Whyte and Franklin weigh in, drama ensues during glove selection.

At todays weigh in for the heavyweight double header scheduled for Wembley arena tomorrow night, former WBC world heavyweight title challenger Dillian Whyte, a distinct 10-1 favourite scaled 251 pounds whilst imported yet undefeated underdog Jermaine Franklin scaled a soft 257. Both men conducted themselves well at the weigh in and it looks like an intriguing battle of styles for the feature event.  The chief support features undefeated Fabio Wardley of Ipswich who scaled a solid 240 pounds for his British title challenge against the once beaten Nathan Gorman of Nantwich who tipped in at a whopping 271 pounds. Gorman appeared to struggle the sole time that he stepped up in class and is facing a man who seems to be moving on a fast-track making some bold statements along the way. Wardley is extremely confident and well conditioned whilst a lot could be said for the Manchester mans appearance.  Following a rather cordial weigh in both camps of the main event bout headed to the conference centre for the glove selection ceremony where high drama unfolded. Dillian Whyte’s representative chose two sealed packets of white, prepared gloves by the manufacturer Fly. Joshua the man selecting gloves for Dillian appeared happy with the gloves from the second packet and alerted the BBBC official to mark the, as selected for Whyte to use tomorrow night. The Franklin team didn’t appear to have any issues with this and were handed a selection of packages containing the gloves that they had requested. Jermaine and his team opened a pack of Black coloured gloves by the manufacturer ‘Loaded’ and agreed to use that pair after trying on the gloves. As this was taking place, the representative from team Whyte ‘Joshua’ checked the gloves which Franklin had chosen and alerted a BBBC official to the fact that the gloves appeared as though they were broken in or had been worn previously, something that is against the rules of the commission. Whyte then got himself involved and himself noticed that it appeared as if tape had been removed from the knuckle area and had left residue. Team Whyte made it very clear that they were opposed to Franklin wearing these particular gloves. A BBBC official made some enquiries as to where the gloves had been stored and whether or not they were in fact sealed from the manufacturers factory. Some verbal exchanges took place between the camps and Dmitri Salita the promoter for Franklin challenged team Whyte accusing them of trying to get under the underdogs skin and bad gamesmanship. In the midst of this Whyte made a comment directed at Jermaine’s trainer Jesse Addison stating “If he keeps talking he will get checked” Addison appeared infuriated at this comment and an exchange of words took place. Once this was diffused Whyte made an offer the resolve the situation saying that he’d have two identical pairs of Fly gloves sent from the factory that both parties could agree on. A BBBC official handed Franklin a pair of white and purple Fly gloves which Jermaine tried on, even though he had no solid opposition to the gloves he and his immediate team were now dead set of sticking to their guns in being allowed to use the gloves that they had requested as neither the promoter or the officials were in favour of backing team Whyte’s claims up regarding the gloves being tampered. Franklin and his team were eventually granted the opportunity to wear Black Loaded gloves whilst Whyte had stuck with the White pair by the Fly brand. It appears as though a touch of last minute mind games had been employed by team Whyte, which didn’t actually seem to phase the away fighter who continued to maintain his composure regardless.