I'm always amazed when journalists and fans unquestioningly take the word of sanctioning body presidents and promoters - people who lie every day of their lives without batting an eyelid.
I'm not a fan of Whyte but I have to say that I don't think he's completely to blame for the problems in making the Fury fight.
When it comes to the details of the original Whyte negotiations I'm wary of believing Arum and Warren as they're hardly the bastions of truth and they're biased.
Clearly Whyte is no angel either and is equally biased and so it seems to me that it's more likely that there was fault on both sides in the negotiations - Whyte being clearly wound up by how he feels he's been treated by the WBC over the past four years.
The WBC's decision on the split must also have annoyed Whyte and I can understand why.
Section 2.16 of the WBC's so-called rules show that the split should have been 70:30 not the 80:20 that the WBC decided on - this is because their rules are a sham and they can do what the hell they like, whenever they like, and for whatever reason they choose.
The reason they gave (one of a few) about comparing both fighters' last 3 purses does not stand up to scrutiny as it's totally biased towards Fury.
Fury has just had 3 world title fights in the US while Whyte's last two fights were during lockdowns, one in front of no crowd in the Matchroom garden and the other in front of a small crowd in Gibraltar - both situations limited Whyte's purse a great deal. The other fight was a hastily arranged fight in Saudi on the undercard of Ruiz vs Joshua 2 not long after Whyte was (rightly) cleared to fight again by the WBC following his problem with UKAD.
Some may feel like Whyte is being childish but it must be said that he did not automatically refuse to attend the press conference yesterday, apparently there was a simple disagreement with Warren about something to do with the private jet.
Do we believe Frank Warren that the problem was all because of Whyte?
Once again, I'm wary about totally believing Frank Warren about anything. I don't necessarily believe Whyte either as he's just as biased as Warren. In such situations I don't see how anyone can choose to believe one side or the other - again I choose to believe there was fault on both sides.
There's now a toxic relationship between Whyte and Sulaiman/ Arum / Warren which doesn't seem fixable - this probably means that there will be more problems ahead. IMO each of Sulaiman, Arum, Warren and Whyte have to take their fair share of the blame for that.
The fight game gets stranger by the day, the higher the rankings the less I want to watch it or hear about it anymore. Between PPVs and odd ball news I have found myself watching guys fight that are working there way up the rankings once they make it or make there deals it starts getting old n weak. And if it is handed to them early well it just happens sooner.
I'm always amazed when journalists and fans unquestioningly take the word of sanctioning body presidents and promoters - people who lie every day of their lives without batting an eyelid.
I'm not a fan of Whyte but I have to say that I don't think he's completely to blame for the problems in making the Fury fight.
When it comes to the details of the original Whyte negotiations I'm wary of believing Arum and Warren as they're hardly the bastions of truth and they're biased.
Clearly Whyte is no angel either and is equally biased and so it seems to me that it's more likely that there was fault on both sides in the negotiations - Whyte being clearly wound up by how he feels he's been treated by the WBC over the past four years.
The WBC's decision on the split must also have annoyed Whyte and I can understand why.
Section 2.16 of the WBC's so-called rules show that the split should have been 70:30 not the 80:20 that the WBC decided on - this is because their rules are a sham and they can do what the hell they like, whenever they like, and for whatever reason they choose.
The reason they gave (one of a few) about comparing both fighters' last 3 purses does not stand up to scrutiny as it's totally biased towards Fury.
Fury has just had 3 world title fights in the US while Whyte's last two fights were during lockdowns, one in front of no crowd in the Matchroom garden and the other in front of a small crowd in Gibraltar - both situations limited Whyte's purse a great deal. The other fight was a hastily arranged fight in Saudi on the undercard of Ruiz vs Joshua 2 not long after Whyte was (rightly) cleared to fight again by the WBC following his problem with UKAD.
Some may feel like Whyte is being childish but it must be said that he did not automatically refuse to attend the press conference yesterday, apparently there was a simple disagreement with Warren about something to do with the private jet.
Do we believe Frank Warren that the problem was all because of Whyte?
Once again, I'm wary about totally believing Frank Warren about anything. I don't necessarily believe Whyte either as he's just as biased as Warren. In such situations I don't see how anyone can choose to believe one side or the other - again I choose to believe there was fault on both sides.
There's now a toxic relationship between Whyte and Sulaiman/ Arum / Warren which doesn't seem fixable - this probably means that there will be more problems ahead. IMO each of Sulaiman, Arum, Warren and Whyte have to take their fair share of the blame for that.
The fight game gets stranger by the day, the higher the rankings the less I want to watch it or hear about it anymore. Between PPVs and odd ball news I have found myself watching guys fight that are working there way up the rankings once they make it or make there deals it starts getting old n weak. And if it is handed to them early well it just happens sooner.