* Whyte out* Oct.30th Dillian Whyte vs Otto Wallin DAZN
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Fights just don't happen in boxing. Guys fight once a year (if you're lucky) and even then they all have a million rematch clauses so they can fight the same guy over and over again. Otherwise, they pull crap like this and just dodge fighting for another year.
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A career of taking every dangerous fight offered, about time he played the game.
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this post reads like sarcasm (justified) but I'm going to take it literally for arguments sake;
Whyte turned down final eliminators with Pulev and Ortiz and turned down a 5 million payday against Joshua for unified titles
what truly tough fights has he taken? aside from Parker who he barely beat, and a washed Povetkin who flatlined him.
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Do those not count or something?
He shouldn’t have had to fight Ortiz in an eliminator, go down Wilders list of title defences and tell me who else got asked to do that, it was a Dillian Whyte specific task, he was clearly being fucked about in that situation.
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not enough to constitute "a career of taking every tough fight offered".
Whyte ducking Wallin only adds to the list of times he's ducked tough opposition, far longer than the list of tough opponents he's actually beaten
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For sure that’s a little extra hurdle he had to clear because he’s proven himself a dangerous top 5ish guy for quite awhile though. I think the pendulum swings both ways for Whyte though. As I mentioned in the past, he has this ridiculous interim title that has given him leverage to hit the replay button on eliminators and now he simply has to not fight Wallin.
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Hopefully they can find a last minute replacement instead of taking Wallin off the card.
Fights get cancelled all the time. Besides, if Whyte were to reschedule the Wallin fight, what certainty is there that the WBC wouldn't just strip him of the Interim title for being unvavailable to fight Fury?
There's a saying that comes to mind. Don't set yourself on fire so you can keep others warm.
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He should fight ruiz Jr but I guess they are still making the ruiz/Martin fight? Idk. But he would gain more from that win than beating Wallin.
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If he won't fight Wallin, he won't fight Ruiz.
He gains more from a high profile victory on DAZN than he does from sitting around claiming he deserves shit he's not going to get.
He gains most from taking the time to recover from his shoulder injury and either making the Fury fight, or forcing Fury to vacate.
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fixed it for you
I’m curious, why do you think he’s unlikely to get the fight? Do you think there will be network or streaming service issues, or is it that the fighters don’t want the fight?
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Wallin was a stay busy fight until wilder/fury if whyte is now injured it should be straight to fury. Yeah it sucks for wallin but that’s the sport
