“No, when he caught me it was a right hand that would have knocked anyone out. Granted, Canelo would be a small cruiserweight at 187lbs, but a cruiserweight none the less. NEWS: Canelo Alvarez in gym training for Jermall Charlo fightĬanelo appears to be a cruiserweight in size, because that division goes from 176lbs to 200. The light heavyweight division ends at 175. If Canelo is weighing 187 pounds, then that makes him a light heavyweight and more than heavy enough to fight at middleweight, super middleweight or light heavyweight. One of the reasons why Canelo isn’t fighting Golovkin now is that he needs to grow into the middleweight division. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya says Canelo is only a 154 pounder, and not a middleweight. That should be more than enough for Canelo to agree to the fight.
If Canelo’s 187lbs is true, then he would have a weight advantage of 15 to 17 pounds over Golovkin. As heavy as Canelo is, Khan doesn’t understand why he doesn’t feel that he’s big enough to fight unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, who comes into his fights around 170 to 172lbs after rehydrating. Khan only rehydrated three pounds compared to Canelo’s 32 pounds. Canelo says he isn’t the same weight as Golovkin, but what is he talking about! He’s almost as big as a light heavyweight,” said Khan to 7days.ae. “When he fought me he came into the ring at 187lbs. Canelo outweighed Khan by 29 pounds if what Khan says is true about Canelo weighing 187 on fight night. Khan is saying that Canelo weighed in at 187lbs, which means he rehydrated 32 pounds after weighing in at 155lbs for their catch-weight fight.įor his part, Khan says he weighed 158lbs on the night after weighing in at 155.
The boxing fans were left to speculate what weight that Canelo weighed in for the fight. What’s interesting is that HBO didn’t give a rehydrated weight for Canelo to the viewing audience like they normally do for fighters on their broadcasts. By Dan Ambrose: Amir “King” Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) says that former WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) was 187 pounds on the night that they fought on May 7 earlier this year in their fight on HBO pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
0 kommentar(er)
