{"id":483205,"date":"2024-05-17T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483205"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T23:53:45","slug":"fury-is-in-better-shape-at-the-weigh-in-for-oleksandrs-bout","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fury-is-in-better-shape-at-the-weigh-in-for-oleksandrs-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury is in better shape at the weigh-in for Oleksandr&#8217;s bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury disappointed against Francis Ngannou in October, but &#8220;The Gypsy King&#8221; showed far better shape during today\u2019s weigh-in at 262 pounds ahead of his undisputed heavyweight championship bout against Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tyson Fury just shoved Oleksandr Usyk in their final face off \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9E6RrjSbYY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9E6RrjSbYY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HappyPunch\/status\/1791532654359130203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English boxer was 277.5 pounds when he faced the ex-UFC heavyweight champ, as he triumphed with a scandalous split-decision win in a non-title fight. Tyson\u2019s 262 pounds are his lowest since he beat Otto Wall during the fall in 2019 at 254 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>His Ukrainian opponent, however, weighed a career-high 233.5 pounds. Usyk\u2019s previous high was 221.5 pounds when he beat Anthony Joshua during the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m prepared to rock and roll,&#8221; revealed Tyson (34-0-1, 24 KOs). &#8220;Fireworks on Saturday. I will destroy him on the ring tomorrow. I&#8217;m heading for his heart. That&#8217;s what I\u2019m prepared to do. F&#8212; his titles. I will rip his f&#8212;ing heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr (21-0, 14 KOs) will fight for a 6<sup>th<\/sup> time in the heavyweight division. The Ukrainian won his last match in the 9th round with a knockout against Daniel Dubois in the past summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u203c\ufe0f Tyson Fury\u2019s explosive final words before the Oleksandr Usyk fight tomorrow night: \u201cI\u2019m coming for his heart, f*** his belts, I\u2019m coming for his f***ing heart. F*** him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queensberry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Queensberry<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yQog13zDBR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yQog13zDBR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelBensonn\/status\/1791533708958195990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury disappointed against Francis Ngannou in October, but &#8220;The Gypsy King&#8221; showed far better shape during today\u2019s weigh-in at 262 pounds ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483206,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144,17309,17440],"news_category":[20045,14084],"gn_keywords":[18146,18145,18117],"acf":{"announce":"Tyson is in better shape for the upcoming fight against Usyk.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483213,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483205\/revisions\/483213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483205"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483205"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}