At official weigh-in both IBF Inter-Continental light welterweight champion Peter Semo (18-1, 13 KO), Sweden-located native of Uganda and Ukrainian challenger for his belt Sergey Fedchenko (20-0, 9 KO) easily won competiton with scales: Peter Semo scaled 137.8 pounds while Fedchenko appeared to be 136.7 (the upper limit of the division being 140 pounds). Semo and Fedchenko will clash on Saturday May 17th in Kharkiv Sportpalace “Lokomotiv”.
Also fans in Kharkiv will see non-title bout of middleweights: Avtandil Khurtsidze (14-1-2, 10 KO), EBA European champion, and Hungarian journeyman Ferenc Olah (8-9-1, 1 KO). Khurtsidze had to pass weigh-in alone since his rival was still on his way to Kharkiv and would go through the procedure later. Avtandil scaled 160.9.
In addition there will be fight of two undefeated heavyweights: Alexander Ustinov vs. Rudolf Abramyan. Rudolf Abramyan (11-0, 10 KO) weighed 247.4 while gigantic Alexander Ustinov (9-0, 8 KO) scaled 296.5.