Three American judges and an American referee have been assigned to work the Jaron Ennis-Eimantas Stanionis welterweight title fight in Atlantic City after extensive discussions that included two promoters, a commissioner and two sanctioning organizations.

The Ring has learned that New Jersey’s State Athletic Control Board chose New Jersey’s Mark Consentino, Connecticut’s Glenn Feldman and New York’s Kevin Morgan to score this intriguing bout between Philadelphia’s Ennis and Lithuania’s Stanionis. The SACB also assigned New Jersey’s David Fields as the referee for their 12-round, 147-pound title unification fight Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall.

Promoters Eddie Hearn (Ennis) and Tom Brown (Stanionis) approved of the officials chosen by longtime SACB commissioner Larry Hazzard. They will fight for Ennis’ IBF, Stanionis’ WBA and the vacant Ring welterweight titles in a main event DAZN will stream worldwide.

Stanionis (15-0, 9 KOs, 1 NC), who resides in Lithuania and trains in the Los Angeles area, will face Ennis less than an hour from where Ennis grew up in North Philadelphia. Ennis has boxed three times in Atlantic City, whereas Stanionis will fight there for the first time.

All judges obviously are expected to be impartial, but the subjective science of scoring boxing lends itself to critics who heavily scrutinize judges from the same countries, states or hometowns as boxers whose fights they score. Further complicating the process, the primary promoter of an event, in this case Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, is also responsible for paying officials their fees for scoring and officiating fights, as well as all of their travel expenses.

Consentino, Feldman and Morgan have no history with Ennis, who has won 29 of his 33 professional bouts by knockout and won his other four fights comfortably on the scorecards. Assigning three judges and referee who don’t reside either in the U.S. or Lithuania nonetheless would have at least guarded against the perception of impropriety in the event Ennis wins a decision that is considered controversial.

New Jersey’s SACB is, however, one of the U.S. regulatory agencies affiliated with the Association of Boxing Commissions that typically works closely with promoters in trying to ensure champions and challengers are comfortable with judges and referees it approves for title fights. There are ABC-accredited commissions that aren’t as open to discussing judging pools made available to representatives for both boxers weeks in advance of championship bouts.

Ennis, 27, is listed as a 6-1 favorite over Stanionis, 30, by DraftKings. Stanionis is still generally regarded as the most formidable opponent of Ennis’ nine-year professional career.