Junior middleweight Callum Walsh made weight ahead of his return to Ireland, where he will face Przemyslaw Runowski in a 10-round main event Friday at the 3Arena.
Walsh (11-0, 9 KOs), a native of Cork, Ireland, who trains under Freddie Roach at Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California, weighed in at 153.8 pounds. Runowski (22-2-1, 6 KOs), from Poland, came in slightly lighter at 152.8 pounds.
At 23 years old, Walsh is seven years younger than the 30-year-old Runowski, who is unbeaten in his last four fights. Walsh enters the bout on a two-fight knockout streak, while Runowski’s only losses came via unanimous decision to Michael McKinson and Josh Kelly; he has never been stopped.
In the co-feature, super middleweight contender Ali Akhmedov (21-1, 16 KOs) and Pierre Hubert Dibombe (22-1-1, 12 KOs) both weighed in at 169.2 pounds for their bout, contracted at 170 pounds.
Akhmedov, 29, has won five straight fights — four by stoppage — since being halted by Carlos Gongora in December 2020, a loss that steadied his career momentum. The Kazakhstan native Akhmedov is promoted by Gennadiy Golovkin’s GGG Promotions. Dibombe, 32, of France, is coming off his first career loss, a defeat to Bektemir Melikuziev in April on the undercard of the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia event.
The show weights are below:
Junior middleweight – 10 rounds
Callum Walsh (153.8 pounds) vs. Przemyslaw Runowski (152.8 pounds)
Super middleweight – 10 rounds
Ali Akhmedov (169.2) vs. Pierre Hubert Dibombe (169.2)
Super middleweight – eight rounds
Emmett Brennan (167) vs. Kevin Cronin (167.2)
Heavyweight – eight rounds
Thomas Carty (258.8) vs. Jonathan Vergara (233.4)
Women’s lightweight – six rounds
Shauna O’Keefe (134) vs. Valgerdur Gudsteinsdottir (134.4)
Junior middleweight – eight rounds
Craig O’Brien (153.2) vs. Edward Donovan (153.6)
Welterweight – four rounds
Gareth Dowling (145.8) vs. Daniel Nowak (147.8)
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