NEW YORK —
Richardson Hitchins and
George Kambosos Jr. briefly went nose to nose Friday, a day after they were kept separated during their press conference at Madison Square Garden.
Their weigh-in was a lot less eventful, as Hitchins stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission’s scale at 140 pounds, slightly more than Kambosos, who officially weighed 139.4 for their 12-round, 140-pound title fight Saturday night in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) will make his
first defense of the IBF junior welterweight title he won six months ago when he boxes Kambosos (22-3, 10 KOs).
DAZN will stream Hitchins-Kambosos as the main event of a seven-bout card. Undercard coverage is set to start on DAZN at 6:30 p.m. ET (11:30 p.m. GMT).
Lightweight contenders
Andy Cruz and
Hironori Mishiro made weight for the 12-round co-feature a few minutes before Brooklyn’s Hitchins and Australia’s Kambosos stepped on stage.
Cuba’s Cruz (5-0, 2 KOs) weighed in exactly at the lightweight limit of 135 pounds, a little heavier than Japan’s Mishiro (17-1-1, 6 KOs), who weighed 134.6.
Their IBF lightweight elimination bout will determine its No. 1 contender for champion Raymond Muratalla (23-0, 17 KOs).
Cruz is ranked third by the IBF, two spots ahead of Mishiro. The No. 1 position in the IBF’s lightweight rankings is unoccupied.
The weights for the rest of the Hitchins-Kambosos undercard:
Heavyweights, 6 rounds
Teremoana Teremoana (7-0, 7 KOs), 265.6 pounds, Brisbane, Australia
Aleem Whitfield (9-0, 6 KOs), 246.2, Geneva, New York
Junior middleweights, 8 rounds
Pablo Valdez (9-0, 8 KOs), 152.4, Manhattan, New York
NOTE: Valdez’s scheduled opponent, Peru’s Cesar Diaz (9-1, 4 KOs), did not weigh in
Junior lightweights, 6 rounds
Zaquin Moses (3-0, 2 KOs), 129.2, Newark, New Jersey
Carl Rogers (3-2), 129.6, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Middleweights, 4 rounds
Nishant Dev (1-0, 1 KO), 154.4, Karnal, India
Josue Silva (3-2, 1 KO), 155.2, Mexico
Junior featherweights, 4 rounds
Adam Maca (pro debut), 119.2, Brighton, England
Rafael Castillo (2-6, 1 KO), 120, Bronx, New York
Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing