Vito Mielnicki Jr. and Kamil Gardzielik both weighed in at 159.5 pounds Friday afternoon for their 10-round middleweight fight Saturday night.
ESPN+ will stream the bout between Mielnicki (20-1-1, 12 KOs), of Roseland, New Jersey, and Gardzielik (19-0, 4 KOs), of Warsaw, Poland, from Prudential Center in Newark.
Mielnicki, 23, fought to a 10-round majority draw with Northern Ireland’s Connor Coyle (21-0-1, 9 KOs) in his last fight February 14 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Gardzielik, 32, won his most recent bout by majority decision November 16 at KGHM Sleza Arena in Wroclaw, Poland. He defeated Poland’s Lukasz Barabasz (4-17, 2 KOs) in that six-rounder.
The weights for the rest of the Mielnicki-Gardzielik undercard are listed below:
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Middleweights, 10 rounds
Lorenzo Simpson (15-2, 9 KOs), 159.5 pounds, Baltimore
Jahi Tucker (14-1-1, 6 KOs), 160 pounds, Deer Park, New York
Heavyweights, 10 rounds
Damian Knyba (15-0, 9 KOs), 254.5 pounds, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Marcin Siwy (25-0-1, 12 KOs), 244 pounds, Czestochowa, Poland
Welterweights, 8 rounds
Brandun Lee (29-0, 23 KOs), 143 pounds, Yuba City, California
Elias Damian Araujo (22-5, 9 KOs), 142 pounds, Rufino, Argentina
Junior middleweights, 8 rounds
Dwyke Flemmings Jr. (10-0, 9 KOs), 154 pounds, Paterson, New Jersey
Demian Fernandez (15-6, 5 KOs), 154 pounds, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Light heavyweights, 4 rounds
Arjan Iseni (3-0, 3 KOs), 175 pounds, Staten Island, New York
Kaine Tomlinson Jr. (1-0, 1 KO), 175 pounds, Lynchburg, Virginia
Junior featherweights, 4 rounds
Lisandra Contreras (pro debut), 121 pounds, Passaic, New Jersey
Montana Weems (1-0, 1 KO), 124 pounds, Rogersville, Tennessee
Heavyweights, 6 rounds
Norman Neely (15-1, 10 KOs), 249.5 pounds, Paterson, New Jersey
James Willis (6-1-1, 5 KOs), 262.5 pounds, Roanoke, Virginia
Welterweights, 4 rounds
Muadh Abdus-Salaam (pro debut), 144 pounds, Piscataway, New Jersey
Roberto Cantos (1-3), 145.5 pounds, Orange, Virginia
Junior middleweights, 4 rounds
Kahshad Elliott (4-0, 2 KOs), 154 pounds, Plainfield, New Jersey
Titus Ashe (1-0, 1 KO), 153 pounds, Baltimore
Cruiserweights, 4 rounds
Jamar Talley (2-0, 2 KOs), 197.5 pounds, Camden, New Jersey
Kurt Fleming (3-0, 2 KOs), 204.5 pounds, Lynchburg, Virginia
Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.