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 champion Serhii Bohachuk weighed 153.1 lbs, and his substitute opponent, Ishmael Davis, weighed 153.6 lbs.
Fury Bulks Up For Rematch
Fury’s 281 lbs wasn’t that much of a surprise, given that he’d promised to come in heavier around that weight for the rematch with the three-belt champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs).
The Gypsy King wants to use his size to duplicate the success he had when he bulked up for his rematch with Deontay Wilder and overpower him with size and roughhouse tactics with his seventh found on February 22, 2020. Fury weighed 273 lbs for that fight.
Wilder made it easy for Fury to use his…
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