Bryan Acosta and Ronny Rios have made weight for their crossroads featherweight bout.
Acosta tipped the scales at 125.4lbs, while Rios, of Santa Ana, California, came in at 125.8lbs for their main event bout on Saturday at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. The bout will stream on ProBox TV.
Acosta, 20-2 (8 KOs), enters the bout with two straight losses. He was stopped by Sulaiman Segawa last September after turning in a competitive performance in a unanimous decision loss to Ramon Cardenas (who rode the momentum from his win into a fight with Naoya Inoue). For this camp, Acosta, 27, has trained with Bob Santos in Las Vegas.
Rios, 34-5 (17 KOs), will be coming off a 17-month layoff. A 36-year-old from Santa Ana, California, Rios, is coming off a stoppage loss to Nick Ball. That bout was contested for Ball’s WBA featherweight title. Rios has ambitions of fighting for a title again, but given his age, this might be a do-or-die fight to make that dream come true.
In the co-feature, Rene Tellez Giron, of Queretaro, Mexico, weighed in at 134.4lbs, while Las Vegas’ Maliek Montgomery weighed in at 134.8lbs.
Giron, 22-5 (13 KOs), is on a two-fight win streak. He most recently defeated Jordan White via unanimous decision in September in White’s hometown of Washington, D.C. Giron, 27, has had an up-and-down career, upsetting 2016 U.S. Olympian Karlos Balderas but also losing to contenders such as Michel Rivera, Giovanni Cabrera, Floyd Schofield and Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez.
Montgomery, 20-2 (18 KOs), enters the bout on a two-fight losing streak. The 30-year-old Montgomery was stopped in October by Joshua Pagan and lost a disappointing unanimous decision to Jeremy Hill last March.
Full weigh-in results are as follows:
Featherweight – 10 rounds
Bryan Acosta (125.4lbs) vs. Ronny Rios (125.8lbs)
Lightweight – 10 rounds
Rene Tellez Giron (134.4lbs) vs. Maliek Montgomery (134.8lbs)
Junior welterweight – eight rounds
Leonardo Rubalcava (143.8lbs) vs. Juan Antonio Llanes (144.4lbs)
Junior middleweight – six rounds
KJ Waialae (153.8lbs) vs. Monray Marable (152.4lbs)
Junior welterweight – four rounds
Cooper O’Connell (138.0lbs) vs. Jorge Manrriquez (136.8lbs)
Junior featherweight – six rounds
Alberto Alvarez (122.0lbs) vs. Erik Ruiz (122.0lbs)
Junior middleweight – four rounds
Flavio Burgueno (156.0lbs) vs. Tyre Travon Reed (150.6lbs)
Lucas Ketelle is the author of “Inside the Ropes of Boxing,” a guide for young fighters, a writer for BoxingScene and a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Find him on X at @BigDogLukie.
