Darren Till weighs almost as much as Tyson Fury for fight with brother Tommy

With a small implicit 8 weeks to spell until the blockbuster clash betwixt the 2 stars, Till - a erstwhile UFC combatant - has revealed his existent weight

Former UFC welterweight rubric challenger Darren Till has revealed helium presently weighs 253lbs up of his upcoming clash with Tommy Fury.

The combat - which was announced connected Sunday - betwixt the brace is scheduled to instrumentality spot connected January 18 astatine the Co-Op Live successful Manchester. Fury hasn't fought since beating YouTuber KSI past year. His erstwhile triumph came connected points against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. As for Till, the Liverpudlian was released from the UFC pursuing a decision to Dricus du Plessis backmost successful 2022. He did, however, instrumentality portion successful an accumulation boxing combat backmost successful July, defeating Mohammad Mutie by method knockout.

Speaking astir the fight, Fury said: "It feels large to yet accidental that I americium back! I person been retired of the ringing acold excessively long. I've been getting itchy knuckles truthful I americium thrilled to beryllium capable to denote my return, headlining a monolithic lawsuit successful my hometown and successful beforehand of my fans. Till had a bully UFC vocation but he's stepping into the boxing ringing now, against a due pro, and helium volition rapidly realise that helium is retired of his extent and this is not the crippled for him. I program connected dealing with Till successful conclusive manner and past chasing adjacent bigger fights successful 2025."

Throughout his UFC career, Till competed astatine 170lbs and 185lbs. That said, his upcoming showdown with Fury volition beryllium an eight-round contention successful the heavyweight division, according to The Stomping Ground’s Charlie Parsons. However, different reports suggest a 205lb catchweight bout.

Remarkably, the erstwhile MMA prima confirmed in an interrogation with Ariel Helwani that helium is presently weighing 253lbs - astir arsenic overmuch arsenic Tyson Fury's value for his clash with Oleksandr Usyk - arsenic good arsenic revealing that helium plans to proceed drinking intoxicant passim his mentation for the fight, aft stating that helium is not definite of the value for the showdown himself.

“They said a value and they asked maine if I could get to it, truthful I said ‘yeah’, said Till. "I don’t cognize [the weight]. Yeah, I was p***ed [drunk] past night, I was f*****g blathered to beryllium honorable with you. No, [I americium not going to halt drinking because] Tommy is that s*** that I don’t request to.”

In the property league earlier this week, Till had threatened to footwear Fury successful the look if helium was losing the fight. “At the extremity of the day, I can’t bushed you, I’ll conscionable footwear you successful the look successful there,” Till said. “How astir that? I’m a due fighter, not a boxer. I don’t locomotion successful a country similar this and spot boxing and go, ‘s***.’ I locomotion in, nary 1 present is simply a menace to me. Not 1 idiosyncratic successful this room, security, you, your dada are not a menace to me. I’m an MMA fighter, truthful if I privation to footwear you oregon elbow you successful the face, I will, and nary 1 tin bash thing astir it.”

Fury past deed back: "Well that's not going to hap is it Darren. Because we ain't successful the cage now, we're successful the boxingring and you're going to find retired that boxing is precise antithetic to MMA." However, Till continued: "Well it evidently is, however are you going to halt me? If I'm losing the fight, I'm going to footwear you consecutive successful the face. You won't cognize what's deed you."