This afternoon at 5:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT, Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez take to the scales to weigh in for tomorrow night’s middleweight championship showdown on HBO pay-per-view, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. SB Nation will have the live stream (above) as the main event and undercard fighters all weigh in.
Canelo vs. Cotto weigh-in live stream: Time, TV schedule and how to watch online
Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez weigh in today for tomorrow night’s big HBO PPV main event, and you can watch live right here on SBNation.com.
UPDATE: See all of the weigh-in results here.
Cotto (40-4, 33 KO) and Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KO) are meeting for Cotto’s lineal middleweight world championship, which the Puerto Rican star won in June 2014 by dominating Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez. Cotto, 35, has defended once since then, defeating former titleholder Daniel Geale in June of this year, another one-sided fight.
Cotto has held titles at 140, 147, 154, and now 160, although this fight will not be at a full 160-pound limit. The catchweight for the bout is 155 pounds, just one over the junior middleweight limit and a full five below the true middleweight limit. Cotto was surprisingly stripped of his WBC title earlier this week, too, but is still recognized as the middleweight champion of the world, having beat the man who beat the man.
Alvarez, 25, has won three straight fights himself, following a 2013 loss to Floyd Mayweather in what was then the highest-grossing fight in history, since eclipsed by Mayweather-Pacquiao. The young Mexican star is looked at as being a potential new king of the pay-per-view market in boxing, following the September retirement of Mayweather and the impending retirement of Pacquiao in 2016. He is a former 154-pound titleholder.
The undercard will feature a pair of world title fights, plus the return of one of the pound-for-pound best in the sport in Guillermo Rigondeaux. Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KO) is the current lineal super bantamweight champion, but will be fighting as a featherweight against Drian Francisco (28-3-1, 22 KO) in a 10-round bout. Rigondeaux, originally from Cuba, recently signed with Roc Nation Sports, who also promote Cotto. The IBF bantamweight title will be on the line with Randy Caballero (22-0, 13 KO) returning to make his first defense against Lee Haskins (32-3, 14 KO), and Japan’s Takashi Miura (29-2-2, 22 KO) will make his U.S. debut with a WBC super featherweight title defense against Francisco Vargas (22-0-1, 16 KO).
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