Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan each made weight Friday afternoon in Las Vegas, ahead of Saturday night’s HBO pay-per-view main event from the brand-new T-Mobile Arena.
Canelo vs. Khan weigh-in video: Watch both fighters step on the scales
Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan are ready for Saturday night.
Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KO) and Khan (31-3, 19 KO) will fight for the WBC and Ring Magazine world middleweight championship Saturday night, though the fight is being held five pounds below the normal middleweight limit at a catchweight of 155 pounds.
Both fighters came in right at the 155-pound maximum for the fight, and each man looked in good shape.
The question for most is whether Khan, 29, will be able to handle the step up in weight. He’s never fought over 147 pounds, and though he is a former world titleholder at junior welterweight (140 pounds), he’s also never had a good chin and has been knocked out at 135 and 140. Those losses did come in 2008 and 2012, but punch resistance has always been a factor for the former Olympic silver medalist from England -- there is a lot of concern that he won’t be able to handle punches from Alvarez, a 25-year-old natural junior middleweight.
SB Nation will have live coverage for the fights Saturday night, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET. For much more on Canelo-Khan and everything else in the boxing world, visit SB Nation’s Bad Left Hook.
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