Champion Junto Nakatani and challenger David Cuellar both came in under the bantamweight limit for their WBC title fight on Monday in Japan.

Nakatani, 29-0 (22 KOs), hit the scales at 117.5lbs for his third title defense, while Cuellar, 28-0 (18 KOs), weighed 117.25lbs for his first world title opportunity. The fight, which will take place at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, will headline a card that will air live in the United States on ESPN+.

The 27-year-old Nakatani of Sagamihara, Japan is a three division champion who won his current belt in February of 2024 with a sixth round stoppage of Alexandro Santiago. Cuellar, 23, of Queretaro, Mexico is taking a significant step-up in competition and will be fighting outside of his native Mexico for the first time as a pro.

Nakatani-Cuellar isn’t the only bantamweight title fight on the card.

WBA titleholder Seiya Tsutsumi will make the first defense of the belt he won last October when he beat his Japanese compatriot Takuma Inoue by decision. Now the 29-year-old from Tokyo will try to defeat another Japanese former titlist in Daigo Higa, also 29, and also of Tokyo.

Tsutsumi, 12-0-2 (8 KOs), weighed in at the bantamweight limit of 118lbs while Higa, a former WBC flyweight titlist with a record of 21-3-1 (19 KOs), checked in at 117.75lbs.

Also in action, former kickboxer turned bantamweight boxing prospect Tenshin Nasukawa, 5-0 (2 KOs), will meet former WBO bantamweight titleholder Jason Moloney, 27-3 (19 KOs), in a 10-round fight. Both boxers came in at 119lbs.

Nasukawa, 26, of Tokyo is coming off a ten round unanimous decision win over Gerwin Asilo last October, while the 34-year-old Australian Moloney is fighting for the first time since losing his belt by decision to Yoshiki Takei last May, also in Japan.