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Jean-Marc Mormeck (left), promoter Don King and Wayne Braithwaite pose after Friday's weigh-in at Westborough, Mass. Mormeck, the WBA cruiserweight champion, weighed 198 pounds Friday while Braithwaite, the WBC cruiserweight champion, tipped the scales at 188 pounds. The |
boxers will collide in the division's first unification world title fight since 1988 on Saturday on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at Worcester, Mass. If triumphant, Mormeck will become the first boxer in any weight class from France to be a unified world champion. Braithwaite, who was born in Guyana, resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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