Tyson Fury spoke at the announcement of his new Furocity energy drink on Feb 11, 2022, in London about his next fight with Dillian Whyte.
“I’ve not been told about the venue or actual date yet. But if it was Wembley Stadium, it would be a very special moment for me, very special. I think that news is to follow pretty soon. Frank and Bob are working pretty hard on that behind the scenes to get the date and venue nailed down.” Fury, the WBC champion who emerges from a trilogy of fights with American Deontay Wilder, having not fought in the UK since 2018, added: “It’s been a long time since I’ve boxed in the UK… what did Thin LIzzy say? The Boys are back in Town and I’m happy to be home and to put on a show for everybody. It’s gratifying to come home and fight here. I’ve been away a long time, doing my own thing over in America, cracking America, beating the champions. There has to be a time when you return home for the hero’s welcome and I’m definitely due a hero’s welcome. “I just think it’s going to be a fantastic event and give all the fans who supported me from the comeback to today, their reward to come and watch me live. It’s very important to give the fans a fight back home and who better against then a man who’d had a lot to say, a man who has a very high world ranking, a man who is mandatory for my WBC title and a man who kept telling everybody that I was afraid of him and that I’d never fight him. All of a sudden the fight is on his toes and guess what? He won’t sign the contract.”
“I think he’s trying some mind games, but he’s messing with the king of mind games.” Fury branded Whyte “a coward” for refusing to respond to call-outs on social media, while promoters Warren and Arum urged Whyte to complete the agreement, Warren revealing that Whyte had refused thus far to promote the bout, due to the 80/20 purse split mandated by the WBC sanctioning body.
Fury, speaking publicly to the media for the first time since the promotional wranglings over a potential step-aside deal with Anthony Joshua for Fury to meet Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, holder of the IBF, WBA and WBO belts, for the undisputed heavyweight crown, added: “Let’s just say that didn’t happen because one party came back on the final day and said I want X amount to millions more or I’m no doing it and Big T said ‘stick the X amount of millions up your rear end’, so yeah, it was very complicated and stressful for me to deal with these idiots.” “I’m not a businessman and all the business stuff drives me mad because I just want to sign a contract and get on with it. I don’t like all this backwards and forwards and all this snakey behaviour. They’re like rattlesnakes in the grass, they say one thing and mean another, I don’t like that. What you see on the tin is what you get with me. If I bark and growl, I’m probably going to bite you, but if I’m wagging my tail then you know I’m not. These are like reptiles, you never know what’s going to happen with them.”
Asked if the undisputed title was his target this year, Fury added: “I’ve got Dillian Whyte to take care of and in this game, you can never count your chickens before they hatch. I’m fighting Dillian Whyte next, providing he signs the contract – and he’s got until February 21st to sign it. If he doesn’t he’ll be ridiculed and called a coward forever because of his antics.”