Heavyweight Jared Anderson and his opponent Ryad Merhy weighed in at this time for his or her 10-round headliner this Saturday, April thirteenth, on the American Financial institution Heart (Corpus Christi, Texas). Anderson (16-0, 15 KOs) weighed 250.9 lbs, and Merhy (32-2, 26 KOs) weighed 235.6 lbs. The occasion shall be proven on ESPN, ESPN+, and ESPN Deportes at 10 p.m. ET/ 7 pm PT.

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Anderson’s Weight a Trigger for Concern

It’s troublesome to understand how the 24-year-old Anderson will look on this battle. He was harm a number of occasions in his battle towards veteran Charles Martin final 12 months, and his promoters at High Rank reacted by matching him towards a weaker opponent in his final battle.

Merhy is an entire unknown, which means that High Rank nonetheless doesn’t need to put Anderson in with anybody good for concern of him crumbling. They should do it will definitely as a result of they will’t proceed to child him endlessly.

Jared doesn’t appear to have the psychological make-up to go far within the sport, and High Rank’s persevering with to feed him weak opposition in hopes that he’ll enhance won’t assist.

Anderson’s weight might be a problem on this battle, as he’s 21 lbs heavier than he was in his final contest towards 40-year-old Andriy Rudenko final 12 months. He’s been consuming properly, and that might be a nasty factor for him if he can’t knock out Merhy.

Important Card weights

Jared Anderson 250.9 vs. Ryad Merhy 235.6
Efe Ajagba 241.2 vs. Guido Vianello 244.5
Robson Conceição 131.6 lbs vs. Jose Guardado 131.5

Preliminary Card weights

Julian Delgado 159.3 vs. Juan Tamez 159
Ruben Villa 125.6 vs. Cristian Cruz 125.1
John Rincon 143 vs. Yainel Alvarez 143.5
Abdullah Mason 134.6 vs. Ronal Ron 134.7
Charly Suarez 131.8 vs. Louie Coria 131.7
Jalen Walker 131.2 vs. Alejandro Guerrero 131.8
Ali Feliz 219.1 vs. Anthony Woodson III 280.2

Ajagba vs. Vianello: A Crossroads Battle

Heavyweight contender Efe Ajagba (19-1, 14 KOs) weighed 241.2 lbs for his ten-round battle towards 2016 Olympian Guido Vianello (12-1, 10 KOs), who weighed in at 244.5 lbs.

The truth that High Rank matches these two guys collectively suggests they could be seeking to see which one is value retaining. Each guys have suffered losses already, and it’s fairly clear that neither can win a world title.

Ajagba has enormous energy, however he lacks expertise and is a knockout ready to occur. Frank Sanchez taught Ajagba a boxing lesson in his one-sided 10-round unanimous choice in 2021.

The 29-year-old Ajagba has gained 4 fights since towards weak opposition. He doesn’t seem to have improved, although. Ajagba is profitable once more however solely as a result of High Rank is matching him towards the identical sort of fodder they have been feeding him earlier than his loss to Sanchez.