British heavyweight takes on his conqueror of last August in Gibraltar on Saturday with his career in the balance
“This is heavyweight boxing and it takes just one second and a lapse in concentration to end it,” Dillian Whyte told me earlier this month as he remembered his crushing loss to Alexander Povetkin last August. “That’s why it’s the star division of boxing. You never know what is going to happen with the heavyweights.”
Whyte faces Povetkin again in Gibraltar on Saturday night and the heavyweight division’s capacity to generate both brutal and shocking results could be decisive. The rematch between two dangerous but vulnerable fighters might end up being a surprisingly cagey and awkward encounter but it is freighted with even more uncertainty and jeopardy for both men. It is also clear that another defeat for Whyte would leave his dream of fighting for a world title in ruins.
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