TYSON FURY said he would return to the ring following a two-and-a-half-year absence bigger and better, and has certainly lived up to one half of this promise.
The former world heavyweight champion weighed a career-heaviest 19 stone 10 pounds and 2 ounces (276 lbs) ahead of his comeback fight against Albanian Sefer Seferi. For context, Fury weighed 17 stone 9 pounds the day before he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko back in November 2015, and his heaviest weight before today was the 19 stone 8 pounds he weighed ahead of a 2014 fight with American Joey Abell.
Seferi, meanwhile, came in at 15 stone and 2 ounces (210 lbs).
This mismatch on the scales is expected to be replicated tomorrow night (June 9) when the pair meet at the Manchester Arena.
In the ‘Return of the Mack’ chief support bout, Terry Flanagan and Maurice Hooker contest the vacant WBO super-lightweight title, and both were within the championship weight limit this afternoon in Deansgate, Manchester.
Flanagan, a former WBO champion at lightweight, weighed 9 stone 13 pounds and 5 ounces, while Hooker, his American opponent, weighed 9 stone 13 pounds and 4 ounces.
Other weights:
Nathan Gorman: 17 stone 11 pounds and 4 ounces
Sean Turner: 18 stone and 9 pounds
Andrew Robinson: 11 stone 5 pounds and 8 ounces
Mark Heffron: 11 stone 5 pounds and 3 ounces
Zelfa Barrett: 9 stone 6 pounds and 12 ounces
Edwin Tellez: 9 stone 5 pounds and 8 ounces
Troy Williamson: 11 stone 6 pounds and 8 ounces
Jack Flatley: 11 stone 8 pounds and 4 ounces
Sam Maxwell: 10 stone 1 pound and 10 ounces
Kane Baker: 10 stone and 8 ounces
Lyndon Arthur: 12 stone 8 pounds and 12 ounces
Charles Adamu: 12 stone 5 pounds and 1 ounce
Jack McGann: 11 stone 5 pounds and 3 ounces
Dwain Grant: 11 stone and 6 ounces
Zac Burton: 12 stone 7 pounds
Dominik Landgraf: 12 stone 4 pounds and 9 ounces
Jordan Thompson: 13 stone 4 pounds
Dimitri Kalinovskij: 13 stone 12 pounds and 8 ounces
