DILLIAN WHYTE confronted an announcer who mistakenly gave him a very inappropriate nickname.
The boxer takes on Moses Itauma in Riyadh on Saturday, but the build-up has not gone according to plan.
That is because DAZN ‘s announcer Thomas Treiber made a huge blunder when calling out his name during a media event this week.
Instead of calling Whyte by his nickname ‘The Bodysnatcher’, Treiber shouted out ‘The Babysnatcher’.
Whyte, 37, was left bewildered and he called for the announcer to confront him.
The pair did have a coming together with the heavyweight questioning how he managed to make such a big mistake.
Treiber apologised and said it was simply an accident.
Whyte said: “Bodysnatcher-Babysnatcher that’s crazy bro.
“Babysnatcher’s wild bro.”
Fortunately Whyte saw the funny side in the end and was able to accept the apology before shaking hands with the announcer.
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Whyte heads into Saturday’s fight hoping his experience will trump the speed, power and confidence of 20-year-old Itauma.
But for Whyte – who owns 22 DOGS – fighting to save his career is nothing new having been a survivor from the moment he was born.
The bookies’ underdog said: “I’ve always been a fighter. I was born in the middle of a hurricane in 1988, a hurricane blew the roof of my mum’s house while she was giving birth to me.
“I just know to persist. I’m extremely stubborn. All I’ve done in my life is fight and struggle, fight and struggle, fight and struggle, fight and struggle, fight and struggle. So it’s what I know what to do.
“Everything else I’ve had to learn. I’ve had to learn to be a better human being. I’ve had to learn to be a person of faith, I’ve had to learn to be more loving, more caring.
“I’ve had to learn to do other things but fighting and being amongst animals is the two things that I know to do best.”
