All six fighters from the main card of Zuffa Boxing 05 successfully made weight.

For the 10-round main event, both Andres Cortes and Eridson Garcia came in at the lightweight limit of 135lbs.

Cortes, 24-0 (13 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Las Vegas. Since 2024, he has stopped the 20-1-1 Bryan Chevalier in the fourth round; outpointed the 23-2 Abraham Nova; nearly shut out the 14-1-1 Salvador Jimenez; and won a fourth-round knockout against the 13-4-1 Derlyn Hernandez-Gerarldo. Cortes is ranked No. 4 by the WBO at 130lbs and No. 5 by the WBC.

Garcia, 23-1 (14 KOs), is a 31-year-old from the Dominican Republic who lives in Houston. He is ranked No. 8 by the WBO at junior lightweight and No. 14 by the WBA. Garcia has won six straight since getting taken out in the first round by Jordan White in 2023. Among Garcia’s victories were a unanimous decision over the 17-1 William Foster III in 2024 and a split decision over the 9-0 Taiga Imanaga this past December.

In the 10-round co-feature, also taking place at lightweight, Mark Magsayo was 134lbs while Feargal McCrory was 135. 

Magsayo, 28-2 (18 KOs), is a former featherweight titleholder who has won four straight since taking back-to-back defeats to Rey Vargas in 2022 and Brandon Figueroa in 2023. McCrory, 17-1 (9 KOs), is a former junior lightweight title challenger back for just the second time since his eighth-round TKO loss to Lamont Roach Jnr in June 2024. 

And in a 10-round featherweight bout, Azat Hovhannisyan, 22-6 (17 KOs), was 126lbs while Eduardo Baez, 25-7-2 (10 KOs), came in at 125.

The main broadcast from the Meta Apex in Las Vegas will start at 9 p.m. Eastern Time (2 a.m. BST) and will stream on Paramount+. A preliminary undercard will kick off at 6 p.m. ET (11 p.m. BST).

The weights for the preliminary undercard are:

Featherweights, eight rounds:
Alexis De La Cerda, 8-0 (4 KOs) – 125.5lbs
Ervin Fuller III, 12-0 (6 KOs) – 125.5lbs

Lightweights, eight rounds:
Robert Meriwether III, 10-0 (4 KOs) – 135lbs
Tony Hirsch, 7-0-2 (4 KOs) – 134lbs

Welterweights, eight rounds
Jorge Maravillo, 11-0-1 (8 KOs) – 149.5lbs
Elias Diaz, 15-3 (8 KOs) – 147lbs

Featherweights, eight rounds
Troy Nash, 6-0-1 (1 KO) – 127lbs
Bryan Rodriguez, 8-1 (1 KO) – 127.5lbs

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