LAS VEGAS —
Undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue and Ramon Cardenas made the 122-pound limit during their weigh-in ceremony Saturday at MGM Grand ahead of their
Sunday night matchup to headline a Top Rank on ESPN card at T-Mobile Arena.
Inoue, The Ring, WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF champion, weighed 121.9 pounds before getting draped with all of his belts; Cardenas tipped the scales at 121.8.
In the co-main event, WBO featherweight champion Rafael Espinoza (26-0, 22 KOs) takes on Edward Vazquez (17-2, 4 KOs). Both made weight as well.
Espinoza was 125.4 pounds and Vazquez was 125.6 pounds.
The ESPN broadcast is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET/7 PT — after Inoue's Japanese countryman and baseball star Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Atlanta Braves.
The rest of the weights for the action that will take place on ESPN+ beginning at 6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 PT:
- Rohan Polanco (15-0, 10 KOs) — 146.2 pounds
Fabian Maidana (24-3, 18 KOs) — 146 pounds
10 rounds, welterweight
- Ra'eese Aleem (21-1, 12 KOs) — 125.6 pounds
Rudy Garcia (13-1-1, 2 KOs) — 125.3 pounds
10 rounds, featherweight
- Mikito Nakano (12-0, 11 KOs) — 125.9 pounds
Pedro Marquez Medina (16-1, 10 KOs) — 126 pounds
10 rounds, featherweight
- Emiliano Vargas (13-0, 11 KOs) — 138.7 pounds
Juan Leon (11-2-1, 2 KOs) — 139.9 pounds
8 rounds, junior welterweight
- Art Barrera Jr. (8-0, 6 KOs) — 152.7 pounds
Juan Carlos Guerra Jr. (6-1-1, 2 KOs) — 153.7 pounds
6 rounds, junior middleweight
- Patrick O'Connor (Pro debut) — 196.1 pounds
Marcus Smith (2-1, 2 KOs) — 188 pounds
4 rounds, cruiserweight
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