Josh Warrington v Luis Alberto Lopez: Champion weighs in heavier for title bout

Josh Warrington (left) came retired wearing a scarf successful Leeds United colours for the weigh-in

World champion Josh Warrington weighed successful heavier than Luis Alberto Lopez for their IBF featherweight rubric combat astatine Leeds Arena connected Saturday.

Mexican Lopez, 29, weighed 124.3lbs arsenic helium looks to upset Warrington, 32, successful beforehand of an expected assemblage of 9,000 successful the Leeds fighter's location city.

Both weighed successful beneath the 126lb limit.

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Warrington knocked retired Spain's Kiko Martinez earlier this twelvemonth to go two-time IBF featherweight champion, having antecedently held the rubric betwixt 2018 and January 2021.

He was cheered connected by a vocal assemblage astatine the weigh-in, which was held astatine the Aspire successful Leeds, and his location supporters are expected to erstwhile again supply a memorable ambiance connected Saturday.

Words were exchanged successful a feisty face-off, with some Warrington and Lopez looking supremely confident.

"Saturday nighttime volition beryllium wild, evidently with the shot arsenic well," said promoter Eddie Hearn, referencing the World Cup quarter-final lucifer betwixt England and France, which volition beryllium shown midway done the card.

"If you inquire a superior question - who wants it more? - you'd astir apt person to accidental Lopez due to the fact that helium has ne'er experienced it. However, Warrington doesn't privation to fto it go.

"What sits astatine the extremity of triumph for him is Elland Road, the City Ground, unifications, Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden - everything helium has ever dreamed of."

The main enactment combat connected Saturday sees Ebanie Bridges, 36, look to support her IBF bantamweight rubric against Shannon O'Connell, 39 successful what has been described arsenic the biggest pistillate combat successful Australian boxing history.

Bridges value successful astatine 117.75lbs for the eagerly anticipated contest, portion O'Connell was 117.35lbs.

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