Tyson Fury sent concerned text to Dillian Whyte which rival threw back in his face

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Tyson Fury sent a concerned message to Dillian Whyte back in 2019 which was promptly dismissed by his rival.

The British pair will do battle at Wembley tonight in front of a record crowd of 94,000 with Fury's heavyweight title on the line. Fury and Whyte have both shown respect to each other throughout the fight week despite having exchanged heated words and verbal jabs in the past.

In 2020, Fury revealed a private message he sent to Whyte after his laboured victory against Mariusz Wach, which read: "Hi mate just seen an interview with you and you seem a bit down in yourself. As you did well last night with everything that is going with you, all that bull**** f**** up your mind, put it all behind you and 2020 will be your year. God bless."

This was tweeted as a screenshot with the caption: “This is a text I sent Dillian Whyte back in December after his fight with (Mariusz) Wach. I was concerned about him so I reached out to him. And this is how people treat you when you’re nice to them!! And by the way, when he was out on a ban years ago I kept him going with bringing him into my camps sparring.

“Paying him and looking after him like an egg in a cake. This is how I’m repaid with BS tweets. There is a saying people take kindness for weakness and other men meet before mountains.”

Whyte quickly responded to Fury's tweet to continue the pairs' bickering row, tweeting: “Keep running Luke Tyson