Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin have both made weight ahead of their hotly anticipated middleweight title fight on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Golovkin was first on the scales on Friday afternoon at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and came in exactly at the division limit of 160lbs. Álvarez, sporting a thin red beard, also tipped the scales at 160lbs before an estimated crowd of 9,000. Saul Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin – hard side of the street to Las Vegas glitz | Kevin Mitchell Read moreBoth men appeared in superb physical condition when they disrobed with Álvarez claiming a slight edge in crowd support. Speaking after Friday’s weigh-in, Álvarez scoffed at the notion that Golovkin’s well-documented appetite for destruction in a higher weight class gave him pause.

Source: The Guardian September 15, 2017 20:48 UTC