We have ourselves a massive heavyweight showdown in Ipswich on Saturday after the weigh-in took place for Fabio Wardley vs Justis Huni.
The two fighters got onto the scales in the town’s city centre on Friday, just over 24 hours before they will do battle for the WBA interim heavyweight title. The winner becoming mandatory challenger for the belt currently held by the great Oleksandr Usyk.
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Wardley (18-0-1) came in at 243lbs (17st 5lbs) – just a couple of pounds heavier than he had been for his last fight, that devastating one-round knockout of Frazer Clarke in Riyadh last October.
Huni (12-0) meanwhile scaled a career high 248lbs – seven pounds higher than for his last outing, a second-round stoppage of Shaun Potgieter in January.
Undercard weights
The bouts on the undercard are also now official after Friday’s weigh-in:
Definitely figuring are the following bouts:
12×3 – EBU junior-welterweight title
Pierce O’Leary (139.5 lbs) vs Liam Dillon (139.8 lbs)
10×3 – heavyweight
Nelson Hysa (255 lbs) vs Patrick Korte (239 lbs)
10×3 – cruiserweight
Mike Perez (198 lbs) vs Steven Ward (199 lbs)
8×3 – middleweight
Sam Gilley (160.8 lbs) vs Gideon Onyenani (159.1 lbs)
8×3 – junior lightweight
Umar Khan (127.15lbs) vs Moises garcia (129.13lbs)
6×3 – middleweight
Lewis Richardson (159.15 lbs) vs Dmitri Protkunas (159.12 lbs)
6×3 – lightweight
Billy Adams (133.8 lbs) vs Alexander Morales (132.9 lbs)
6×2 – junior lightweight
Lillie Winch (128.1 lbs) vs Katerina Dvorakova (127.1 lbs)
4×3 – featherweight
Jack Williams (120.14 lbs) vs Fernando Joaquin Valdez (126.1 lbs)
How to watch live
Ring walks for the main event are expected to start around 10pm local time on Saturday (June 7), which is 11pm CET. If you are watching in the US the start time is 5pm Eastern, or 2pm Pacific on the West Coast.
The show will be streamed live globally by DAZN – it is not a PPV affair so there will be no extra cost for existing subscribers.
