Ioka, Franco make weight

By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

The weigh-in ceremony for tomorrow’s WBA/WBO world super flyweight unification bout between Kazuto Ioka (Japan) and Joshua Franco (US) took place on Friday in Tokyo, Japan. The results were as follows:

Ioka 115 lbs (the class limit)
Franco 114.75 (a quarter pound under the limit)

The officials are as follows:
Referee: Melva Santos (Puerto Rico)
Judges: Jose Roberto Torres (Puerto Rico), Ferlin Marsh (New Zealand) and Stanley Christodoulou (South Africa)
Supervisors: Jose Oliver Gomez (WBA from Panama) and Tsuyoshi Yasukochi (WBO, Japan).

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