Weights From Liverpool: Bellew 199.1; Makabu 196.8
By Elliot Foster
Tony Bellew and Ilunga Makabu tipped the scales ahead of their battle for world honours this weekend.
The show, which is billed ‘Real Life Rocky Story’ takes place on Sunday at Everton Football Club’s Goodison Park, live on Sky Sports, has a main event that has the vacant WBC cruiserweight world title at stake and features two further title showdowns.
Wavertree man Bellew (26-2-1, 16 KOs) comes up against the number one in the division Makabu (19-1, 18 KOs), from Congo, for the title in what will be his acid test at the home of his beloved football club.
Makabu (14st 8oz) was pitted against Bellew for the vacant crown after Grigory Drozd, the now-former champ, was injured and stripped of the belt.
And now 33-year-old Bellew, who tipped the scales at 14st 3lbs 1oz, will look to make his mark by winning a world title at the third time of asking.
Meanwhile, Stephen Smith and Daniel Brizuela were inside the limit ahead of their showdown for the vacant WBC Silver super-featherweight title.
Smith, from Liverpool, weighed in at 9st 4lbs, while Argentina’s Brizuela came in at 9st 3lbs 3oz.
Elsewhere, Sean Dodd and Pasquale Di Silvio will vie for the vacant WBC International lightweight prize after weighing in at 9st 7lbs 3oz and 9st 8lbs 7lbs respectively, while Tom Farrell and Kofi Yates were within the weight for their English super-lightweight title eliminator.
A slew of undercard fighters also weighed in outside The Dome in Liverpool ONE ahead of tomorrow’s action, with the pick of them being Paul Smith and former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion David Price, who will fight in his home city for the first time in nearly three years.
