Welterweight Alexis Roach weighed in at 146.4 lbs, and Raul Curiel got here in 146.6 kilos on Friday on the weigh-in for his or her 12-round headliner this Saturday, December 14th, on the Toyota Middle in Ontario, California. The occasion shall be proven reside on DAZN starting at 5:00 p.m. ET.
(Credit score: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda)
Welterweight contenders Rocha (25-2, 16 KOs) and Curiel (15-0, 13 KOs) shall be squaring off for what is anticipated to be a battle on this Golden Boy-promoted card. Rocha, 27, is seeking to decide up his third consecutive victory since being stopped within the sixth spherical by Giovani Santillan on October 21, 2023, in Inglewood, California.
Rocha bounced again from that loss in his final struggle, beating beforehand unbeaten Santiago Dominguez by a one-sided 10-unanimous determination on July nineteenth in Indio, California.
“I’ve educated very arduous for this struggle. I do know this struggle can open all of the doorways for a world title shot, and that’s my dream,” mentioned Curiel. “This struggle is for Mexico; it’s for all my individuals who have my again and help me. I do know I’m going to win. This camp was an incredible one, and I’m in the perfect form of my profession.”
Within the chief help weights, junior middleweight contender Charles Conwell (20-0, 15 KOs) weighed 153.8 lbs, and his opponent Gerardo Vergara (2-0, 13 KOs) weighed 152.8 lbs.
Tremendous flyweight John “Scrappy” Ramirez (13-1, 9 KOs) got here in at 114.6 lbs, and his opponent Ephram Bui (10-0, 8 KOs) weighed in at 111.3 lbs. Scrappy, 28, is coming off a large 12-round unanimous determination loss to David Jimenez (16-1, 11 KOs) on April twentieth on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn, New York.
That was a shock loss to Ramirez as a result of many had anticipated him to defeat Jimenez going into it, however he wasn’t aggressive towards the Costa Rican fighter. What made the defeat worse was the variety of eyeballs that noticed the struggle as a result of it was on the undercard of Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia.
Weights:
Alexis Rocha 146.4 vs. Raul Curiel 146.6Charles Conwell 153.8 vs. Gerardo Vegara 152.8John ‘Scrappy’ Ramirez 114.6 vs. Ephraim Bui 113.8Marlen Esparza 114 vs. Arley Mucino 111.8
