Canelo vs. Cotto weigh-in results: Miguel Cotto, Canelo Alvarez make weight for main event

Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez are set for action tomorrow night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, with both fighters making weight for their middleweight championship showdown, which will air on HBO pay-per-view.

Cotto (40-4, 33 KO) weighed in at 153½, with Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KO) at 155, right on the limit for the fight’s catchweight. The normal middleweight limit is 160 pounds, but Cotto, the defending lineal champion of the division, is small for the division, and has used his drawing power and champion status to push for catchweights in his recent fights. Since Canelo is also really a junior middleweight (154 pound limit), it was easy to get this fight with as low a limit as possible to still be looked at as a title fight.

But forget the weights, because this is a fight that matters, with or without any title on the line. Cotto, 35, is one of the premier stars of his generation, really trailing only Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao for U.S. stardom in the sport over the last seven years, since Oscar De La Hoya retired. And Alvarez, 25, is thought to be the rising next superstar of boxing. Plus, you have the age-old Puerto Rico-Mexico rivalry in play. The ballroom for the weigh-in was literally overflowing and reportedly too crowded to even move, which is enough to tell you how big this fight really is, catchweight discussion aside.

PPV undercard weights

Ronny Rios (24-1, 10 KO) and Jayson Velez (23-0-1, 16 KO) will meet in a 10-round featherweight bout, both coming in half a pound under the limit at 125½. They’ll be up first on the PPV broadcast.

Guillermo Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KO) and Drian Francisco (28-3-1, 22 KO) both made weight for their 10-round super bantamweight showdown, which technically speaking would still be a world championship fight, as Rigondeaux remains the recognized lineal champion of the division despite being recently and questionably stripped of both the WBA and WBO titles. Rigondeaux weighed in at 121½, with Francisco at 121, both under the 122-pound limit.

The main undercard bout will see Takashi Miura (29-2-2, 22 KO) defend his WBC super featherweight title against Francisco Vargas (22-0-1, 16 KO) in a 12-round bout. Miura weighed in at the limit of 130 pounds, with Vargas at 129½.

Preliminary fight weights

Before the pay-per-view starts, there will be a pair of bouts available via live stream. The first will see Chinese heavyweight Zhilei Zhang (5-0, 3 KO) take on Juan Goode (6-2, 5 KO) in a four-round bout. Zhang weighed in at 264½, with Goode at 244.

In a bantamweight title bout that will air on the pre-show stream, IBF titleholder Randy Caballero (22-0, 13 KO) became former IBF titleholder Randy Caballero by missing weight badly, coming in at 123½ pounds with a 118-pound limit. Challenger Lee Haskins (32-3, 14 KO) weighed in at 117½, and he can win the vacant belt if he wins the fight.