The purse-split for Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte 's heavyweight world title clash is still up in the air just days out from the fight.
Frank Warren's Queensbury Promotions and Bob Arum's Top Rank landed a record-breaking £31million purse bid for the fight in January. The bid means Fury will earn £22m while Whyte will take home £6m as of the 80/20 split ordered by the WBC. Whyte stands to make another £3m if he can hand Fury his first professional loss.
Whyte was unhappy with the minimal offer given his interim champion status and his team launched an arbitration against the WBC. With the pair set to fight at Wembley on Saturday, Matchroom Boss Eddie Hearn has now revealed the arbitration case is still ongoing.
"It's ongoing, there's a lot of legal activity ongoing between Dillian Whyte and the WBC," Hearn told iFL TV. "During this whole process with this fight, I've been supporting these guys and been helping them. I'm not obligated to do so, but it's just the relationship we've got.
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"I'm not involved directly in the contract for this fight or with the legal dispute with the WBC. I'm aware of it, can't give you enough information, most of it is confidential anyway. That is ongoing and there is going to be a lot to discuss."
Whyte's lawyer Jeffrey Benz has clashed with Warren in the build-up to the fight and accused Fury of playing "silly games" with Whyte. Benz even stated he isn't 100 per cent sure Whyte will make the walk on fight night after claiming the interim champion's mum was not offered a ticket.
After staying quiet for months whilst preparing for the fight in Portugal, Whyte finally broke his silence last week and admitted he felt "mugged off" by those discrediting his role in the fight selling a record 94,000 tickets.
"It's not the Tyson Fury show, his fights with Deontay Wider didn't sell out, it's not just the Tyson Fury show," he said. "This show sold out because of me and Tyson Fury. This is about Tyson Fury and me, it's the Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte show.
'When these guys are trying to mug me off and treat me like it's the Tyson Fury show, they needed to get things corrected. Once things were corrected... I'm a professional at the end of the day and here I am."
