Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder weigh in for 3rd fight at heaviest ever

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury weighed 274 pounds for his rematch with Deontay Wilder successful February 2020.

He’s adjacent bigger for their 3rd fight.

Fury weighed successful astatine 277 pounds Friday astatine the MGM Grand Garden and Wilder 238 — meaning some fighters volition beryllium the biggest they’ve been successful the ringing Saturday for their rubric combat astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Fury weighed 256.5 pounds for the archetypal combat successful December 2018. Wilder weighed 212.5 pounds for the archetypal combat and 231 for the rematch.

Fury (30-0-1, 21 knockouts) utilized his size to his vantage successful the rematch by leaning connected Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) during clinches en way to a seventh-round method knockout.

Wilder doesn’t privation that to hap again.

“I’m bench-pressing a small implicit 350, truthful immoderate value helium comes successful (at), I tin laic connected my backmost and assistance him,” Wilder told ESPN’s Bernardo Osuna aft stepping disconnected the scale. “There won’t beryllium nary of that brushing maine and putting each his value connected maine and things similar that.”

Wilder was comparatively subdued passim the people of the promotion, deferring astir of the trash speech to Fury. Wilder insisted again Friday that he’s calm earlier the astir consequential combat of his career.

“When I’m not calm, my caput is cloudy. And erstwhile your caput is cloudy, it allows you to marque atrocious decisions,” helium said. “But erstwhile you’re calm, you tin upwind the storm. … You’re capable to spot definite things, and you’re capable to marque large decisions. I’m looking to beryllium calm this combat truthful I tin marque large decisions.”

Fury took the other attack during his interrogation with Osuna and proclaimed his value is foreshadowing “total obliteration.”

“That’s what it means to me, 277 pounds,” said Fury, adding that helium doesn’t expect immoderate adjustments from Wilder.

“(I envision this trilogy ending) with him severely wounded connected the floor. Smashed to bits. Looking similar he’s been tally implicit by an 18-wheeler truck. He was complaining past clip helium had a cracked skull and an injured arm. I can’t hold for Saturday night.”

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