Boxing results: Whyte shows his age in TKO win over Tetteh

Journeyman Dillian Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) scored a seventh-round stoppage of an out-of-form Ebenezer Tetteh (23-2, 20 KOs) on Sunday night at the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar. The referee stopped the fight after the seventh round because 36-year-old Tetteh had been severely punished.

Dillian had a sizable gut and looked like he’d worked out at a hamburger stand. He didn’t look good, working 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 once was. There are no words to describe how bad Whyte looked. He was so horrible to look at.

After the fight, Whyte tried to explain away why it took him seven rounds to stop Tetteh, saying he wanted to “get some rounds in.” It didn’t look like that. Dillian was trying to knock Tetteh out and he didn’t have the explosiveness that he once had 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 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 short spurts for the remainder of the contest. In the fourth, Whyte bled Tetteh’s nose, which woke Ghana up. He went on the attack and had a decent round. It was the last hurray for Tetteh, and he rarely struck out after the fourth.

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In the seventh Whyte unloaded with a flurry of shots and tried to tap but failed. He fell to the canvas after throwing a wild right hand.

Whyte used a lot of rabbit punches, low punches and forearms to wear down Tetteh throughout the contest, but the referee chose not to penalize him. Fouling is pretty nasty at times as this was such a mismatch and there was no real need for that tactic.

“I needed the rounds. I’ve been out for a long time. I was angry and wanted to kill. Anyone who comes 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 victory over journeyman Ebenezer Tetteh.

“Everyone is fighting everyone. Turki does a good job of making the guys fight each other. I want to fight in March. Inactivity has killed my career. I would love to be on a Riyadh season ticket. 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 many talented younger heavyweights who deserve to be on the Riyadh season cards more than Whyte. Turki would do us all a favor by NOT including Dillian on his Riyadh cards. It’s bad enough that he has the real Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fighting on his cards. Those guys have nothing left.

Whyte had encouraged Tyson Fury to make Oleksandr Usyk tough for their rematch this Saturday. That might explain why he defiled Tetteh so often tonight, but why on earth would he? This was a guy that Dillian Whyte would have been able to destroy with no problem if he had an iota of talent left in him, but he clearly doesn’t anymore. He’s shot.