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PALICTE AND CANTU MAKE WEIGHT

By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 17 Dec 2016



Downtown Las Vegas:- Filipino boxer, Aston Palicte (21-2-0,18 KO) and Oscar Cantu (14-0-), 1KO of Texas, both made weight today at the official weigh-in for tomorrow?s fight card at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center dubbed as ?Knockout at the D?.

Palicte came in at 115lbs while Cantu, at 113.4. Their main event fight is for the NABF and WBO InterContinental titles. It will be televised live on CBS Sports Network. FloBoxing.tv will live stream the undercards worldwide starting at 5:00 PM (PT) in addition to the three main card TV bouts.

?Knockout at the D? is a presentation of the D La Vegas Hotel Casino, the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center and the Roy Jones Boxing Promotions.

Jin ?J.R.? Ross and Joey Varner will call all the actions live from ringside while Jeff Huston will be the ring announcer.

Doors open at 4 PM (PT) with the opening bout scheduled to start at 5:00PM (PT).


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