Tomorrow night's HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader is set and ready to go, with Gennady Golovkin (26-0, 23 KO) set to face Matthew Macklin (29-4, 20 KO) in the night's main event, for Golovkin's WBA middleweight title. Both fighters came in at a weight of 159 pounds on the scales Friday.
Two undercard bouts will also air on HBO. In a super middleweight fight, South Africa's Thomas Oosthuizen (21-0-1, 13 KO) will face Brandon Gonzales (17-0, 10 KO) in a 10-round fight. Oosthuizen came in at 167 pounds, with Gonzales at 166. Also shown will be a 10-round junior middleweight bout, so all your middleweight bases are covered tomorrow, junior, regular, and super. In that fight, Willie Nelson (20-1-1, 12 KO) will face Luciano Cuello (32-2, 16 KO). Both fighters came in at 153 pounds.
BLH will have more on the fight tomorrow, leading up to round-by-round live coverage at 9:45 pm EDT.
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