Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte had a bittersweet moment as he watched Tyson Fury stop Deontay Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC world title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Fury dropped Wilder twice, in the third and fifth, before Wilder's corner threw in the towel in the seventh round.

Whyte, the WBC's interim-champion, has been waiting for a crack at Wilder's world title since 2018.

Fury now has until February 2021 to give Whyte his mandatory title shot.

Whyte strongly believes he would have beaten Wilder - with a similar game plan - had they ever met in the ring.

And that's why Whyte believes he was never given his shot at Wilder.

"This is why Deontay Wilder didn't want to fight me all this time, because he just knew I would beat him," said Whyte to Sky Sports.

"Fury can knock him over with a body punch. What would I do to him, if I landed body punches on him? I knew the way to beat Deontay. You've got to get him on the back foot, you've got to get him thinking and trying to use his brain, because from a boxing standpoint, he hasn't got a brain to use. His boxing skills are terrible. If you can evade his power punches and back him up, then he doesn't know what to do, he gets lost, and that's what I've been saying all this time.

"He put on extra weight, but his body was still small. Fury basically tickled him to the body and knocked him off his feet. Imagine if I give him a full power body punch. To be honest, I never expected Tyson to be so aggressive early. I thought he would have worked his way into it a bit. It was the perfect game-plan.

"I think they should have stopped the fight from earlier. He took too much punishment. I was happy. He got destroyed and now he's going to make excuses about my legs were this, my legs were that. No, you got bashed up. You got proper beaten up. What happened to him is worse than getting knocked out. He got beat up properly."