The super middleweight who wants to challenge Canelo Alvarez next and the 168-pound contender who lost his last fight to Alvarez made weight Friday for their own showdown Saturday night.
Jaime Munguia got on the Arizona Boxing & MMA Commission’s scale at 167.8 pounds for their 12-round main event at Footprint Center in Phoenix. His opponent, British southpaw John Ryder, came in at exactly the same weight, 167.8 pounds.
DAZN will stream Munguia-Ryder as the main event of a five-fight stream scheduled to start at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT).
Most sportsbooks list Tijuana’s Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) as a 3-1 favorite to defeat London’s Ryder (32-6, 18 KOs), who lost a 12-round unanimous decision to Alvarez last May 6 at Akron Stadium in Zapopan, Mexico. Munguia will fight for the first time since his action-packed 12-round, unanimous-decision victory over Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko (14-5, 10 KOs) last June 10 at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California.
Munguia-Derevyanchenko was voted “Fight of the Year” by BoxingScene.com for 2023.
DAZN
8 p.m. ET; 5 p.m. PT
Oscar Collazo (8-0, 6 KOs), Villalba, Puerto Rico, 105 pounds vs. Reyneris Gutierrez (10-1, 2 KOs), Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 104.8 pounds, 12 rounds for Collazo’s WBO mini-flyweight title.
Darius Fulghum (9-0, 9 KOs), Houston, 167.2 pounds vs. Alantez Fox (28-5-1, 13 KOs, 1 NC), Upper Marlboro, Maryland, 168.2 pounds, 10 rounds, super middleweights.
Gabriela Fundora (12-0, 5 KOs), Coachella, California, 111.2 pounds vs. Christina Cruz (6-0, 0 KOs), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 111.6 pounds, 10 rounds for Fundora’s IBF flyweight title.
David Picasso (26-0-1, 15 KOs), Mexico City, 126 pounds vs. Erik Ruiz (17-9-1, 7 KOs), Oxnard, California, 124 pounds, 10 rounds, featherweights.
Golden Boy Promotions’ YouTube channel
5 p.m. ET; 2 p.m. PT
Daniel Garcia (7-0, 5 KOs), Westminster, Colorado, 131.8 pounds vs. Daniel Lugo (4-1, 1 KO), Tucson, Arizona, 131 pounds, 6 rounds, lightweights.
Gregory Morales (15-1, 9 KOs), San Antonio, 128.6 pounds vs. Ronal Ron (14-4, 11 KOs), Caracas, Venezuela, 128.2 pounds, 8 rounds, junior lightweights.
Gael Cabrera (3-0, 2 KOs), Sonora, Mexico, 12* pounds vs. Miguel Ceballos (2-0, 2 KOs), Peoria, Arizona, 122.8 pounds, 6 rounds, junior featherweights.
Jonathan Canas (2-0, 1 KO), Santa Ana, California, 135.8 pounds vs. Kameeko Hall (0-3), Brunswick, Georgia, 137.6 pounds, 4 rounds, junior welterweights.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.