TYSON FURY claimed that Dillian Whyte dropped him in sparring, and said: 'I used his as a punching box'.
These 33-year-old heavyweight competitors climbed the ranks together, and were once training partners.
Tyson Fury claimed that Dillian Whyte dropped him in sparring, and denied
being dropped.
Their relationship has deteriorated over the years and will be ended at Wembley on April 23.
Whyte claimed that he had floored Fury more than once during their famed sparring sessions.
Sky Sports interviewed him and he said: "I don’t like sparring stories, but the people in the sport know. They know everything about me.
"Well, Tyson Fury and me fought and I bashed him around and dropped him on numerous occasions. It's that simple.
Fury, however, tells a different tale. He beat Whyte so badly that his cousin Hughie (a teenager at the time) had to replace him.
Carl Frampton of BT Sport heard this from him: "I have sparred Dillian Whyte many times. He was my punching bag every time.
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"Hughie was 18 years old at the time, and he used beating him.
"All these stories about him knocking me down 25x in sparring - it is highly unlikely that anyone believes that rubbish."
Fury quickly refuted Whyte's sparring allegation, but insisted that it didn't matter if it were true.
He stated, "There's no substance it, knocking my down umpteen more times and all that."
"Just let me say that he knocked me down eight times in sparring. We all know sparring isn't fighting, right?
"How many times do you see people get so pumped up in the gym that they then box like Sugar Ray Leonard on fight night?
"Sometimes it's hard to have good days at the gym or bad days. But sparring isn't fighting.
"Just for the record, he has never knocked down me once." "I have never been knocked to the ground in a spar."
