Tyson Fury will be only just more than ten pounds heavier than Dillian Whyte for their WBC heavyweight clash as he weighed his lightest for a fight since facing Otto Wallin in 2019. 

Fury weighed 264 pounds 13 ounces, well below what he scaled for his last two fights with Deontay Wilder, indicating that he may look to be light on his feet for the fight, rather than meet Whyte head on. 

Whyte scaled 253¼ pounds.

The pair got on the scales of Friday at Wembley Boxpark in the shadow of Wembley Stadium where the pair will meet on Saturday night in front of a European record crowd of 94,000. 

After being very pally at Wednesday’s press conference, there was more of the same between the boxers and their camps. 

As they first squared up for the face-off, Fury kept a straight face until Whyte began getting on his toes to make up the height disadvantage. The pair then hugged and even exchanged baseball caps. 

By the time they posed for pictures, they were both dancing along to the music. 

“Unbelievable, come on UK,” Fury shouted to the crowd. “I’m so happy to be back here fighting at Wembley Stadium and you people made it happen. Every one of you made it happen. 

“I want to give a shout out and respect to Dillian Whyte and his team, proper professional men and we are going to f----- real fight, don’t doubt us. We are going to put a show on like no other before, it’s going to be a war.” 

Whyte said he did not read anything into Fury's lighter weight but said people should not be deceived by the pair being too friendly. 

“Don’t let any of this fool you, we are ready to go to war," Whyte said. “I’m not worried about what he is doing, I am worrying about what I have to do. We trained hard, I'm ready, so let’s go.” 

The unbeaten Ekow Essuman will have a slight weight advantage as he makes the second defence of his British and Commonwealth welterweight titles against in the chief support. Essuman weighed 146½ pounds, while Tetley was 145¾ pounds. 

The fight was switched from York Hall next weekend after Anthony Cacace’s opponent, Jonathan Romero, failed to get a visa. 

Ron Lewis is a senior writer for BoxingScene. He was Boxing Correspondent for The Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 - covering four Olympic Games and numerous world title fights across the globe. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.