Dillian Whyte has ignited his war of words with Tyson Fury ahead of the pair's world heavyweight title showdown by comparing the champion to a toilet.
Challenger Whyte had refused to take part in any pre-fight promotion for the bout leading up to Saturday night, but has softened in the past few days and is now engaging in interviews and media availability. And finally there is a back-and-forth between the two Brits, with Whyte making some crude comments about the champion ahead of the fight.
Londoner Whyte will realise a dream years in the making when he finally gets his shot at the belt this weekend, and isn't allowing Fury's mind games to affect him ahead of the bout. He told BT Sport that Fury will be unable to get into his head, saying there will be only disturbing things found even if he does.
"I don't care what Tyson Fury says, he says a lot of s***," Whyte declared. "His mouth's like a toilet, it just keeps on flushing and flushing and flushing. Thats Tyson Fury, he just flushes any random s*** that comes out of his mouth.
"I don't care what he says or what he does, me and him are going to have a fight regardless. I don't care about mind games; I'm fighter and I'm a warrior. If he wants it, anytime, anywhere, I'm down, I don't give a f*** about this, that or the other. It doesn't mean anything to me, he can't get in my head. If he gets in my head he's going to find a lot of disturbance in there."
Whyte's silence almost added a different air of anticipation to the bout, with fans speculating if he would even show up to the fight. BT Sport, the event's broadcasters, even leaned into the air of mystery, billing the fight as "no hype needed" after around 94,000 tickets were sold for Wembley Stadium despite his absence.
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And Whyte has now explained that there were certain issues causing his silence, which have been resolved meaning he will now help to push the fight to a pay-per-view audience. "You can't buy a high-performance car and not put high-performance fuel in," he said, referencing Frank Warren's world-record £31million purse bid to get the fight. "And that's what they're trying to do.
"They won the fight and then treated me like nothing, they don't want to pay anything and they don't want to look after things properly. They're trying to say we won the fight so you have to do what we say.
"But I'm my own man and I do what I want to do. Unless you want to play ball and do things properly, sit down with my team and work things out. It hasn't shocked me or disappointed me, I've been in boxing a long time, with Tyson Fury you have to expect everything."
