DILLIAN WHYTE fired an obscene insult at Eddie Hearn after hearing of the promoter’s doubts about his rematch with Anthony Joshua.
The Brixton Body Snatcher will renew his rivalry with AJ on August 12 in front of a sold-out crowd at the O2 Arena.
Matchroom Boxing chief Hearn doubted his golden boy’s second grudge match with Whyte would sell out the North Greenwich dome, revealing his scepticism in a recent interview.
It didn’t take long for Whyte to get wind of the clip, on which he commented: “What a c**t.”
Hearn revealed his doubts about the selling power of the fight in an interview with Boxing UK, saying: “‘I made a mistake.
“I started looking at Twitter and I started to let people dim my light.
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“Started letting people get into my head about whether this is actually a big fight.
“And then I started to think, ‘Oh maybe it’s not going to sell-out’.
“And I sat down with Frank Smith and I was like, ‘Do you think this is going to sell-out?’
“And he’s like, ‘Are you ‘f***ing mad.'”
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Former two-time heavyweight champion Joshua will bid to pick up his second win on the bounce in his domestic dust-up with Whyte.
A multi-million-pound December dust-up with former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will await Joshua should he get past Whyte again.
But Hearn admitted to talkSPORT: “I don’t know how the Whyte fight goes.
“But we’ve been told categorically that the deal on the table is not the deal if he loses to Dillian Whyte.
“They didn’t want him to fight Dillian Whyte.
“It was almost like, ‘Please, don’t fight Dillian Whyte.
“‘You don’t need to. We’ve got this fight in December.’ But AJ was like, ‘No. I want to fight.'”
Joshua, 33, returned to the win column in April with a scrappy points win over Jermaine Franklin, his first opponent since his back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
