Yokasta Valle, Thi Thu Nhi Nguyen Make Weight For Historic Unification Bout In Costa Rica

Yokasta Valle and Thi Thu Nhi Nguyen both easily made weight for their historic clash.

The pair of strawweight titlists each weighed 104 pounds for their IBF/WBO title bout, marking the first ever unification fight to take place on Costa Rican soil. The scheduled ten-round bout headlines a Golden Boy DAZN Fight Night show Thursday evening Ciudad 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 win 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 U.S. debut in a ten-round win over Lorraine Villalobos in her most recent bout on June 11 in Anaheim, California.  

The win over Villalobos was added to a DAZN show presented by Golden Boy Promotions, who officially inked Valle to 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 claim 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 third in a row away from her home country.

Below are the weights for the rest of the undercard, with select bouts airing live on DAZN (9:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. 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. Maria Santizo (9-1, KOs), Guatemala City, Guatemala, pounds—8 rounds, strawweight

Jose Garcia (15-1-1. 14KOs), Tijuana, Mexico, 140 pounds vs. Israel Lopez (9-2, 7KOs), Tipitapa, Nicaragua, 140 pounds—8 rounds, junior welterweight

Ofacio Falcon (7-0, 5KOs), The Bronx, New York, 130 pounds vs. Jose Perez (10-5, 8KOs), San Jose, Costa Rica, 130 pounds—6 rounds, junior lightweight

Kyle Erwin (5-0, 2KOs), Oceanside, California, 142.4 pounds vs. Lorenzo Garro (3-0, 1KO), Escazu, 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 pounds* vs. Beatriz Aires Da Cuhna (2-0, 2KOs) Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil, 159.8 pounds—6/8 rounds, middleweight

*Miller over limit, will weigh in Thursday morning 

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox