mike is one of the rare boxers that gets paid just to be at places worldwide lol...his biography pretty much confirmed that
Essential 10/28 ESPN PPV: Fury vs Ngannou IS OFFICIAL!!!
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The Saudi Prince brought out the legends and nearly every significant boxing figures..
Like everyone else. The Saudis opened the bankbook..all them are getting paid something ridiculous..so Teddy is falling in line
this ain't Teddy's only grift, hell him getting this Saudi check to sell Francis as some legit opponent was the windfall of the bullshyt he's been peddling for the past 5 years or so
Tyson Fury Comes In 9 Pounds Heavier For Ngannou Fight Than He Was For Stoppage Of Chisora
BY KEITH IDEC
Published Fri Oct 27, 2023, 11:52 AM EDT
A fully clothed Tyson Fury was nearly 10 pounds heavier Friday night than he was when the unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion weighed in for his last fight.
The 6-foot-9 Fury stepped on the scale at 277.7 pounds for his 10-round, non-title fight against Francis Ngannou on Saturday night at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 6-foot-4 Ngannou came in at 272.1 pounds, 7.1 pounds more than he was allowed to weigh for his UFC bouts.
Fury (33-0-1, 24 KOs) officially weighed 268¾ pounds for his last fight, a 10th-round stoppage of England’s Dereck Chisora (34-13, 23 KOs) last December 3 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
Fury, of Morecambe, England, is a 20-1 favorite, according to FanDuel sportsbook. Ngannou, a native of Cameroon who is 17-3 (12 KOs) as a mixed martial artist, will make his professional boxing debut.
The pay-per-view bout between Fury, 35, and Ngannou, 37, will not count on their records.
If Fury wins and escapes unscathed Saturday night, his 12-round title unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk will likely be announced in the ring for December 23 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Ukraine’s Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) will be ringside for Fury-Ngannou.
The winner between Fury and Usyk, who owns the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO titles, will be crowned the first fully unified heavyweight champion of the four-belt era.
The official weights for the four heavyweight fights on the pay-per-view portion of the Fury-Ngannou undercard and one non-televised contest are listed below.
TNT Sports Box Office (£21.95)
7 p.m. BST
ESPN Pay-Per-View ($79.99)
2 p.m. EDT; 11 a.m. PDT
Fabio Wardley (16-0, 15 KOs), Ipswich, England, 241 pounds vs. David Adeleye (12-0, 11 KOs), London, 232 pounds, 12 rounds, heavyweights.
Joseph Parker (32-3, 22 KOs), South Auckland, New Zealand, 250.1 pounds vs. Simon Kean (23-1, 22 KOs), Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, 255.1 pounds, 10 rounds, heavyweights.
Arslanbek Makhmudov (17-0, 16 KOs), Montreal, 260 pounds vs. Junior Anthony Wright (20-4-1, 17 KOs), Evanston, Illinois, 229.5 pounds, 10 rounds, heavyweights.
Moses Itauma (5-0, 3 KOs), Chatham, England, 236.1 pounds vs. Istvan Bernath (10-1, 8 KOs), Szeged, Hungary, 257.1 pounds, 6 rounds, heavyweights.
Non-televised
Carlos Takam (40-7-1, 28 KOs), Douala, Cameroon, 257.1 pounds vs. Martin Bakole (19-1, 14 KOs), Airdrie, Scotland, 299.4 pounds, 10 rounds, heavyweights.
Yo I’m catching up on all the media the past few days surrounding this fight, what’s up with all these professional boxers and trainers acting like this is an interesting matchup.
Yo I’m catching up on all the media the past few days surrounding this fight, what’s up with all these professional boxers and trainers acting like this is an interesting matchup.
AYYYYYRABBBB MONEY!!Yo I’m catching up on all the media the past few days surrounding this fight, what’s up with all these professional boxers and trainers acting like this is an interesting matchup.
