Dillian Whyte vs. Jermaine Franklin, billed as Maximum Violence was a professional heavyweight boxing match contested between former WBC interim heavyweight champion Dillian Whyte and Jermaine Franklin.

[2][3] After his world title shot against Tyson Fury in April ended in a stoppage defeat, on 30 September 2022, Whyte appointed Hall of Famer Buddy McGirt as his head trainer replacing Xavier Miller and Harold Knight.

McGirt, a well known trainer, previously had trained the likes of Arturo Gatti, Vernon Forrest, Antonio Tarver and Sergey Kovalev.

[4][5] On 19 October, multiple reports confirmed Whyte (28-3, 19 KOs) would make his ring return in a scheduled 12 round bout against American contender Franklin (21-0, 14 KOs) on 26 November at the OVO Arena Wembley in London.

[6] Two days later, the fight and card was made official and would stream on DAZN worldwide.

[13] In an uneventful bout, which went the 12 round distance, Whyte won via majority decision by the scores of 115–115 and 116–112 (twice).

Franklin felt he did enough, especially in the earlier rounds to earn the victory and wanted a rematch in the future.