Klitschko vs. Jennings weigh-in results: Heavyweights in top condition for HBO main event

Wladimir Klitschko and Bryant Jennings both looked fit and ready at Friday’s weigh-in for Saturday night’s world heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden, with both champion and challenger coming in right around their normal weights.

Klitschko (63-3, 53 KO) will be defending tomorrow night, and weighed in at 241.6 pounds. Jennings (19-0, 10 KO), the challenger, weighed in at 226.8. Both men were lean and muscular, as they always are, and whatever one might say about the state of today’s heavyweight division, these are two fighters who never beat themselves during training camp.

In attendance for Klitschko’s first U.S. weigh-in since 2008 were boxing legends Bernard Hopkins, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and Iran Barkley, plus the world’s best pound-for-pound women’s boxer, Cecilia Braekhus.

After the two main event fighters weighed in, they went into the customary stare down photo op, with both men giving long, serious glares at each other. There was no shoving or talking, just a good old-fashioned stare down. Neither man would break, so eventually they had to be directed to go ahead and turn to the cameras for the next round of snaps. They respectfully shook hands before separating once the photos were done.

The HBO co-feature fight is also good to go, as welterweight prospect Sadam Ali (21-0, 13 KO) and Francisco Santana (22-3-1, 11 KO) both comfortably made weight for their 147-pound bout. Ali weighed in at 146.4 pounds, with Santana tipping the scales at 146.8.

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