MANCHESTER, England – Jack Rafferty and Mark Chamberlain both comfortably made the 140-pound limit Friday ahead of their 12-round junior welterweight title fight.
Shaw’s
Rafferty (26-0, 17 KOs) has scored three consecutive stoppage victories since being signed by Queensberry Promotions last year and is intent on making a big impression in his first headline appearance. He tipped the scales at 139.5 pounds.
Chamberlain (17-1, 12 KOs) also weighed in at 139.5. The 26-year-old southpaw from Portsmouth will be keen to rediscover the exciting form that earned him the opportunity to perform on a number of Riyadh Season cards.
In the evening’s co-feature,
Zak Miller (16-1, 3 KOs) will defend his Commonwealth featherweight title over 12 rounds against Leicester’s
Leon Woodstock (16-4, 7 KOs).
A loud group of Miller fans made the short journey from Ashton to see their man step on the scale at 125.4 pounds. The intense Woodstock weighed 125.1.
The weights for the rest of the Rafferty-Chamberlain undercard are listed below.
Super flyweights, 10 rounds
Jack Turner (11-0, 10 KOs), 114.7 pounds, Liverpool
Nicolas Muguruza (11-0, 6 KOs), 114.4, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lightweights, 8 rounds
Nelson Birchall (8-0, 5 KOs), 132, Morecambe
Federico Pedraza (14-4-1, 2 KOs), to weigh in later today, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Junior middleweights, 8 rounds
Henry Turner (14-1, 6 KOs), 149.7, High Wycombe
Ivan Blazevic (8-1, 3 KOs),146.9, Mostar, Bosnia
Junior welterweights, 8 rounds
Steven Cairns (11-0, 7 KOs), 137, Cork, Ireland
Kirk Stevens (7-4-1), 136.2, Telford
Super middleweights, 6 rounds
Lewis Richardson (1-0), 160.9, Colchester, Essex
Artjom Spatar (5-16-1, 1 KO), 160.4, Narva, Estonia
Junior lightweights, 6 rounds
Charlie Senior (1-0), 129, Butler, Australia
Darwing Martinez (8-34-2, 6 KOs), 127.5, Managua, Nicaragua
Super middleweights, 6 rounds
Jack Power (5-0, 1 KO), 162.4, Runcorn
Dmitri Protkunas (8-22-1, 1 KO) 162.3, Narva, Estonia
Super middleweights, 6 rounds
Eoghan Lavin (5-0, 2 KOs), 162, Ballyhaunis, Ireland
Dzmitry Atrokhau (16-30, 7 KOs), 161.6, Gomel, Belarus
Super middleweights, 6 rounds
Stephen Clarke (6-0, 1 KO), 161, Liverpool
Joe Hardy (5-35), 163.6, Leeds