Both main contenders weighed exactly the same weight.
Montana Love and Steve Spark meet in the main event of an event in Cleveland tonight, with the co-main bout also including a matchroom debut for Richardson Hitchins at super lightweight where the Brooklyn talent faces Yomar Alamo for the North American title IBF.
Montana Love returns to the place where his breakout performance took place.
The previously undefeated junior welterweight of Eddie Hearn’s boxing team enjoys his first televised main fight when he faces Australian Steve Spark at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Love’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio this Saturday. Love and Spark both weighed 150 pounds each at yesterday’s official weigh-in, at the junior welterweight limit, for their scheduled 12-round U.S. regional title bout. The match will be broadcast live on DAZN from Saturday evening to Sunday morning.
Previously unbeaten (18-0-1, 9 KOs) Montana Love earned a seventh-round knockout victory over former IBF world champion Ivan Baranchyk in his previous home appearance of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The fight took place on August 29 on the undercard of Jake Paul against Tyron Woodley, after which Love signed an exclusive promoter deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing.
This is what the two main contenders weighed in the balance yesterday:
Mountain love ……………………. 63.5 kilo
Steve Spark ………………………… 63.5 Kilo
The video of the official weigh-in
