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McCall 235, Gomez 228!

18 Oct 2007 22:27       hits 3840 Print version

WBC International heavyweight titleholder Oliver McCall (#2 in WBC rankings) and Juan Carlos Gomez (#4) presented themselves well prepared and in perfect physical shape at the official weigh-in at Kroyman's car dealership for their big clash this Friday night in Berlin's Estrel Convention Center. "The Atomic Bull" weighed in at 235 lbs. while "The Black Panther" brought 228 lbs. 9 fights are scheduled for arena's "Champion's Night" featuring 5 heavyweight bouts and 4 international championships. The show starts at 6 p.m., Gomez and McCall will step into the ring at about 11 p.m. (German time). The heaviest fighter of the night will be Corey Sanders who lived up to his name T-Rex by weighing in at a massive 358.5 lbs. Sanders faces promising German heavyweight prospect Steffen Kretschmann in the co-main event who went over the scale with 234 lbs. The lightest competitors are Cuban Olympic Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa and Samuel Kebede from Ethiopia who both weighed in at 132 lbs.


Source: fightnews.com

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