Porter lost the welterweight WBC title in September 2019 after a split-decision defeat to Errol Spence Jr., but he rebounded with an unanimous decision victory over Sebastian Formella last August for the vacant welterweight Silver WBC belt. Porter considers himself the better overall athlete, but Crawford established himself as the better basketball player during their pickup games. The two share a “pretty good friendship,” Porter (31-3-1) said.īack when they didn’t have millions of dollars at their disposal like they do now, Porter and Crawford and others would pass time walking around a nearby mall or shooting hoops. But the Crawford-Porter dynamic goes back nearly 11 years earlier than that, to their amateur days at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, while they occupied different weight classes. On the line is Crawford’s World Boxing Organization belt he’s held since 2018. (TopRank promoted the pay-per-view available on ESPN.) The opponent this time is his longtime friend, the undefeated Terence Crawford (37-0), in a welterweight title bout scheduled for this Saturday at Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas. “I don’t know why, but it’s always been that way no matter what I was doing or who I was going against.” Where you reside,’” Porter told USA TODAY Sports. “And the next thought is ‘It’s crazy that they always consider me the underdog’ and then the next thought was ‘Well, well, this is kind of where you live. He looked at the reflection in the mirror and thought to himself “it’s just crazy that people will consider me the underdog in this fight.” All rights reserved.Shawn Porter woke up one morning last week thinking about something that often crosses his mind – being the underdog. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information / Your California Privacy Rights are applicable to you. ^ Back to Top ^ © 2021 ESPN Internet Ventures. Julian Williams - 156.5 pounds Vladimir Hernandez -153.5 pounds Jared Anderson - 240 pounds Vladimir Tereshkin - 256 poundsĮdgar Berlanga - 168 pounds Marcelo Coceres - 166.5 pounds
Robert Helenius - 246 pounds Adam Kownacki - 258 pounds I'll send him home butchered."Īdditional weights for bouts on the PPV undercard:Įfe Ajagba - 237 pounds Frank Sanchez - 240 pounds His little pretty wife down there won't recognize him don't worry about that. "He'll be unrecognizable after the fight. I can't wait for Saturday night I'm going to really severely damage him," said Fury.
"He was complaining last time he had a cracked skull and injured arm. Neither boxer has competed since February 2020. He rolled forward and bullied Wilder (who is two inches shorter at 6-foot-7). In the rematch, Fury drastically changed his strategy and elected to apply nonstop pressure. In that fight, Wilder weighed 212.5 pounds while Fury weighed 256.5 pounds and boxed off the back foot. The popular wrestler got in on the promotional fun by posting a video to social media Friday urging Fury to handle his business against Wilderĭuring that controversial 2018 bout, Fury seemed to win most of the rounds besides the ones in which Wilder scored knockdowns (the ninth and 12th). I wanted to look sexy and feel sexy."įury sported a T-shirt, mask and black hat as an homage to WWE superstar "The Undertaker." Fury, like the wrestler's character, seemingly rose from dead when he got up off the canvas in the 12th round of his first meeting with Wilder to salvage a split draw.
it won't be none of that rushing me and putting his weight on me and different things like that," said Wilder. "I'm bench pressing a little over 350 so. During training camp he posted several videos on social media of him bench-pressing, wildly celebrating as he broke his personal bests. Wilder, who was shirtless, clearly packed on plenty of muscle yet was chiseled. The challenger weighed 238 pounds after coming in at a then-career-high of 231 pounds in his seventh-round TKO loss to Fury. ET, ESPN+ PPV).įury weighed 277 pounds, four more pounds than he weighed in his February 2020 rematch with Wilder. LAS VEGAS - Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder both tipped the scales at the heaviest of their careers on Friday, one day before they'll meet in a heavyweight championship trilogy fight (9 p.m. Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder both bulk up for trilogy title bout in Las Vegas
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