Dillian Whyte

Dillian Whyte
Data
Birth Name	Dillian Whyte
Fight name	The Body Snatcher
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	British
birthday	April 11, 1988
place of birth	Port Antonio
style	Left delivery
size	1.93 m
Range	1.98 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	28
Victories	27
Knockout victories	18th
Defeats	1
draw	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Dillian Whyte (born April 11, 1988 in Port Antonio , Portland Parish , Jamaica ) is a British boxer of Jamaican origin. He started as an amateur in the super heavyweight division and is currently active in the heavyweight division .

Trainer / manager

Dillian Whyte was trained by Chris Okoh until 2015 and managed by Joe Long and promoted by Frank Maloney until 2014 . Eddie Hearn has been his new promoter since 2016 and Mark Tibbs has been his trainer this year . He had previously been trained by Johnathon Banks in 2015/16 , who also looked after Wladimir Klitschko .

Amateur career

Among the amateurs, Whyte defeated the later Olympic champion , his compatriot Anthony Joshua , unanimously on points in 2009 and even knocked him to the ground in the second round.

The extremely powerful left-wing rigger also beat one of his opponents into a coma for several weeks.

Professional career

Although Whyte is extremely powerful, he only won his first two professional fights on points.

In 2015 Whyte completed a total of five fights, against the Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (17-7), the undefeated Georgian Beka Lobjanidze (10-0), Irineu Beato Costa Junior (17-4), Brian Minto (49-9) and the undefeated Anthony Joshua (14-0), whom he defeated in the amateurs. He defeated Nascimento, Lobjanidze and Costa Junior each with a classic knockout , he won against Minto in the 3rd round by TKo, this fight was for the vacant WBC international silver title. However, Whyte was difficult to knock out against Joshua in The O2 Arena in round 7. However, Whyte put Joshua in trouble for the first time in his professional career, especially in the 2nd round. This fight was about the WBC International as well as the Commonwealth and the British Championship (BBBofC) , which was vacant.

After three more victories, he won against Dereck Chisora (26-6) in December 2016 in an action-packed fight just on points.

In 2017 he won against the American Malcolm Tann and the Finn Robert Helenius and became WBC Silver Heavyweight Champion. He defended this title on March 24, 2018 with a difficult knockout in the sixth round against the previously undefeated Lucas Browne (25-0).

On July 28, 2018, he defeated Joseph Parker unanimously on points (113-112, 115-110, 114-111) and inflicted only his second defeat in his professional career so far. In addition, it was the first time in his entire professional career that Parker fell to the ground with a regular hit and was counted in.

In December of the same year there was a rematch with Chisora at The O2 Arena in London . Compared to the first fight, Whyte presented himself in top form this time and beat Chisora ​​in the 11th round classic knockout

In 2019 Whyte gave a positive doping test and was temporarily banned by the association.

List of professional fights

27 wins (18 knockout wins), 1 defeat , 0 draw
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Whyte
2011	May 13th	Medway Park, Gillingham, UK	Tayar Mehmed professional debut	Points win / 4 rounds
	16th September	The Coronet, London, UK	Remigijus Ziausys	Points win / 4 rounds
	3rd of December	York Hall, London, UK	Toni Visic	Victory / TKO 3rd round
2012	21th January	Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool, UK	Hastings Rasani	Points win / 4 rounds
	2nd March	Troxy, London, UK	Kristian Kirilov	Victory / TKO 1st round
	May 19th	Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, UK	Zurab Noniashvili	Victory / TKO 1st round
	7th of July	York Hall, London, UK	Gabor Farkas	Victory / KO 2nd round
	September 15th	York Hall, London, UK	Mike Holden	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 13th	Bluewater, Stone, UK	Sandor Balogh	Victory / TKO 4th round
2014	21st November	Camden Center, London, UK	Ante Verunica	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	November 28th	Camden Center, London, UK	Tomas Mrazek	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	20th of December	City Hall, Hull, UK	Kamil Sokolowski	Victory / TKO 3rd round
2015	February 7th	Camden Center, London, UK	Marcelo Nascimento	Victory / KO 2nd round
	February 28	Odyssey Arena, Belfast, UK	Beka Lobjanidze	Victory / KO 4th round
	August 1st	Craven Park, Hull, UK	Irineu Beato Costa Junior	Victory / KO 1st round
	12th September	The O 2 , London, UK	Brian Minto	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	12th of December	The O 2 , London, UK	Anthony Joshua WBC International Heavyweight Championship Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship BBBofC British Heavyweight Championship	Loss / TKO 7th round
2016	25th June	The O 2 , London, UK	Ivica Bacurin	Victory / KO 6th round
	30th July	First Direct Arena , Leeds, UK	David Allen WBC International Heavyweight Championship	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	October 7th	The SSE Hydro , Glasgow, UK	Ian Lewison BBBofC British Heavyweight Championship	Victory / abandon 10th round
	10th of December	Manchester Arena , Manchester, UK	Dereck Chisora	Points win (split decision) / 12 rounds
2017	August 19th	Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, USA	Malcolm Tann	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	28th of October	Principality Stadium , Cardiff, UK	Robert Helenius WBC Silver Heavyweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2018	March 24th	The O 2 , London, UK	Lucas Browne WBC silver heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 6th round
	July 28th	The O 2 , London, UK	Joseph Parker WBC Silver Heavyweight Title Defense WBO International Heavyweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	December 22	The O 2 , London, UK	Dereck Chisora WBC Silver Heavyweight Title Defense WBO International Heavyweight Title Defense	Victory / KO 11th round
2019	20th of July	The O 2 , London, UK	Óscar Rivas	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	December 7th	Diriyah Arena, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia	Mariusz Wach	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
Source: Dillian Whyte in the BoxRec database

Web links

• Dillian Whyte in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Whyte knocked out five victims, leaving one in a coma
2. ^ Gareth A Davies: Dillian Whyte holds on to defeat Joseph Parker on points after last-round scare. In: The Telegraph. July 29, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Whyte provisionally banned for doping