Comments Thread For: Hearn Explains Whyte-WBC Legal Dispute, Not Wanting Fury to Be Franchise

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Eddie Hearn, promoter for heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte, has explained that he doesn't want the WBC to make Tyson Fury a 'franchise' champion. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Whyte had taken legal action against the WBC - to enforce the date of his mandatory title shot.
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[Bonduu]

Phuck the WBC franchise champion, Sulaiman can stick it far up his behind, it is for suckers.

[Zelda]

Well, then it seems pretty obvious. Whyte has to accept Covid-19 as Force Majeure which delays everything by 10-12 months or become an email champion. Bob and ESPN will like Fury to fight big to recover their investment in Fury.

There are a thousand and one ways WBC can play this. Wilder fights Fury. The winner is elevated to a Franchise champion. Maybe invent a super champion above the regular champion or something like that and have two former champs - Wilder/Fury and Ruiz fight for it. If Whyte pisses off WBC, they will piss him off in return.

[Boxviewer]

Hearn is completely correct here. This franchise this thing doesn't make sense at all. Under the WBC franchise rule one becomes a champion without getting respect associated to a true champion. What a Joke.

Wilder offered Fury the opportunity to become a WBC champion but now Fury is the champion he doesn't want to give others the same opportunity. What a crook of a man is Fury.

[1hourRun]

"All of a sudden, Top Rank requests that Vasiliy Lomachenko gets made franchise champion and the WBC makes Lomachenko the franchise champion - meaning that you cannot get near him, you cannot touch him, he doesn't have to make a mandatory, and if he loses he is still the WBC franchise champion. What is the point of searching for greatness if you are never allowed to get there when you deserve it?''

[Bunch Pag]

Eddie's right in not wanting A franchise champion.. never heard so much bull in my life ..

The WBC are also right in what looks like waiting for Fury and AJ to sort something out..

[nubianpiye]

Whyte shouldn’t have to wait another year fury has to fight whyte Before Joshua

[Bob]

I agree with Hearn for once. But the same applies to the WBO & Usyk.
A super series is already lined up.
Fury Wilder vs Whyte Pov
Aj Pulev vs Usyk Chisora
Winners collide for Undesputed with room for a voluntary or a rematch with mandatories done this round.
If this was a true sport it would already be talked about.
Give the fans what we want for once.
But politics 🤔😡
Should have happened in a 18. But r@c15.t hypejob told us on a sky interview "i won't be rushed into the Wilder fight"

[tophat1]

Franchise championship is a joke, if you keep it when you lose its not a respectable title.

[Inspired]

Fury is one of those guys who need to be 100% motivated to put himself through the ordeal of a tough training camp for a big fight. I think if he has to go through Wilder and Whyte in either order before AJ, there's no telling what mental state he'll be in later down the line.
However that's part and parcel of being a champion. He can't claim greatness until he's carries himself as the true king of the division for an extended period of time and beaten credible mandatories one after the other.

It's like those football teams who canraise their game and beat any team in the world, yet they always struggle over a whole season because they drop points vs midtable sides.