Usyk weighs career-heaviest before Verhoeven clash in Giza
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Key Points:
- Oleksandr Usyk weighed in at a career-heaviest 233.3 pounds ahead of his fight with Rico Verhoeven, who tipped the scales at 258.7 pounds, maintaining a 25-pound weight advantage.
- Usyk comes into the bout six pounds heavier than his previous win over Daniel Dubois, while Verhoeven is seven pounds lighter than his last kickboxing match defending his GLORY heavyweight belt.
- Other key weigh-ins include Hamzah Sheeraz and Alem Begic for the vacant WBO super middleweight title, Jack Catterall and Shakhram Giyasov for the WBA "regular" welterweight title, and Frank Sanchez and Richard Torrez in an IBF heavyweight eliminator.
- Mizuki Hiruta, the Ring and WBO junior bantamweight champion, weighed in slightly heavier for her seventh title defense against Mai Soliman, continuing her pursuit of unification bouts at 115 pounds.
- All fighters on the main card made weight without issues, setting the stage for highly anticipated championship and eliminator bouts across multiple weight divisions.