LAS VEGAS – The drama-free cruise toward his first world title soared on Friday when Ryan Garcia weighed in at 146.5lbs for Saturday night’s WBC welterweight title fight versus belt holder Mario Barrios at T-Mobile Arena.
San Antonio’s Barrios, coming off back-to-back draws versus Abel Ramos and 46-year-old Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao, weighed in at the limit of 147.0lbs for the DAZN pay-per-view.
The uneventful development eased concerns about California’s Garcia, 24-2 (20 KOs), who was fined $5,000 for a pre-fight weight check earlier this month and missed weight by 3.2lbs in 2024 to spoil his second shot at a world title, versus Devin Haney, in 2024.
That erratic training camp was punctuated by Garcia testing positive for the banned PED ostarine, changing his three-knockdown victory to a no-contest.
This time around, with Garcia’s father, Henry, returning as lead trainer, a more focused Ryan Garcia has emerged during camp and in press events as he heads to his fourth attempt to become a world titleholder.
Full weigh-in results as follows:
Welterweights – 12 rounds (WBC 147lbs title)
Mario Barrios (147.0lbs) vs Ryan Garcia (146.5lbs)
Junior welterweights – 12 rounds (IBF 140lbs title)
Richardson Hitchins (140.0lbs) vs Oscar Duarte (140.0lbs)
Junior welterweights – 12 rounds (WBA 140lbs title)
Gary Antuanne Russell (140.0lbs) vs Andy Hiraoka (139.5lbs)
Junior welterweights – 10 rounds
Frank Martin (140.5lbs) vs Nahir Albright (142.0lbs)
Super middleweights – 10 rounds
Bektemir Melikuziev (167.5lbs) vs Sena Agbeko (168.0lbs)
Middleweights – 10 rounds
Luis Arias (162.5lbs) vs Amari Jones (162.0lbs)
Junior lightweights – six rounds
David Calabro (128.0lbs) vs Mohammed Alakel (131.5lbs)
Heavyweights – six rounds
Brandon Colantonio (236.0lbs) vs Joshua Edwards (236.5lbs)
Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene’s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers’ Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.
