Yokasta Valle and Thi Thu Nhi Nguyen easily made weight for their historic clash.
The pair of strawweight champions each weighed in at 104 pounds for their IBF/WBO title bout, marking the first unification bout to take place on Costa Rican soil. The scheduled ten-round bout headlines a Golden Boy DAZN Fight Night show Thursday night at Cuidad Deportiva Heiner Ugalde in Valle’s hometown of San Jose, Costa Rica.
Valle (25-2, 9KOs) attempts the sixth defense of the IBF title she claimed on the road in an August 2019 split decision victory over Joana Pastrana in Marbella, Spain. The 30-year-old from San Jose fought in her home region for her next six fights before making her United States debut in a ten-round win over Lorraine Villalobos in her most recent fight on June 11 at Anaheim, Calif.
The win over Villalobos came on top of a DAZN show presented by Golden Boy Promotions, who officially signed Valle in a co-promotional deal that was announced two days later. Valle is also promoted by MarvNation Promotions.
Nguyen (5-0, 1KO) will attempt the first defense of the WBO title. The 25-year-old from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hit the road to reclaim the belt in a ten-round unanimous decision over Etsuko Tada last October in Ansan, South Korea. Thursday’s fight marks Nguyen’s first outside of Asia and the third in a row outside of his home country.
Below are the weights for the rest of the card, with select bouts broadcast live on DAZN (9:00 pm ET/8:00 pm local time).
Adalaida Ruiz (11-0-1, 6KOs), Los Angeles, 115 pounds vs. Sonia Osorio (15-7-2, 4KOs), Mexico City, 115 pounds—10 rounds, interim WBC junior bantamweight title
Anabel Ortiz (31-5, 4KOs), Mexico City, pounds vs. MarÃa Santizo (9-1, KOs), Guatemala City, Guatemala, pound—8 round, strawweight
José GarcÃa (15-1-1. 14KOs), Tijuana, Mexico, 140 pounds vs. Israel López (9-2, 7KOs), Tipitapa, Nicaragua, 140 pounds—8 rounds, junior welterweight
Ofacio Falcon (7-0, 5KOs), The Bronx, New York, 130lbs vs. José Pérez (10-5, 8KOs), San José, Costa Rica, 130 pounds—6 rounds, junior lightweight
Kyle Erwin (5-0, 2KOs), Oceanside, California, 142.4 lbs. Lorenzo Garro (3-0, 1KO), Escazú, Costa Rica, 142 pounds—4 rounds, junior welterweight
Jose Alvarado (9-0, 5KOs), Ensenada, Mexico, 132.7 pounds vs. Keilng Fonseca (3-5, 2KOS), San Jose via Managua, Nicaragua, 130 pounds—6 rounds, junior lightweight
Raquel Miller (11-0, 4KOs), San Francisco, 168.5 lbs. Beatriz Acuña, Brazil, 150.9 pounds—6/8 rounds, super middleweight
Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
