REVEALED: Tyson Fury will earn a whopping £26.2MILLION for his stunning win over Dillian Whyte… with the Body Snatcher set to bag just £5.8m and the final purse split falling 82/18 in the Gypsy King’s favour
Tyson Fury is to receive £26.2million after he retained his WBC heavyweight world championship over Dillian Whyte.
The Gypsy King landed a huge uppercut in the sixth round with the Body Snatcher unable to continue with referee Mark Lyson rightly waving it off.
Fury’s victory was fought in front of 94,000 people at Wembley Stadium, in what could be the final fight of his career.
Tyson Fury is to receive a massive pay day following his victory over Dillian Whyte
Fury stopped the fight in the sixth round with a vicious uppercut on the Body Snatcher
There had been doubts over whether the fight would even take place after the two camps had struggled to come to terms over a deal.
In the end it was Fury’s UK promoter Frank Warren who won the purse bid to stage the fight, with an 80/20 split in the Gypsy King’s favour.
Following his defeat on Saturday night, Whyte is set to receive even less of a share from the purse split.
Fury was already set to receive £23million as his base purse for the fight, and after taking victory, he is set to earn an extra £3.2million as a winner’s bonus.
While Fury will receive £26.2million, Whyte will receive just £5.8million from the fight
In comparison, Whyte will receive just £5.8million from one of the biggest fights in British boxing history.
It also means the split will now fall to 82/18 in favour of the WBC world heavyweight champion.
This comes after Whyte admitted that he was unhappy with the original split in an interview with talkSport.
When asked last week if he would pursue a higher split, he said: ‘No, no, it’s impossible.
‘How am I gonna get it? The fight’s Saturday, that can’t change now, that can’t change now.
Whyte was unhappy with the purse split before the fight saying he should get 40 per cent
‘They were never gonna change the split. The split just got manipulated and got forced upon me.’
He added: ‘As WBC interim champion by rights I should be getting 45 per cent or 40 per cent minimum.’
After his dominant display at Wembley, Fury confirmed that it could be his ‘final curtain’ to his boxing career.
He said in the ring after his fight: ‘I promised my lovely wife, Paris, of 14 years, after the (Deontay) Wilder 3 fight that would be it and I meant it.
‘I had a war, it was a great trilogy and I meant that but I got offered to fight at Wembley at home and I believed that I owed it to the fans, I owed it to every person in the United Kingdom to come here and fight at Wembley.
The Gypsy King’s future in the sport is uncertain despite saying that he plans to retire
‘Now it’s all done, I have to be a man of my word and I think this is it, this might be the final curtain for the Gypsy King and what a way to go out.’
Doubts have been raised over his retirement plans though after wife Paris was seen mouthing ‘no chance’ when Fury was talking about quitting the sport.
She later said that the only way he would return to the ring is if he were to have a unification bout.
This would likely either mean a fight with Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua, who are expected to have their rematch in the summer.