Tyson Fury will defend his WBC world heavyweight title against Dillian Whyte on April 23 at Wembley Stadium.
The date and venue of the showdown were officially confirmed on Friday after protracted talks between the two camps over the purse, and once a reunification shot between the ‘Gypsy King’ and Oleksandr Usyk was finally ruled out.
Fury, 33, has only fought once in the past two years, downing Deontay Wilder in October to claim victory in his trilogy series with the American.
Whyte, meanwhile, beat Alexander Povetkin in his last bout, in March 2021 after suffering a shock second career defeat at the hands of the Russian in their first contest.
Despite winning 28 of his 30 fights and seeing off the likes of Joseph Parker and Derek Chisora, this will be the 33-year-old’s first world title fight.
Former opponent Chisora has tipped Whyte to shine at Wembley.
“[Dillian Whyte] wants it, he’s hungry,” Chisora told Behind the Gloves. “The problem is when fighters make £20million, £30m or £40m – they’re not hungry anymore.
“There’s only one fighter who has ever been hungry when he’s made £100m and that’s Floyd Mayweather.
“When the rest of the fighters make all this money, they’re not hungry anymore, they just do it for the sake of doing it. But when someone who is hungry [and] wants it more, like Dillian right now, he’s going to come in and die in that ring that day.”
