Dillian Whyte vs. Lucas Browne – Results

By Boxing News - 03/24/2018 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: Dillian ‘The Body Snatcher’ Whyte (23-1, 17 KOs) may have smashed his way into a heavyweight title shot on Saturday night with his brutal 6th round knockout win over an out of shape and painfully slow-looking former WBA champion Lucas ‘Big Daddy’ Browne (25-1, 22 KOs) at the O2 Arena in London, England.

Whyte picked apart the flabby looking Browne until letting loose with a flurry of shots in the 6th that ended with a booming left hook that sent him down flat on his face on the canvas. Browne appeared to be unconscious from the left hand that the 29-year-old Whyte had hit him with. The referee Ian John Lewis stopped the fight immediately and the medical team came into the ring to look over the badly hurt Browne. The fight was officially stopped at 0:37 of round 6. Boxing News 24 had Whyte up 5 rounds to zip at the time of the stoppage.

Browne’s face was cut and badly swollen from the hard shots from Whyte, who really didn’t land a lot of punches in the fight. It was that the shots that Whyte did land did a lot of damage to the out of shape looking Browne’s face. Browne suffered a cut over his left eye in round 3. The cut got worse with each round. Whyte bloodied Browne’s nose in round 5.

Browne was landing almost nothing in the fight. He was too slow, and Whyte had the reach and speed advantage over him. More importantly, Whyte was in far better shape than Browne, and that was the main difference in the fight. Browne looked like he hadn’t trained properly, because his midsection was hanging over his trunks. He looked like he was a good 20 lbs. overweigh. I don’t think it would have made much of a difference if Browne had come into the fight in the mid-240s. He still would have been too slow for Whyte to deal with.

Whyte’s promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing is hopeful that the WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman will order WBC heavyweight champion Deontay ‘Bronze Bomber’ Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) to defend against Whyte next in June back at the O2 Arena in London. If that fight is ordered, Wilder would be defending his WBC title in his challenger’s hometown.

“I hope The WBC make Dillian mandatory now, the fight is there for Deontay Wilder in June,” Hearn said after the fight. “We have to force the shot and after that performance, he deserves the shot.”

Browne looked way too slow tonight to be competitive. When Browne would throw a power shot, they would mostly come up short of the mark. Whyte was able to see the punches coming and move out of range before they would get near him. Browne didn’t help himself by coming into the fight so heavy. He weighed 264 pounds at Friday’s weigh-in, and that was 14 lbs. heavier than what he weighed in for his fight against Ruslan Chagaev two years ago in stopping him in the 10th round to win the WBA heavyweight title in 2016. Even back then, Browne looked painfully slow, but tonight was an all-time low for him. He was so slow. He made Whyte look a lot better than he is.

”My left hook is back,” Whyte said about what used to be his best offensive weapon in his arsenal before he suffered a left shoulder injury during his fight with Anthony Joshua in 2015. ”It’s been two years since my left shoulder surgery, but now it’s back.”

Whyte nailed Browne with a hard left hook to the head in the 6th round to knock him out. The shot wasn’t as powerful as Whyte thinks it was. It looked more of a case of Whyte having hit Browne with a three-punch combination that buzzed him a little bit. Browne then walked into the left hook when he was coming forward trying to land something.

Given that Wilder successfully defended against his mandatory challenger Bermane Stiverne just last November in knocking him out in the 1st round, it’s not likely that the WBC will order him to defend his title against Whyte until 2019 at the earliest. If is going to steer Anthony Joshua around Wilder for the remainder of this year, then there’s a chance that he may have to face Whyte in 2019 before they fight a unification.

Some fans feel that Hearn wants Whyte to beat Wilder, so he can remove the threat he poses to his No.1 money fighter IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. If the WBC orders Wilder to face Whyte, then it could help Hearn, because it potentially removes the biggest risk to Joshua’s reign. If Wilder loses to Whyte, then Joshua and Hearn won’t have to worry about Wilder facing Joshua and possibly knocking him out.

Wilder would have a very good chance of knocking Whyte out if that fight gets made. He’s faster and the much bigger puncher. If Whyte starts hitting Wilder with shots, he’s going to get hit back with one of his big right-hand shots. Whyte doesn’t take a shot very well unfortunately for him. I hope Whyte’s promoter Eddie Hearn thinks carefully before he tries to make the Wilder-Whyte fight.

Whyte said this after the fight in calling out Wilder:

“I hope Browne is all right, now where you at Wilder? Let’s go in June. I’m ready! Forget, Joshua, he won’t be ready in time. Let’s do this next baby. Lt’s go. I proved I’m world class. I’ve been working so hard, training away and it’s paid off. I need the challenge and when it is there, I rise. I can crack. The O2 is my home; I’m going to knock all these guys out, one by one. I just knocked out a world champion in six rounds. That shows where I am at. Wilder’s next fight is me. If he fights anyone else I will go the USA and kick off.”

In other boxing results on tonight’s card:

Dereck Chisora (28-8, 20 Kos) knocked out Zakaria Azzouzi (14-3, 10 KOs) in the 2nd round on the undercard. Chisoria, 34, knocked Azzouzi down with a right hand in round 2. The fight was stopped by the referee after Azzouzi got up.

Other results:

Callum Johnson KO 1 Frank Buglioni

Lewis Ritson TKO 2 Scott Cardle

Anthony Fowler TKO 5 Kalilou Dembele TKO5