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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 Tetteh, 36, had been severely punished.
Dillian sported a sizable belly and looked as if she had been training at a burger stand. He didn’t look good, working to stop a fighter Daniel Dubois destroyed in one round in 2019. Tonight’s fight showed Whyte is a shell of the fighter he once was. There are no words to describe how bad Whyte looked. It was so horrible to look at.
After the fight, Whyte tried to explain why it took him seven rounds to stop Tetteh, saying he wanted to “go a few rounds.” It didn’t seem like that. Dillian was trying to knock out Tetteh, and he didn’t have the explosiveness that he once had five or ten years ago.
The painfully slow and wild Tetteh battled Whyte in the first, backing into the ropes and landing some good shots. For a moment, it looked like the limp-looking, 261-pound Whyte was in trouble, but he dodged Tetteh’s shots enough to escape without falling.
After the first round, Tetteh was exhausted and fought in short bursts for the rest of the fight. In the fourth, Whyte bloodied Tetteh’s nose, which woke up Ghana. He went on the attack and had a decent round. That was the last hurray for Tetteh, and he rarely threw punches after the fourth.
An absolutely CRAZY ending to round 6 👀#BecauseTetteh | Live on DAZN pic.twitter.com/Fm5IbZPu2c
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) December 15, 2024
In the seventh, Whyte fired with a storm of shots, attempting a takedown but missing. He fell to the canvas after throwing a wild right hand.
Whyte used a lot of punches, low blows and forearms to manhandle Tetteh throughout the contest, but the referee decided not to penalize him. Sometimes it’s pretty ugly with the fouls, given that it was a mismatch and there was no real need for those tactics.
“I needed the rounds. I’ve been away for a long time. He 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,” Dillian Whyte said after his victory over journeyman Ebenezer Tetteh.
“Everyone is fighting everyone. Turki is doing a great job of making the guys fight each other. I want to fight in March. Inactivity has ended my career. I would love to be on a billboard for the Riyadh season. People pay their hard-earned money to come see me.
It’s hard to imagine Turki Alalshikh including Whyte on any of his cards from the Riyadh season because he looks very, very old and slow at 36 years old. It wouldn’t be good to include it. There are plenty of young, talented heavyweights who deserve to be on Riyadh’s season cards more than Whyte. Turki would do us all a favor by NOT including Dillian in his letters from Riyadh. It’s bad enough that he has Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fighting on his cards. Those guys have nothing left.
Whyte had been encouraging Tyson Fury to manhandle Oleksandr Usyk for their rematch this Saturday. That might explain why he was fouling Tetteh so often tonight, but why would he? This was a guy that Dillian Whyte could have easily destroyed if he had any talent left, but obviously, he no longer has it. They shot him.
ABSOLUTE CHAOS 🤯#BecauseTetteh | Live on DAZN pic.twitter.com/PbaLmllz21
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) December 15, 2024
