By Steve Kim

Former IBF welterweight titlist Shawn Porter faces Adrien Broner on June 20th in a battle of Ohio that will curiously take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But while both combatants have competed as welterweights, this contest will be taking place at a catch-weight.

"The weight limit is 144-pounds plus a pound, give or take," said Kenny Porter, Shawn's father and trainer who is well aware of the tactics taking place.

"They're trying to bring us down to try to hurt us and they asked for a second-day weigh-in," continued the elder Porter. "The day of the fight we have to weigh-in, again."

Reportedly, neither fighter can weigh-in heavier than 155 pounds on the morning of this bout.

Broner, after being defeated by Marcos Maidana in Dec. '13, moved down from welterweight. Porter, who competed as high as super middleweight as an amateur, has had to gradually work his way down to the 147-pound weight class. You wonder if this puts him at a competitive disadvantage.

But as the elder Porter points out, "Shawn is not like most fighters. Shawn stays within 15 pounds of his fight weight. He never allows himself to go up after the fight. The most important time is not just the camp and not the fight - but what you do after the fights. So he was on-point afterwards."

Porter stopped late replacement Erick Bone in five rounds on March 13th.

"(Shawn's) at 157 (now); within 30 days of the fight - which is ten days days from now - I expect him to be at 154," the father said on Tuesday. "That's 10 lbs. off the fight weight and we're going to (lose) 2.5 pounds per week the rest of the way."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.