LAS VEGAS -- Junior welterweight titleholders Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol both appeared ripped and ready as they made weight Friday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena ahead of their world title unification fight Saturday.Postol weighed in first and was 139? pounds, a half-pound under the division limit. Crawford, with hundreds of fans who made the trip from his native Omaha, Nebraska, cheering him on, was 140 for the fight, which will headline Top Ranks HBO PPV card (9 p.m. ET) and crown the No. 1 junior welterweight in the world.After the fighters faced off and posed for pictures -- no trash-talking, as has been the case throughout the promotion -- Crawford thanked his hometown fans for making the trip.Im ready to put on a show [Saturday] night, Crawford told them. Its going to be action all night. Two top fighters, two world champions, two undefeated fighters in the primes. Im ready. Dont blink. Thats all I have to say.Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs), the 28-year-old former lightweight world champion and 2014 fighter of the year, will be making the third defense of his junior welterweight belt. Postol, 32, who knocked out Lucas Matthysse in the 10th round to win a vacant title in a big upset in October, will be making his first defense.On Saturday I will prove that I am not an underdog once and for all, Postol said through translator and manager Vadim Kornilov.Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) heads into the fight with a sense of relief after his wife, Olga, gave birth to twin boys, Lukian and Timofey, on Tuesday in Ukraine. He said he wants to win so he can bring home a world title belt for each baby.Obviously, it takes some pressure off, Postol said about his wife delivering healthy babies while he is away. I thank my wife for doing it without me.Featherweight Oscar Valdez (19-0, 17 KOs), Mexicos only two-time Olympic boxer, will face Argentinas Matias Adrian Rueda (26-0, 23 KOs) for a vacant world title. Valdez was on the division limit of 126 pounds, and Rueda was 125.Welterweight Jose Benavidez Jr. (24-0, 16 KOs) weighed 146? for his fight with Francisco Chia Santana (24-4-1, 12 KOs), who was 148 pounds, the contract limit for the nontitle bout.During an intense staredown, Benavidez made a throat-slash gesture toward Santana as they were nose-to-nose. Santana simply stared straight ahead until they were separated.Light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk (10-0, 10 KOs), a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist from Ukraine and one of the top prospects in boxing, was at the division limit of 175 pounds, and opponent Tommy Karpency (26-5-1, 15 KOs) was 174? .The Nevada State Athletic Commission also released the purses for the card. Crawford will earn $1.3 million. 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Because they are public figures, more so during Olympic years, they have become targets for anti-gun groups.Mass shootings exacerbate the rift over gun control and often put Olympic shooters in the crosshairs of hate.Its unfortunate that we get lumped in with that, said Rhode, who is vying to become the first American athlete to win medals in a sixth straight Games at next months Rio Olympics. There has to be some kind of reality.When Rhode won her second career gold, in skeet at the 2012 London Games, one of the first questions she was asked by media was about the theater shooting at Aurora, Colorado, which occurred a few days earlier and left 12 dead.Sometimes it goes beyond inquiries.Several shooters have received death threats, requiring extra security in London.Trap shooter Corey Cogdell-Unrein needed extra protection after someone posted hunting videos on her Facebook page without her knowledge.A two-time Olympian, she grew up in Alaska, where the family hunted for its food, and still hunts. Despite saying she didnt agree with the content of the videos, Cogdell-Unrein received numerous death threats before the Olympics.After the London Games, where she won bronze, thousands of people signed a petition to strip her of the medal.Unfortunately, there were people who decided to hone in on me as a public figure at the time and they wanted to push their agenda of trying to stop animal cruelty and hunting, said Cogdell-Unrein, who is headed to Rio. Hopefully that will not happen again. If it does, I will be better prepared for it this time.dddddddddddd I definitely dont support animal cruelty and a lot of the things they were saying I was a part of.As gun laws become stricter, the ability to obtain guns and ammunition could become much tougher for Olympic shooters.In California, where Rhode lives, Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a law requiring background checks for anyone purchasing ammunition, among other restrictions. Rhode burns through up to 1,000 shotgun shells a day in training and is concerned how the new laws will affect her ability to properly prepare.Im not sure how thats going to work out, how thats going to affect me, what thats going to entail, she said. It could make things much more difficult for me to train.Travel is another issue for Olympic shooters.Shooters and their liaisons must keep up on gun laws, not only for each of the 50 states, but any country they may travel to or through for competitions. For air gun shooters, that sometimes means sending their air canisters to their destination ahead of time.Even knowing the regulations doesnt always make things go smoothly.Rhode once had a flight from San Marino delayed for hours after a competition because security officials were concerned she had multiple shotguns and ammunition in her luggage.Jay Shi, an air gun and pistol shooter headed to his first Olympics, had to wait nearly four hours to get cleared into China for a competition as security hand counted every bullet. The process was repeated when he left.Shi had to stand by another time as a security person took out his pistol to examine it because of the strange-looking handle used on competition guns.The rule is not to touch the gun, but they took it out and were looking at it, Shi said. I was freaking because now theyre waving a gun all around.The issues Olympic shooters face wont subside anytime soon.The debate over gun control is a divisive chasm that seems to grow deeper with each mass shooting.Athletes who use guns for their sport will likely always be part of that debate -- whether they want to be or not. 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