Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk – Undisputed Championship LIVE: Ring walk times, undercard results and round-by-round updates as unified champion can be crowned for first time in 24 years

…and spoke to the great and good of the boxing world in the build-up to tonight’s showpiece event.

Usyk’s proud compatriot Wladimir Klitschko speaks below on the geopolitical importance of this fight.

Tyson being Tyson? Or a man marked with just over 24 hours to go?

Fans on social media watched the weigh-in fracas with gimlet eyes and came out strongly on Team Usyk. A man of few words, composure is the Ukrainian’s modus operandi, and it didn’t take much for him to maintain his ice cube status alongside foul-mouthed Fury.

Of course, I do not accept total psychological collapse. But it’s always exciting to see fire meet ice.

A slimmed down Tyson Fury proved he wasn’t completely gone, weighing in at 262 pounds.

But that’s still 39 pounds heavier than his Ukrainian opponent, who came in at his heaviest weight of his career at 223 pounds.

That’s not what most people thought, however, after Michael Buffer incorrectly called him 233 pounds – with many eyebrows raised in mild approval – only for the weight to be corrected in the viral images. .

You can see it for yourself below.

After a cool and composed press conference the day before, things seemed eerily primed for any fight buildup featuring a certain Tyson Fury. That is, until he reached his final confrontation with Usyk.

The last time the two had attempted to look and stare at each other, Fury had looked away, prompting some to suggest he was shaken. That wasn’t the case Friday night, when the Gypsy King was more than happy to get up close and personal.

You can watch the tension build below and read all the details of what exactly Fury is looking to do to the ‘little f*****’ tonight in our weigh-in report.

Saudi Arabia has hosted a number of big nights of boxing over the past eight months, since Riyadh’s season-opening showdown between Fury and Francis Ngannou, but tonight’s showing simply blows the rest out of the water.

But what time do things start, and who else could be in for the fight of their life? And if you want to watch the fight while following our live coverage, where can you do that?

For this information and much more, all will be revealed via the link below.

Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s live coverage of all the build-up ahead of the big event: Tyson Fury’s showdown with Oleksandr Usyk to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

We’re a long way from the historic fight – ring walks are planned in around 11am, at 11pm BST, but that may well prove to be spurious timing – but there’s plenty to catch up on. between yesterday and today.