Earlier today, Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez hit the scales for their middleweight championship showdown tomorrow night at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, with both fighters making weight before an intense staredown in front of an overflowing and passionate crowd.
Cotto vs. Canelo Alvarez weigh-in video: Watch the fighters hit the scales
Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez weighed in and stared down, and are set for action tomorrow night.
Now, all that’s left is the fight.
Cotto (40-4, 33 KO) weighed in at 153½ with Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KO) at the 155-pound limit for the bout. The normal middleweight limit is 160 pounds, but this fight is being contested at a catchweight, as Cotto’s three bouts in the division all have been. With Alvarez moving up from 154 -- and having fought his last couple of fights with the same catchweight limit -- this made sense for both parties, and allows no advantages, as Cotto is a very small middleweight and Alvarez is himself not a true middleweight yet, though he may soon be.
The undercard weigh-ins also went smoothly, save for Randy Caballero and Lee Haskins, who were set to meet for the IBF bantamweight title. Caballero, who held the belt coming in, missed weight by a full five and a half pounds, and was forced to vacate. Haskins’ team chose not to engage in negotiations for a catchweight bout to keep the fight on the show (it was set to air on the prelim live stream portion of the broadcast), and will be going home to England with the belt.
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