Tyson Fury v Otto Wallin: linear heavyweight championship – live! | sport

Emanuel Navarrete has just defended his junior featherweight WBO title with a fourth-round TKO of Juan Miguel Elorde in the final preliminary round. The Mexico City fighter, who was playing his second title in four weeks and his third title since May, dropped the grandson of Filipino legend Flash Elorde, with a second in the third minute.

This means that Fury and Wallin should be marching imminently.

Here's how Fury and Wallin compare themselves before tonight's main event. The Swede is pretty much a 10-1 outsider in the competition, a nod to Fury's top class, as well as his strengths in terms of reach and height.

Jose Zepeda has just won a unanimous decision over former two-division champion Jose Pedraza to spoil his junior welterweight career at Pedraza. The three judges have scored 97-93 for the southpaw of California, just like the Guardian. The final cardboard bout of the night is as follows: WBO Junior World Featherweight Champion Emanuel Navarrete defends his title against Juan Miguel Elorde. After that, Fury and Wallin will make their entrance.

Good evening and welcome tonight's heavyweight clash between Tyson Fury and Otto Wallin at T-Mobile Arena. The Gypsy King is back on the Las Vegas Strip for the second time in four months, following the bursting of June's hopeless Tom Schwarz at MGM Grand in the first fight of his promotion contract with Top Rank. The unannounced Wallin, who is undefeated in 21 professional fights against a near-unknown opposition, should not do more to counter the resistance. But everyone is dreaming after the shock caused by Anthony Joshua by Andy Ruiz Jr earlier this year and by the valiant Swede wishing nothing more than to stir up the echoes of Ingemar Johansson and mess up Fatch's plans. a rematch with Deontay Wilder, who was already scoring the goal next year.

Fury (28-0-1, 20 KOs) ended the reign of Wladimir Klitschko four years ago. In Germany, he presented his title with a sad but effective performance. mental illness and inflated from 260 lbs to almost 400 lbs. Nowadays, the official heavyweight titles belong to Wilder, who owns the WBC version of the championship since 2015, and to Ruiz Jr, who has captured Joshua's WBA, WBO and IBF straps. Yet, one could argue that Fury's claim to becoming the best heavyweight in the world is the purest as a linear champion: the so-called man who beat the man who beat man.

Tonight marks Fury's fifth "defense" of that nominal title he won at Klitschko. It is at its lowest weight since that night in Düsseldorf, at 254.4 pounds at yesterday's weigh-in. That's down 263.5 pounds against Schwarz in June, 256.5 pounds against Wilder in December, 258 pounds against Francisco Pianeta last August, and 276 pounds against Sefer Seferi in June 2018 in his fight back.

Wallin (20-0 with 1 NC, 13 KO) had a lot of ups and downs during his brief stay in America. Showtime was trying to make it evolve earlier in the year as a potential Wilder opponent, highlighting it in the co-feature of the Claressa Shields-Christina Hammer card in Atlantic City, but he was forced to content with a no-contest. The debut in the United States after the opponent Nick Kisner's attack in the first round of the 10-round scheduled round resulted in a head injury. Then a July appointment with porter BJ Flores was announced on the day of the bout when it was revealed that Flores had been denied a license after medical exams. But what seemed like a difficult year for Wallin turned around hurriedly when he tried Fury. It remains to be seen if the opportunity is too early for the Swedish candidate, who has never been with an opponent of the Fury class.

The fighters should do their sidewalks about an hour from now. Much more to come here.