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Sebastian Fundora and Ermal Hadribeaj both make weight for Saturday's WBC title fight in Las Vegas
WBC 154-pound champion Sebastian Fundora weighed 152.8 and unbeaten challenger Ermal Hadribeaj 152.4 for Saturday's main event at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Both fighters are set for Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Sebastian Fundora weighed 152.8 pounds and Ermal Hadribeaj 152.4 at Friday's official weigh-in. Both were under the 154-pound limit for Fundora's WBC super welterweight title.
The champion
Fundora (24-1-1 with 16 knockouts) is 28 and stands 6-foot-6. The southpaw is making his fourth defense of the title. His last fight was a sixth-round technical knockout of former unified champion Keith Thurman on March 28.
"I'm very comfortable making weight," he said Thursday. "I ate breakfast today."
The challenger
Hadribeaj (23-0-1 with 8 knockouts) is 32. He earned his mandatory shot with a unanimous decision over Bakary Samake in Germany. A win would make him the first world boxing champion from Albania.
What comes next
A win would move Fundora closer to a possible unification fight with the winner of Jaron "Boots" Ennis against Josh Kelly.
The card at The Cosmopolitan airs on TNT and truTV in the US starting at 7 p.m. Central. The co-main event is Brandon Figueroa against Tomoki Kameda after Figueroa lost his WBA belt on the scale.
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