Shawn Porter and Sebastian Formella on Friday made weight for their welterweight fight behind closed doors Saturday at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The card will be televised on Fox.
Porter weighed 146.6 pounds, .4 under the limit. Formella weighed 146.
Porter started his career fighting mostly as a middleweight but dropped down to welterweight in 2010 and has fought primarily at that weight since. Coincidently, Formella also started as a 160-pounder and moved down two years ago.
Porter (30-3-1, 17 KOs) is coming off a riveting split-decision loss in September to Errol Spence Jr., who became a unified 147-pound champion.
Formella (22-0, 10 KOs) last fought in January, when he outpointed Roberto Arriaza in his native Germany.
Here are the weights of the other fighters on the card:
- Sebastian Fundora (14-0-1, 9 KOs) 153.2 pounds vs. Nathaniel Gallimore (21-4-1, 17 KOs) 152.6, 10 rounds, junior middleweights.
- Livan Navarro (11-0, 7 KOs) 147.8 vs. Justin DeLoach (18-4, 9 KOs) 149.9, 10 rounds, welterweights.
- Joey Spencer (10-0, 7 KOs) 155.8 vs. Shawn West (5-1, 3 KOs) 154.6, six rounds, middleweights.
- Justin Pauldo (13-1, 7 KOs) 136.6 vs. Josec Ruiz (21-3-3, 14 KOs) 136.6, eight rounds, junior welterweights.
- Edward Ortiz (10-0-2, 4 KOs) 163.4 vs. Antonio Todd (7-3, 4 KOs) 161, six/eight rounds, super middleweights.
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