Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr are formally set for Saturday night time’s three-belt gentle heavyweight title unification, with each fighters making weight at the moment in New York.
Beterbiev (18-0, 18 KO) got here in on the restrict of 175 lbs, with Smith (28-3, 22 KO) weighing in at 174.6.
Beterbiev shall be defending the WBC and IBF titles, whereas Smith has the WBO belt. The WBA belt, in fact, is held by Dmitry Bivol, who has stated he’d wish to have an undisputed championship struggle, however that may have to wait a long while.
The primary assist struggle on the undercard can be set, as Robeisy Ramirez (9-1, 5 KO) and Abraham Nova (21-0, 15 KO) made weight for his or her 10-round featherweight matchup, which is an abnormally intriguing High Rank “co-feature” struggle, to be sincere.
Ramirez got here in at 125.8, with Nova at 125.4, so each only a bit underneath the 126 lb restrict.
Unhealthy Left Hook can have dwell protection for Beterbiev vs Smith together with round-by-round updates beginning at 10 pm ET on Saturday, June 18. There may even be prelims protection starting at 6:30 pm ET, streaming dwell on ESPN+.
