Erik Bazinyan, Shakeel Phinn Make Weight For ESPN+ Headliner In Montreal
Rising contender Erik Bazinyan and Shakeel Phinn were both comfortably inside the super middleweight limit.
Bazinyan, The Ring-rated No. 6 super middleweight, tipped the scales at 167 ½ pounds in defense of his NABF title.
The 28-year-old enters the contest with an unblemished record of 32-0, with 23 knockouts.
Quebec’s Phinn (26-3-1, 17 KOs) came in at 167.3 pounds. The weight was the lighest in five years for the former NABF titleholder.
Their scheduled ten-round bout airs live on ESPN+ this Thursday from Montreal Casino in Montreal, Canada. Coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. ET and is also carried on punchinggrace.com in Canada.
In the co-main event, Avery Martin Duval (10-0-1, 6 KOs) tipped the scales at 132.7, while his opponent Argentina’s Ezequiel Palaversic (8-2-1, 4 KOs) was 130.
Meanwhile, exciting junior lightweight Thomas Chabot (9-0, 7 KOs) weighed 131.3 and his opponent Alfredo Jimenez (5-1-1, 2 KOs) was a little heavier at 133.4.
Touted Colombian prospect Jhon Orobio (7-0, 7 KOs) weighed 139.3 and his opponent the experienced Christian Palma (33-14-2, 7 KOs) came in at 139.7.
Alexandre Gaumont (9-0, 6 KOs) came in at 157.7 and Abdallah Luanja (17-11-2, 12 KOs) was 154.5.
Moreno Fendero (4-0, 3 KOs) weighed 161, while Nicolas Luque Palacios (13-10-2, 2 KOs) came in at 160.8.
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