They’ll clash in the main event for Barrios’ WBC welterweight title on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena on DAZN PPV, but the undercard is underway:

Melikuziev dropped Agbeko once before stopping him with two seconds left in the seventh in their 10-round super middleweight bout.

With 30 seconds left in the seventh, the Uzbek southpaw landed a right hand on Agbeko’s ear. After trying to land a winging right hand, Agbeko was on unsteady legs as he tried to get away from Melikuziev. As Agbeko was motioning to referee Chris Flores by tapping his chin, Melikuziev (17-1, 11 KOs) followed up with a left hand that sent him to the canvas in a heap.

Agbeko (29-5, 23 KOs), 34, rose on shaky legs, and Melikuziev landed one more big straight left hand that led to Flores stopping the fight moments before the bell..

After the win, Melikuziev, 29, called for a WBA title shot.

“I’m always ready,“ he said via translator in his post-fight interview. “I came here for this fight, for championship fights, for the best fights, and whenever I get an opportunity to fight for the title, I’m knocking on the door. I’m begging for that title opportunity and I was promised I’m going to get the winner of whoever wins the WBA title fight.”

The stoppage win was Melikuziev’s first since 2023.

Melikuziev’s speed and pace helped him get off to a fast start and he rocked the Accra, Ghana, native with a left hand in the third round. The fight slowed a bit after a clash of heads in the fourth left Melikuziev with cuts on both eyebrows. They also clashed heads in the first, which led to a brief stop in the action.

“I don’t remember half of the rounds because the first head clash that we had. I woke up in the fifth round," he said. "Before that, I didn’t even realize I was doing everything automatically because the headbutt really distracted me. After the fifth round, I started seeing the openings.”

Facing his toughest test, Jones passed with flying colors, dropping Arias twice in their scheduled 10-round, 163-pound catchweight bout.

Arias’ corner stopped the fight between the fourth and fifth round. Arias, 35, had only been stopped by Erickson Lubin before facing Jones.

“I feel like I did a hell of a job,“ Jones said in his post-fight interview. “Arias had only been stopped once, and if you watch that, you could say it was a little shaky. I really stopped him. ... You can’t say nothing about that.”

Jones (16-0, 14 KOs) thoroughly outboxed Arias out of both stances and dropped him for the first time with one minute left in the second round. They went to trade left hooks, but Jones’ found its mark and sent Arias to the canvas.

Arias (22-7-1, 11 KOs) was visibly affected by many of the power shots the 23-year-old Oakland native landed. Late in the fourth, he rocked Arias for the second time with a chopping right hand along the ropes before sending him to the canvas with a looping right hook.

Not long after the end of that round, referee Harvey Dock waved off the contest after speaking with Arias’ corner.

“I wanted to cement myself as a contender,” Jones said. “I feel like I did that.”

Alakel, a 21-year-old from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, got the first knockdown with a grazing left hook late in the second round. Not long after Calabro got back to his feet, he went right back to the canvas from a left hook to the liver and referee Chris Flores stopped the bout before reaching the count of 10.