TYSON FURY and Dillian Whyte have met for the face-to-face for the final time before tomorrow’s huge clash.
And the respectable theme continued – with the pair DANCING on stage at the end of the weigh in.
Fury towered over Whyte when they faced up and the Gypsy King also weighs more, coming in at 18st 12lbs.
That means Fury has failed to deliver on his promise to fight at his heaviest weight ever, but is still bigger than Whyte’s 18st 1lbs.
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Fury vs Whyte confirmed weights
- Tyson Fury – 264lbs
- Dillian Whyte 253lbs
Both men are all smiles during the face-off and begin dancing together once that’s over with.
Make of that bizarreness what you will.
Tyson Fury – 264lbs
The WBC heavyweight champion comes in at 264lbs and is the overwhelming fan favourite here.
Dillian Whyte – 253.4lbs
The Body Snatcher is looking in some serious shape and comes in at 253.4lbs for his clash with Tyson Fury.
The champ is next.
Tyson Fury is here
Short break again before the final weights are read out.
Fury has now arrived by the side of the stage.
Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte
The weigh in is NEXT!
Whyte is here by the side of the stage.
Ekow Essuman vs Darren Tetley
- Tetley – 145lbs
- Essuman – 146lbs
We’re back underway!
I didn’t have that cheeseburger, by the way.
Big fight feel
Jimmy Lennon Jr is here!
The legendary announcer has made the trip over for tomorrow night’s class between Fury and Whyte.
Now we’ve got a big fight.
Short break in play
MC Thomas Treiber tells us we’re going to have a short break before the weights for the co-main and main events are read out.
Do I have time to scoff a cheeseburger from Nanny Bill’s?
Isaac Lowe vs Nick Ball
- Lowe – 125lbs
- Ball – 125lbs
Tommy Fury vs Daniel Bocianski
- Bocianski – 175lbs
- Fury – 177lbs
David Adeleye vs Chris Healey
- Adeleye – 232lbs
- Healey – 282lbs
Royston Barney-Smith vs Constantin Radoi
- Radoi – 132lbs
- Barney-Smith – 132lbs
Karol Itauma vs Michal Ciach
- Ciach – 175lbs
- Itauma – 175lbs
Kurt Walker vs Stefan Nicolae
- Nicolae – 127.4lbs
- Walker – 129lbs
Fury vs Whyte weigh-in
So Fury and Whyte are finally set to do battle tomorrow night and they’ll weigh in around 45 minutes from now.
It’s been a long time coming this fight, as it was first floated as an idea by both in the summer of 2019.
Box Park is absolutely packed to the rafters for their final face-off.
We’ll have you covered throughout.
Frampton on Fury’s recovery powers
“Knowing that Fury has that in him, that he can really dig deep and fight in the trenches, might be in Dillian’s mind,” Frampton said.
“If Dillian was going into this fight without ever seeing the last two Wilder fights, he would be going into this expecting a back-foot Fury getting up on his toes.
“Now he cannot know what to expect, he has to be thinking ‘how do you beat him?’
“Fury has literally taken the absolute biggest and best shots from one of boxing’s biggest ever punchers and kept getting up.
“He looked knocked out, at one point his eyes were closed down on the canvas, there were memes about him getting compared to The Undertaker.
“He also gets up and wins the round.”
15 minutes away
Not long now until today’s weigh-in gets underway at Box Park.
Gypsy King vs Body Snatcher
Tomorrow live on BT Sport Box Office.
Dean Whyte vs John Fury?
“John [Fury] wanted to fight me, I wasn’t sure what was going on!” Whyte’s brother said after Wednesday’s presser.
“He went mad, I was like ‘mate, what are you doing? You’re an old man, his dad, I’m going to give you the respect because you’re his father, I’m not going to entertain this’.
“I said ‘Tyson, talk to this guy’ and Tyson said ‘dad chill out’.
“I’m a young man respectfully, younger than him, I’m with 40 or 50 guys, it’s not that kind of party, we’re not playing silly b here’.
“I don’t know what was going on. I said to him ‘I’ve always given you respect, you’re this man’s dad, I’ve given you respect, I’ve never been rude to you’.”
Fury’s presser thoughts
It was certainly a tame press conference on Wednesday, but Fury had to prevent his dad getting into it with Whyte’s brother Dean.
“I just prevented a big ruckus on stage, people want a big ruckus at a press conference, they want to see all this screaming and shouting and punching,” Fury said afterwards.
“But listen, let the two boxers do a fight and enjoy it, it’s not for entourages to get involved or anything like that and to be professional and say ‘let’s step back, let me and him do what we’ve got to do and that’s it’.
“We’re here to a do a fight, the man is doing his job, getting paid to do it and so am I. People are here for a real fight, we don’t need to scream and shout at our press conference.
“It was respectful stuff, the man’s done his job, he’s obviously trained, so have I, we’re going to see a good fight Saturday night, end of. Nothing more to say.”
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Can Whyte beat Fury?
Carl Frampton thinks not, despite a potential underestimation of the Brixton man.
“I think Dillian is underestimated by some people but I can see why,” he said.
“People are now so excited about Fury because of the Wilder fights but he had a few stinkers before that.
“And a lot of people will remember Whyte getting knocked out by Povtkin.
“People assume it will be an easy night for Fury but it is very hard for me to see a way for Whyte to win the fight.”
Tyson Fury’s journey so far
Its been a long road for the Gypsy King, and he’s arguably had two separate careers.
And what a chapter he’s writing at the moment. WBC, The Ring & Lineal heavyweight champ.
Fury vs Whyte FULL CARD
Prepare for a night of fireworks under Wembley’s famous arch.
- Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte
- Ekow Essuman vs Darren Tetley
- Isaac Lowe vs Nick Ball
- David Adeleye vs Chris Healey
- Tommy Fury vs Daniel Bocianski
- Karol Itauma vs Michal Ciach
- Royston Barney-Smith vs Michael Walton
- Kurt Walker vs Stefan Nicolae
How to watch Fury vs Whyte
BT Sport Box Office will broadcast the fight in the UK, with ESPN+ showing the event in the US.
BT wrote in a tweet to confirm the news: “The time for talking is over! After years of back and forth, the heavyweight showdown is on!”
The event will cost £24.95 on BT Sport, which was the price of Fury’s last two clashes with Deontay Wilder on the channel.
Exclusive radio coverage is available on talkSPORT with coverage starting at 7.30pm.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
