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WEIGHTS FROM THE ?HAVOC AT THE HARD ROCK SAN DIEGO

By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 22 May 2009

They held the official weight-in yesterday at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, California for the inaugural fight card promoted by Derek Pierce of the Rogue Boxing Promotions.

Mercito Gesta of Mandaue, Cebu who will be headlining the fight card, came in at 135.5 lbs while his opponent from Tijuana, Mexico Alain Hernandez tipped the scales at 136.

The rest of the weigh-in results are as follows:

Anthony Martinez 139 lbs vs Carlos Molina 137 lbs

Abraham Han 155lbs vs. Ibraiem King 154 lbs.

Alavaro Muro 124 lbs vs. Ronny Rios 125 lbs.

The unbeated Gesta (14-0-1,5KO) who now lives and trains in South San Diego will face Alain Hernandez who parades a record of 14-6-0.

He is trained by Carl Penalosa at the Alliance Training Center in Chula Vista, California.

The fight cards starts at 6:30 PM with tickets starting at $35.00


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