Wind up Dillian Whyte, and watch him go. “In 1988, a hurricane blew the roof off my mum’s house while she was giving birth to me,” he tells one publication on this Zoom call. “I was eating food from trash cans,” he tells The Independent. And so on. “I’ve got about 15 dogs altogether and they just had some puppies, so 16... 17... 18... 19... 20... 21... I’ve got 22 dogs now.” “Sometimes I’m borderline obese.”
Whyte, unintentionally, is full of quips. One, however, stands out as the most apt ahead of his upcoming fight with Moses Itauma, the most highly-touted heavyweight prospect in years. “As a kid, my dad used to say random stuff and it didn’t make sense to me, but now as I get older...” Whyte starts. “He used to say: ‘Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.’ Long story short, I believe in myself.”
