Heavyweights Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury both unsurprisingly made weight for their Saturday night rematch taking place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Usyk, 37, tipped the scales at 226lbs, with Fury weighing 281lbs – a 55lbs difference. Most notably, both remained fully…
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A gum-chewing, jacket-wearing Tyson Fury weighed in at 281 lbs, and the unified heavyweight champion scaled in at 226 lbs at Friday’s weigh-in for their rematch in the main event tomorrow night on Saturday, December 21st, in Riyadh.
Fury’s weight…
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Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk weighed in at a trim 226 lbs, while former WBC champ Tyson Fury came in at 281 lb at Friday’s weigh-in for their DAZN PPV rematch this Saturday, December 21st, in Riyadh.
In the co-feature, former WBC interim junior middleweight…
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Former WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk weighed in at 153.1 lbs, while his replacement opponent Ishmael Davis came in at 153.6 lbs during Friday’s weigh-in for their 12-round co-feature bout this Saturday, December 21st, at the Kingdom…
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Robeisy Ramirez’s Injury
The former WBO 126-lb champion Robeisy (14-3,…
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Oleksandr Usyk is ready for Tyson Fury to come up with a set of different tricks that he’ll be using to try and defeat him tomorrow night in their rematch this Saturday, December 21st.
Tyson has not given any hints…
To this day, Egis Klimas leaves the technical details of fight preparation and analyzing the next bout – in this case, Saturday’s unified heavyweight title defense against former champion Tyson Fury – to others. Klimas knows well from his 12-year-long managerial bond to three-belt…
Eddie Hearn says Tyson Fury “looked quite old” during the media workout this week, noting how he’s aged ahead of his rematch with WBA, WBC and WNO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on Saturday, December 21st in Riyadh.
Although Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs)…