Regis Prograis and Terry Flanagan hit the scales

REGIS PROGRAIS & Terry Flanagan and Ivan Baranchyk & Anthony Yigit all make weight ahead of Saturday’s Ali Trophy Quarter-Finals at UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans.

Fighting for the WBC Interim super-lightweight and WBC Diamond title, Regis Prograis, USA (29) (22-0, 19 KOs) weighed 139.8 lb/63.41 kg. “I just can’t wait. Thank you all for coming out,” said Prograis at the weigh-in podium. “I beat the piss out of him tomorrow.”

Terry Flanagan, England (29) (33-1, 13 KOs), was 139.3 lb /63.18 kg. “I can’t wait,” said Flanagan, a former WBO lightweight world champion. “Let’s not forget I’ve been the world champion, I have had five defences of the world title, I have got the experience and I am here to win, take the title home and become a two-weight world champion.

“It is going to be a hostile Saturday night, but I like it, I have been in people’s backyards before and came out victorious. I am excited, Terry Flanagan is going to win.”

The winner of Prograis vs Flanagan will faces Kiryl Relikh in the World Boxing Super Series semi-final.

Boxing for the vacant IBF super-lightweight world championship, Ivan Baranchyk, Belarus (25) (18-0, 11 KOs), was 140 lb /63.5 kg.

“I am the favourite in this fight,” said Miami-based ‘Beast’ Baranchyk. “I am young, hungry, I am the beast! This is a world title, it is a World Boxing Super Series quarter-final. I am ready to fight.”

Anthony Yigit, Sweden (27) (21-0-1, 7 KOs), was 139.7 lb /63.36 kg.

“It is going to be a war, don’t expect anything less, I am here to win, I am here to hunt the beast,” said Yigit.

To the experts believing Baranchyk will win the fight, Yigit said, “Those people don’t know s*** about boxing. Look, let me tell you something. They don’t know about me because I am from Europe. Everyone here has seen him fight on the American shows, but I am here and I will shock everybody.”

The winner of Baranchyk vs Yigit faces the winner of November 3’s Josh Taylor vs Ryan Martin in the semi-final.