Dillian Whyte's lawyer is not convinced his fighter's clash with Tyson Fury will go ahead.
Fury and Whyte are due to clash at Wembley on April 23 in a mandatory defence of Fury's heavyweight world title. But the build-up to the clash has been soured by a bitter row between the two teams with Whyte refusing to appear at a press conference to officially launch the fight.
His lawyer Jeffrey Benz claims his client has not been offered a ticket for his mum and has accused Fury's team of playing "silly games". And he went as far as to say he is not 100 per cent sure Whyte will walk to the ring.
"Dillian is focused on fighting, he’s straightforward in that regard, he’s assuming the fight will go forward, but you never what will happen with this opponent at the last minute," he told talkSPORT. "But Dillian is doing his thing. It’ll be an exciting fight, if it goes forward – probably the fight of the decade. You just don’t know [if the fight will go ahead].
“We haven’t spoken to Frank [Warren] or George [Warren] for a month. I had a total of a three-minute conversation with Frank, he called me. Everything we’ve asked for is normal, standard, commercial; it’s not outlandish or outrageous. "It's like nothing I’ve ever seen. We don’t have a single ticket for Dillian, his entourage, his mum or anybody else.
"Contrary to what Warren said, we didn’t ask for complimentary tickets equal to the total number of ringside seats; we asked for 25 ringside seats. It’s normal, it’s what we give to Dillian’s opponents. "We have been given nothing. We’ve asked for credentials for his security team and video team. They’ve given us the bare minimum. We spent weeks asking them to tell us the size of the ring. Imagine if Crystal Palace travel to Chelsea and they don’t know the size of the pitch?
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"It’s been stupid games, it was like pulling tooth and nail. [They’re] trying to stack the deck in favour of Fury." Warren later hit back, responding: "We couldn’t agree terms, we went to a purse bid. I don’t want to own him, I just want him to do what he’s signed for.
"He has refused to do any filming for BT. He said he didn’t show up because he didn’t get a private plane. We’re not obliged to do this. He wanted a choice of what plane to fly on and he didn’t want any strangers to film him."
