England’s Dillian Whyte and America’s Jermaine Franklin donned their countries’ colours at today’s weigh-in ahead of the England vs USA World Cup group stages clash this afternoon. The pair square off tomorrow at the Wembley Arena and will be hoping their national football teams’ return the goods tonight.
At their press conference, yesterday, sparks flew as both men had to be separated after a heated staredown went south. But today it was all business.
Whyte – fresh off a knockout loss to Tyson Fury – weighed 251 lb (around his normal weight range) while Franklin dropped 20lb from his last fight against Rodney Moore, stepping on the scales at a respectable 257lb.
When they come face to face again on fight night there will be more than just bragging rights on the line. The winner is expected to face Anthony Joshua next – who is set to return to the ring for the first time since his loss to Oleksandr Usyk in March of next year.
The intense rivalry combined with their current career trajectories (both men coming off losses) has got fans salivating for a second fight and Whyte is desperate to make it happen. “I would fight Joshua tomorrow; I’d fight him for less money,” Whyte told DAZN.
“We just have that thing where me and him fight, sparks fly. It’s a fight that will make you run faster, and make you diet better. It’s a fight that would make me go to bed at 7 o’clock every day.
“He [Joshua] was fighting Usyk and he kept on talking about me and I said to him, ‘bro relax, focus on your fight because it’s a hard fight, bless you and be safe, we can talk about it after your fight and my fight’ – it’s just that we want to beat each other up.”
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