Tyson Fury vs. Dillian Whyte: date, time, how to watch, background
Tyson Fury will defend his heavyweight title against British rival Dillian Whyte before an expected 90,000-plus at Wembley Stadium in London and on pay-per-view.
Tyson Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) vs. Dillian Whyte (28-2, 19 KOs)
Date: Saturday, April 23
Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (main event later in show)
Where: Wembley Stadium, London
TV/Stream: ESPN+ Pay-per-view ($69.99) and theaters in U.S.; BT Sports Box Office Pay-per-view in U.K. (£24.95)
Division: Heavyweight (unlimited)
Rounds: 12
At stake: Fury’s WBC title
Pound-for-pound ranking: Fury No. 6
Odds: Fury 5-1 favorite (average of multiple outlets)
Also on the card: Anthony Cacace vs. Jonathan Romero, junior lightweights; Isaac Lowe vs. Nick Ball, featherweights
Prediction: Fury UD
Background: Tyson Fury returns to the U.K. for his second title defense after campaigning in the U.S. over the past three-plus years. And British fans evidently have taken notice: 94,000 are expected to fill Wembley Stadium to watch him face countryman and longtime contender Dillian Whyte in arguably the biggest All-British heavyweight fight in history. The 33-year-old “Gypsy King” is coming off back-to-back knockouts of rival Deontay Wilder, a dominating seventh-round stoppage in February 2020 and a brawl in which he got up from two knockdowns to KO Wilder in 11 rounds last October. Oleksandr Usyk holds there of the four major heavyweight titles but most experts rate Fury higher than the Ukrainian. Whyte will be fighting for a major heavyweight title for a second time, having been stopped by then-beltholder Anthony Joshua in 2015. He became the WBC’s top contender in 2017 but couldn’t secure a fight with then-champion Wilder. The 34-year-old Londoner finally gets his shot after he rebounded from a one-punch knockout loss to Alexander Povetkin in 2020 by stopping the Russian in the rematch in March of last year.
