Junior Younan will be in action tonight on Long Island – just not in the boxing ring.

Younan, a 29-year-old super middleweight, has been relegated to the commentary booth for tonight’s Star Boxing card at The Paramount in Huntington, New York, after his opponent, Ecuador’s Abel Mina, refused to leave his hotel room for the weigh-in a day earlier.

“In my almost 50 years of matchmaking, I've never had a guy, let alone a main-eventer, refuse to come out his hotel room to the weigh-in,” the incredulous Ron Katz, matchmaker for Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, told BoxingScene.

“After numerous efforts from me and Joe DeGuardia, the guy just refused.” 

Younan, 21-0-1 (13 KOs), a Brooklyn native who now makes his home in Marlboro, New Jersey, had spent the previous two months in Colorado Springs, Colorado, training for what was to be his third fight since signing with Star Boxing last year.

Younan’s father and trainer Sherif Younan was likewise upset at the development, calling the 18-3-1 (9 KOs) Mina a “coward.”

“We need to please do something about this guy," he said. "It’s crazy, being scared, not wanting to leave his room.”

Younan-Mina is the second main event to fall out for the show, which is Star Boxing’s 50th at The Paramount. The event had been postponed from February 13 after the original headliner, former WBO light heavyweight titleholder Joe Smith Jnr, had to withdraw due to pneumonia.