Getting an advantage is nothing new to Mayweather. He's physically bigger at 5-foot-9 than Mayweather and has had to lose good amounts of weight in the final days in some of his recent fights just to get to the 154-pound class limit. "We can't help it Alvarez has idiots for managers, but we're going to take every advantage they give us."Īlvarez has been a full-fledged junior middleweight for more than three years now. "They're the ones who said they would fight at a lower weight," said Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's manager. Saturday night's megafight is officially for a version of the 154-pound title held by Alvarez, but will be fought at a catch weight of 152 pounds that was harder for Alvarez to make than it was for Mayweather. Weight is always a big deal in fights, and it is center stage again in one of the biggest showdowns in recent years. Then they forced me to be quiet about it.'' I wanted to make the fight, so I agreed to 152. "They wanted me to go to 147,'' Alvarez said earlier this week when he said he was already down to 154 pounds. Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather weighed in at 150½. Mexican star Canelo Alvarez came in at 152 pounds at the official pre-fight weigh-in Friday, delighting a rabid crowd of about 12,000 that packed the MGM Arena in Las Vegas to watch.
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