Maurice Hooker and Alex Saucedo have made weight one day before fighting for the WBO junior welterweight title on ESPN.
Hooker weighed at the 140-pound limit while Saucedo was comfortably more than half a pound under. The two will have the sole fight on the Top Rank card on ESPN airing tonight at midnight ET. This will be Hooker's first world title defense since winning the title earlier this year, but it will be the first title fight for him in the United States.
But the two junior welterweights aren't the only fighters competing. Right before Hooker and Saucedo step into the ring, ESPN+ will stream the entire undercard, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Below are the official weights for all the fights taking place tonight. Weights are shown in pounds in parenthesis:
- Maurice Hooker (140 lbs.) vs. Alex Saucedo (139.4 lbs.): WBO junior welterweight world title
- Egidijus Kavaliauskas (146.6 lbs.) vs. Roberto Arriaza (146.8 lbs.): NABF and WBO Intercontinental welterweight titles
- Cletus Seldin (141.4 lbs.) vs. Nelson Lara (142.4 lbs.)
- Jonathan Guzman (122.6 lbs.) vs. Roberto Castaneda (122.8 lbs.)
- Albert Bell (132.4 lbs.) vs. (Carlos Padilla 132.4 lbs.)
- Trevor McCumby (172.6 lbs.) vs. Felipe Romero (172.4 lbs.)
- Tyler Howard (161 lbs.) vs. Isiah Seldon (160.8 lbs.)
- Aaron Morales (117.4 lbs.) vs. Francisco Lapizco (118.2 lbs.)
- Rasheen Brown (120.6 lbs.) vs. Sebastian Baltazar (120.6 lbs.)
- Paul Kroll (149.6 lbs.) vs. Travis Conley (147.4 lbs.)
Hooker spoke to Fightful weeks before the fight and the full interview can be seen in the video above.
