Nine years after Joe Goodall edged Efe Ajagba in an amateur bout, not much separated the heavyweights again on the scale in Stateline, Nevada.
The 6-foot-6 Ajagba weighed in at 237.6 pounds for their 10-round fight Saturday night. The 6-foot-5 Goodall officially weighed 233.5 pounds for this rematch between familiar fighters who have sparred in recent years as well.
The battle between Nigeria’s Ajagba, 29, and Australia’s Goodall, 31, is the main event of a Top Rank card ESPN+ will stream from Tahoe Blue Event Center, which opened recently.
Goodall (10-1-1, 9 KOs) became the first fighter to stop St. Louis’ Stephan Shaw (18-2, 13 KOs) inside the distance in his last fight, which resulted in a sixth-round technical knockout July 22 at FireLake Arena in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Shaw went the distance with Ajagba in his previous bout, a 10-rounder Ajagba (18-1, 13 KOs) won by unanimous decision January 14 at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
The official weights for the 10 fights on the Ajagba-Goodall undercard are listed below.
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Raymond Muratalla (18-0, 15 KOs), Fontana, California, 134 pounds vs. Diego Torres (18-0, 17 KOs), Zapopan, Mexico, 134.8 pounds, 10 rounds, lightweights.
Christian Avalos (0-1-2), Carson City, Nevada, 134.5 pounds vs. Estevan Partida (1-1-1, 0 KOs), Merced, California, 134.6 pounds, 4 rounds, lightweights.
Brandon Moore (12-0, 8 KOs, 1 NC), Lakeland, Florida, 234.7 pounds vs. Robert Sims (12-3-1, 3 KOs), Saginaw, Michigan, 238.5 pounds, 8 rounds, heavyweights.
Lindolfo Delgado (18-0, 13 KOs), Monterrey, Mexico, 140.1 pounds vs. Luis Hernandez Ramos (23-3, 20 KOs), Chihuahua, Mexico, 140.3 pounds, 8 rounds, junior welterweights.
Henry Lebron (18-0, 10 KOs), Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 129.1 pounds vs. William Foster III (16-0, 10 KOs, 1 NC), New Haven, Connecticut, 129.4 pounds, 10 rounds, junior lightweights.
Antonio Mireles (8-0, 7 KOs), Des Moines, Iowa, 268.7 pounds vs. Skylar Lacy (7-0, 5 KOs), Indianapolis, 252.7 pounds, 6 rounds, heavyweights.
Omar Rosario (11-0, 3 KOs), Caguas, Puerto Rico, 140 pounds vs. Angel Rebollar (7-3, 3 KOs), Los Angeles, 137.8 pounds, 8 rounds, junior welterweights.
Charlie Sheehy (7-0, 5 KOs), Brisbane, California, 134.9 pounds vs. Jesus Vasquez Jr. (10-1, 2 KOs), Englewood, Colorado, 134.2 pounds, 6 rounds, lightweights.
Gabriel Garcia (9-0, 6 KOs), Antioch, California, 127.8 pounds vs. Joshua Montoya (6-3-2, 0 KOs), Lubbock, Texas, 127.6 pounds, 6 rounds, junior lightweights.
Javier Martinez (8-0-1, 2 KOs), Milwaukee, 161.8 pounds vs. Isaiah Wise (11-2-2, 6 KOs), Philadelphia, 160.8 pounds, 8 rounds, super middleweights.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.