By Elliot Foster
Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook each made weight for the IBF’s on-the-day weigh-in.
The pair, who will clash for ‘GGG’s’ WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight world titles at London’s O2 Arena, exclusively live on Sky Sports Box Office, tonight, were inside the 10-pound limit.
After weighing in at the Indigo at the O2 yesterday, in front of the world’s media and a crowd of excited fans, inside the middleweight limit, Golovkin and Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) had to watch their weights ahead of this morning’s check-weigh.
Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs), who came in at 159lbs on Friday, added 8.8lbs to his weight as he tipped at 167.8lbs this morning.
‘The Special One’, on the other hand, was heavier than Golovkin yesterday and weighed in bang-on the super-middleweight limit of 168lbs when he got on the scales at the hotel.
Meanwhile, Lee Haskins (33-3, 14 KOs) and Stuart Hall (20-4-2, 7 KOs) were within the 10-pound rehydration limit with the IBF as they contest the former’s bantamweight crown.
Bristol’s ‘Playboy’ Haskins was a pound under the 118lb limit yesterday as he came in at 8st 5lbs, to which he added six pounds overnight as he scaled 123lbs this morning, while ‘Stuey’, a former custodian of the belt, tipped the scales at 127.6lbs, which was an increase of 9.6lbs on the limit, which he was two pounds lighter than yesterday.
And both Johnriel Casimero (22-3, 14 KOs) and Charlie Edwards (8-0, 3 KOs), who vie for the Filipino’s IBF flyweight crown, weighed 122lbs and 120lbs, respectively, this morning, after each tipped the scales at 111lbs –– a pound under the eight-stone flyweight limit –– on Friday.
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