Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Artur Beterbiev made weight for one of the year’s most anticipated showdowns, a light heavyweight title unification bout and lineal championship heat which takes place Friday evening live on ESPN from the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ukraine’s Gvozdyk hit the scales at a fighting fit 174.3 pounds; Beterbiev—a Russia-born knockout artist of Chechen descent who now lives in Montreal, Canada—checked in at 174.5 pounds.
WEIGHTS
Oleksandr Gvozdyk 174.3 lbs vs. Artur Beterbiev 174.5 lbs
(WBC/IBF Light Heavyweight world titles – 12 Rounds)
Luis Collazo 146.4 lbs vs. Kudratillo Abdukakhorov 147.1 lbs
(Welterweight – 10 Rounds)
