The curious career of
Khalil Coe took another disturbing turn Friday in Las Vegas.
Coe came in almost eight pounds overweight for his 10-round light heavyweight fight against
Jesse Hart scheduled for Saturday night. Philadelphia’s Hart met his contractual obligation by weighing in at 174.6 pounds, but Coe stunningly stepped on the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s scale at 182.8 pounds.
An irate Hart shoved Coe when they were posed face to face. The two-time super middleweight championship challenger agreed nonetheless to move forward with their co-feature on the
Raymond Muratalla-Andy Cruz undercard at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Coe (10-1-1, 8 KOs), of Jersey City, New Jersey, was scheduled to face Hart (31-3, 25 KOs) on October 11 at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Hart’s hometown of Philadelphia.
Coe sustained a hand injury late in training camp, though, which caused a three-month postponement.
The 29-year-old Coe avenged his lone loss in his last bout by
stopping Mexico’s Manuel Gallegos (22-3-1, 19 KOs) in the sixth round May 30 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Gallegos dropped Coe four times and upset him by ninth-round TKO in Coe’s previous bout, which took place in November 2024 in Philadelphia.
Coe, who was a touted amateur, previously settled for a shocking four-round majority draw with huge underdog Aaron Casper in Coe’s second professional fight four years ago.
Muratalla (23-0, 17 KOs), of Fontana, California, and Cuba’s Cruz (6-0, 3 KOs) both made weight for DAZN’s 12-round main event Saturday night.
Muratalla, who will make the first defense of his IBF lightweight title, officially weighed 134.6 pounds, slightly more than Cruz (134.4). Cruz, a 2021 Olympic gold medalist, is the mandatory challenger for Muratalla’s championship.
DAZN’s undercard coverage is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.