Terence Crawford, David Avanesyan make weight for Saturday’s fight

Welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford and David Avanesyan on Friday made weight for their pay-per-view fight Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska, Crawford’s hometown.

Crawford weighed 146.6, .4 below the division limit. Avanesyan came in at 146.8.

Crawford (38-0, 29 K0s) will be making the sixth defense of the WBO belt he won by stopping Jeff Horn in nine rounds in 2018.

Boxing Junkie’s No. 1 fighter pound-for-pound is coming off the most important victory of his career, a 10th-round knockout of former titleholder Shawn Porter in November of last year.

Crawford was expected to fight Errol Spence Jr. but moved on to Avanesyan when negotiations broke down.

Avanesyan (29-3-1, 17 K0s) is coming off a first-round knockout of Oskari Metz in March, the U.K.-based Russian’s sixth consecutive victory.

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