if you can do math and see what Whyte generated outside Covid restrictions you know it’s way over 5 million if the fight takes place in the U.K, they were going to fight in the U.K right ?

You can play dumb but if Arum is not willing to start at 10 and come to some reasonable number it’s better you then me be I like sounding smart . Anyone saying Whyte is out pricing himself is very gullible.