Emanuel Navarrete and Ruben Villa made weight for their featherweight title fight Friday inside the MGM Grand “bubble” in Las Vegas.
Navarrete weighed 126.2 pounds on his first try — . 2 over the limit — but registered exactly 126 after stripping down. Villa weighed 125 the first time he stepped onto the scale.
They are fighting for the vacant WBO title.
The big-punching Navarrete (31-1, 27 KOs) is a former junior featherweight titleholder. This will be the Mexican’s second fight as a full-fledged featherweight.
Villa (18-0, 5 KOs) will be fighting for a major title for the first time. He’s from Salinas, Calif.
The main event and a middleweight bout between Janibek Alimkhanuly and Gonzalo Coria will be televised on ESPN. The remainder of the card will be streamed on ESPN+.
Here are the weights for the other fights on the card:
- Janibek Alimkhanuly (159.6) vs. Gonzalo Coria (158.6), middleweights.
- Elvis Rodriguez (141.5) vs. Cameron Krael (141.2), junior welterweights.
- Lorenzo Simpson (156) vs. Sonny Duversonne (154.8), middleweights.
- Bryan Lua (131.6) vs. Nelson Colon (131.6), lightweights.
- Rashiem Jefferson (123.8) vs. Steven Garagarza (123.5), junior featherweights.
- Kahshad Elliott (152.8) vs. Akeem Jackson (151.5), junior middleweights.
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