The official weigh-in from Los Angeles
Golden Boy Promotions can finally move on to fight night taking place tonight at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.
This weekend’s DAZN show saw several changes, with the main fight and co-feature bouts swapping places after designated main contender, welterweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. (18-0-0, 18KO victories). had to pull out of his fight after being hospitalized a week ago. Dominating now are the other welterweights: Alexis Rocha (18-1-0, 12 KO’s) and Blair ‘The Flair’ Cobbs (15-0-1, 10 KO’s), who will compete at the ‘Galen Center of USC’ on Saturday night meet in Los Angeles in a ten-round bout.
Santa Ana, California native Alexis Rocha tipped the scales at the exact welterweight limit at yesterday’s official weigh-in at 150 pounds before looking to continue his winning streak tonight in the main event. Philadelphia native Blair ‘The Flair’ Cobbs – who now lives in Las Vegas and trains at Hollywood’s Wild Card Boxing Club – weighed 150 pounds.
Both fighters wanted to verbally attack each other during the press conference before the fight on Thursday and also almost actively on Friday afternoon at the official weigh-in. But little more than words were exchanged as the two were immediately separated by security.
The fight advanced to the main event after Ortiz was pulled out of his scheduled 12-round welterweight bout with England’s Michael McKinson. The aftermath made for a frustrating week of fights for McKinson as this is his third scheduled opponent to miss just before the fight.
Below are the pairings and weights for the rest of the DAZN undercard, which begins at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. local time:
10 rounds at light heavyweight
Bektemir Melikuziev (77.8 Kilos) vs. Shoimbek David Zegarra (78 Kilo)
6 rounds at welterweight
Evan Anthony Sanchez (67.9 Kilos) vs. Alejandro Munera (66.9 Kilo)
8 rounds at junior featherweight
Ramla Ali (55.5 Kilo) vs. Shelly Barnett (54.9 Kilo)
6 rounds at bantamweight
John Ramirez vs. Robert Pucheta
6 rounds at junior welterweight
Alejandro Reyes vs. Daniel Evangelista Jr.
4 rounds at lightweight
Miguel Gaona vs. Gilberto Aguilar
4 rounds at lightweight
Dalis Kaleiopu vs. Manuel Lara
The official weigh-in from Los Angeles in the video
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