Super middleweight titleholder Callum Smith and mandatory challenger John Ryder made weight Friday for their fight Saturday at Echo Arena in Smith’s hometown of Liverpool, England on DAZN.
Both Smith and Ryder weighed in at 167.4, .6 under the 168-pound limit.
Smith (26-0, 19 knockouts) won his title by a seventh-round knockout of countryman George Groves in the World Boxing Super series final in September of last year. He has only had one fight since then, a third-round stoppage of Hassan N’Dam in June on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Andy Ruiz Jr. in New York City.
Ryder (28-4, 16 KOs) has won four consecutive fights since his split-decision loss to Rocky Fielding in 2017. In his last fight, he stopped Bilal Akkawy inside three rounds in May on the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs undercard.