Miranda, Abraham Make Weight
By Uncategorized June 20th, 2008Unbeaten IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham weighed 166 pounds and Edison Miranda weighed 165 at Friday’s weigh-in at Hollywood, Fla.
In Saturday’s main event on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast), Abraham (26-0, 21 KOs) and Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs) will clash in an eagerly awaited rematch of a controversial fight Abraham won 21 months ago in Germany. The 12-round scrap will be contested at a catch weight of 166 pounds.
Undefeated middleweight Giovanni Lorenzo and Raul Marquez, who square off in the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature, weighed 160 pounds Friday. Lorenzo has a record of 26-0 with 19 knockouts, while Marquez is 41-3 with 29 KOs.