QUEBEC CITY –Christian Mbilli and Sergiy Derevyanchenko each comfortably made weight forward of their anticipated crossroads bout.
Mibill (29-0, 23 knockouts), arrived at a ripped 167.4 kilos. Derevyanchenko (15-5, 10 KOs) was almost similar at 167.3 kilos.
Their scheduled ten-round bout headlines an ESPN telecast Saturday night, starting at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT from Centre Videotron in Quebec Metropolis, Canada.
Mbilli, rated No. 1 at 168 by The Ring, not too long ago stopped Mark Heffron in simply 40 seconds on Might 25 in Shawnigan, Canada. The win was his third straight inside the gap for the 2016 Olympic quarterfinalist for France.
A a lot stiffer problem is predicted from Derevyanchenko, a 2008 Olympian for Ukraine now primarily based in Brooklyn.
The 38-year-old former title challenger pushed Daniel Jacobs, Gennadiy Golovkin and Jaime Munguia to the brink in finally dropping efforts. He additionally fell brief in a title bid versus Jermall Charlo and in a Dec. 2021 upset defeat to Carlos Adames.
Arslanbek Makhmudov (left) and Guido Vianello (Photograph by Vincent Ethier)
Rebounding heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov (19-1, 18 KOs) tipped the scales at 260 kilos. He faces Italy’s Guido Vianello (12-2-1, 10 KOs), a 2016 Olympian who weighed 245.8 kilos.
Rising tremendous middleweight contender Osleys Iglesias (11-0, 10 KOs), No. 3 at 168, faces Ghana’s Sena Agbeko in a ten-round bout. Iglesias, a Cuban southpaw primarily based in Berlin, weighed 169.3 kilos. Agbeko (28-3, 22 KOs), who now lives in Antioch, Tennessee, was 168.7 kilos. Their contest was contracted at 170 kilos.
Osleys Iglesias (left) and Sena Agbeko (Photograph by Vincent Ethier)
Abdullah Mason (14-0, 12 KOs) fights for the fourth time this yr and second prior to now six weeks. The unbeaten Ohio native weighed 136 kilos, whereas Mike Ohan Jr. (19-2, 9 KOs) was 136.7 kilos. They meet in a scheduled eight-round light-weight battle.
Quebec’s Leila Beaudoin (11-1, 1 KO) was 129.7 kilos, whereas and Bolivian former title challenger Lizbeth Crespo (15-7, 4 KOs) weighed 129.2 kilos. Their junior light-weight bout is scheduled for ten two-minute rounds.
Promising 24-year-old southpaw Thomas Chabot (10-0, 8 KOs) and Argentina’s Matias Ezequiel Guenemil (10-3-1, 5 KOs) every weighed 128.6 kilos. Their junior light-weight combat is scheduled for eight rounds.
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