Tyson Fury weighs in ahead of Wembley fight with Dillian Whyte

Friday, 22 April 2022 14:30

By Greg Lambert @greglam72

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte come face-to-face at Friday's weigh-in. Photo from BT Sport.

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte have weighed in ahead of their World Heavyweight Title fight at Wembley.

WBC Heavyweight Champion Fury tipped the scales at 264lbs, 13 oz, about 9lbs lighter than for his last fight against Deontay Wilder.

The Morecambe man's opponent Whyte weighed in at 253lbs and 4 ounces.

The two men then danced on stage to Earth, Wind and Fire's 'Let's Groove' after the weigh-in, continuing the amicable nature of the pre-fight build-up since the heavyweights first came face-to-face at a press conference on Wednesday.

They will fight in front of a crowd of 94,000 people at the national stadium on Saturday night, in a fight to be shown live on BT Sport.

Fury, 33, says he will be retiring from professional boxing after the fight.

"I'm in great shape!" said Tyson afterwards.

"Dillian Whyte and his team are all respectful to us. Now we're going to go down to work and have a good fight.

"I wanted it to be a great camp where I enjoyed every minute of it, with it being my last one, and where better to do it than at Wembley Stadium against Dillian Whyte."

Londoner Whyte said: "We are ready to go to war."

"I'm not worried about what he's doing, I'm worried about what I'm going to do."

Isaac Lowe from Morecambe, Fury's friend and training partner, also weighed in for his Wembley fight tomorrow night.

Lowe, who weighed 125lbs and 4 ounces, will face Nick Ball from Liverpool in a battle for the WBC Silver Featherweight Title.

Isaac, known as 'The Westgate Warrior', looked fired up as he exchanged words with his opponent as they went face-to-face.

The 28-year-old Morecambe Football Club fan is coming off his first ever professional career loss, a seventh round stoppage defeat to Luis Alberto Lopez at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, in December. Prior to that, he'd been undefeated in his first 24 professional bouts.

Ball is undefeated in 14 professional fights.