Anthony Joshua-Dillian Whyte rematch fight that was on the cards for August 12 could be back on.
Whyte spoke with Talk Sport, and the 35 year old laid into AJ and Eddie Hearn for “using” his name by speaking about a potential fight, this a rematch of the 2015 slugfest AJ and Whyte had, when in fact they didn’t actually want it.
Hearn has now responded as we knew he would: “We made an offer to Dillian four or five weeks ago and they came back and the exact wording was ‘absolutely not, this is unacceptably low’ and basically nowhere near a number that they’d accept,” Hearn said to Boxing Social.
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“I funnelled that back to AJ and the team and we said ‘Okay, we’ll move onto another opponent.’ That was it. Now they come out of the blue and say, ‘We accept that offer,’ right when we’re about to announce or are in negotiations with another opponent.
We went straight back to Dillian and said, ‘Can you confirm that you accept that offer?’ and they said, ‘Yes, we do’ and I said ‘Fantastic,’ so we’re getting them a contract. They’ll have a contract today. We need to move at pace but if they’re serious that fight can 100 percent happen. It’s still the fight that AJ wants for August 12th so again, if Dillian is serious, that fight is going to happen.”