Jaime Munguia arrived under the middleweight limit for a fight that was speculated to take place at a heavier weight.

The former WBO junior middleweight titlist and current middleweight contender officially registered at 159.8 pounds (72.5 kg) Saturday’s DAZN headliner from Arena Astros in Guadalajara, Mexico. Munguia will face Argentina’s Gonzalo Gaston Coria, who was 159.4 pounds (72.3 kg) at Friday’s official pre-fight weigh-in for their scheduled ten-round contest.

Original plans called for a maximum weight of 165 pounds, closer to the super middleweight limit. However, neither boxer needed that cushion for what is now a traditional middleweight fight.

It marks a firm return to the division for Tijuana’s Munguia (40-0, 32KOs), who weighed a career-heaviest 165 pounds in a fifth-round knockout of England’s Jimmy ‘Kilrain’ Kelly on June 11 in Anaheim, California. Munguia took the fight at the higher weight limit as means to keep open his options, including a possible super middleweight campaign.

The 26-year-old seemingly came to an agreement with England’s John Ryder for a fight that was targeted for October 29 in Anaheim. Both parties were on board, only for the bout to never materialize and with Munguia resurfacing in Mexico, where he fights for the second time in his past three starts.

Munguia began 2022 with a third-round knockout of unbeaten D’Mitrius Ballard on February 19 in his Tijuana hometown.

Coria (21-5, 8KOs) fights outside of his native Argentina for just the fifth time in his six-year pro career. The 25-year-old southpaw from Cordoba, Argentina is 1-3 in the road, with the one win actually occurring in Mexico when he outpointed Marco Reyes over twelve rounds in a June 2019 clash in Chihuahua.

A three-fight win streak accompanies Coria into the ring on Saturday, though he is considered a heavy underdog in a matchup that has drawn industry-wide criticism. Among his five defeats is an October 2020 second-round knockout to Kazakhstan’s Janibek Alimkhanuly, who has since claimed the WBO middleweight title.

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