Journeyman Dillian Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) scored a seventh-round stoppage of an out-of-shape looking Ebenezer Tetteh (23-2, 20 KOs) on Sunday night at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar. The referee halted the fight after the seventh round because 36-year-old Tetteh had been severely punished.
Dillian sported a sizeable gut and looked like he’d been training at a hamburger stand. He did not look good, laboring to stop a fighter that Daniel Dubois destroyed in one round in 2019. Tonight’s fight showed that Whyte is a shell of the fighter he’d once been. There are no words to describe how bad Whyte looked. He was so awful to look at.
After the fight, Whyte tried to explain away why it took him seven rounds to stop Tetteh, saying that he wanted to “get some rounds in.” It didn’t look like that. Dillian was trying to knockout Tetteh, and he didn’t have the explosiveness that he once did five to ten years ago.
The painfully slow and wild Tetteh took the fight to Whyte in the first, backing up against the ropes and landing some nice shots. For a moment there, it looked like the flabby-looking 261-lb Whyte was in trouble, but he dodged enough of Tetteh’s shots to escape without going down.
After the first round, Tetteh was exhausted and fought in brief spurts for the remainder of the contest. In the fourth, Whyte bloodied Tetteh’s nose, which woke up Ghana. He went on the attack and had a decent round. That was the last hurrah for Tetteh, and he rarely threw any punches after the fourth.
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In the seventh, Whyte unloaded with a storm of shots, trying to knock but failing. He fell on the canvas after throwing a wild right hand.
Whyte used a lot of rabbit punches, low blows, and forearms to rough up Tetteh throughout the contest, but the referee chose not to penalize him. It is pretty ugly at times with the fouling, given this was such a mismatch, and there was no real need for those tactics.
“I needed the rounds. I’ve been out for a long time. I was angry and wanted to kill. Anyone that is coming from a third-world country is trying to change their life. He gave me the rounds I needed. I’m happy,” said Dillian Whyte after his win over journeyman Ebenezer Tetteh.
“Everyone is fighting everyone. Turki is doing a great job of making the guys fight each other. I want to fight in March. Inactivity has killed my career. I would love to be in a Riyadh season card. People pay their hard-earned money to come out and see me.
It’s hard to imagine Turki Alalshikh including Whyte on any of his Riyadh Season cards because he looks very, very old and slow at 36. It wouldn’t be good to include him. There are a lot of talented younger heavyweights who deserve to be on the Riyadh Season cards more than Whyte. Turki would be doing us all a favor by NOT including Dillian on his Riyadh cards. It’s bad enough he’s got the washed-up-looking Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fighting on his cards. Those guys have nothing left.
Whyte had been encouraging Tyson Fury to rough up Oleksandr Usyk for their rematch this Saturday. That might explain why he was fouling Tetteh so frequently tonight, but why in the world would he need to? This was a guy that Dillian Whyte have been able to destroy without any problems if he had a shred of talent left in him, but obviously, he doesn’t have it anymore. He’s shot.
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