Weights from Bilbao

Airich: “I’m ready for Danny!”

Photos: M.A. Sayer

At today’s official weigh-in for tomorrow’s big show in Bilbao Konstantin Airich presented himself in great shape and very self-confident regarding his fight against “Brixton Bomber” Danny Williams.

“No matter what we’ve talking about in the last couple of days”, said Airich. “I feel that I’m ready to take on Danny. When I first saw him I knew: This is the guy I will knock out! And even if he doesn’t go down I promise all my fans to show a hack of a fight!”

With 222 lbs. Airich was lighter than his British opponent who weighed in at 267 lbs.

The contenders for the EBA middleweight championship Mahir Oral (159 lbs.) and Alexander Sipos (160 lbs.) had no problems making weight.

Same counts for WBC international cruiserweight champion Herbie Hide (199.5 lbs.) and his challenger Ehinomen Ehikhamenor (199 lbs.) who was late for the weigh-in as he had just been flying in to Bilbao from overseas and took a nap when the procedure started. Herbie’s comment on that: “I hope he shows up on time tomorrow so I can put him right back to sleep!”