DILLIAN WHYTE teed off as he finally broke cover ahead of their St George's Day battle of Britain and warned: "This isn't the Tyson Fury show."
Just eight days before their WBC heavyweight world title fight in front of a record 94,000 fans at Wembley, the Gypsy King has revealed he had been hitting up to 200 balls a day on the golf range to increase the power in his right hand.
But Whyte, who has served an astonishing 1,260 days as mandatory challenger, is refusing to be the pitching wedge where Fury has been wielding the driver.
Emerging from his training camp in Portugal for the first time, he said: “This fight's been a long time coming. Even when I was the mandatory challenger, we had to go through a legal process. We had to push the legal angle and finally we got him to fight me.
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