Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez don’t have much weight left to cut for next week’s middleweight championship rematch.
We are less than a week away from the middleweight championship rematch between Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) and Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs), in what is the biggest boxing match of the year.
Because Golovkin’s WBC belt is on the line, both men are subject to the sanctioning body’s weight-cutting guidelines for title fights. At 30 days out, fighters cannot weigh more than 10% of the contracted weight. Once it gets to 7 days, they can’t exceed 5%.
For middleweight, that means Golovkin and Alvarez have to be within 168 lbs, and that was not a problem for either of them. Kazakhstan’s Golovkin weighed in at 163.8 lbs, whereas his Mexican rival came in at 163.2 lbs.
WBC middleweight champion @GGGBoxing nicely on target at the 7-day weigh-in https://t.co/38FAgOkgim vía @wbcboxing pic.twitter.com/zTZQtF93FD
— Mauricio Sulaiman (@wbcmoro) September 7, 2018
@Canelo in perfect weight with WBC 7 day weigh in at 163.2 #CaneloGGG2 @GGGBoxing @GoldenBoyBoxing @WBCBoxing @TomLoeffler1 pic.twitter.com/2mKl0QsaVO
— Mauricio Sulaiman (@wbcmoro) September 8, 2018
At 30 days out, Golovkin was 168.3 and Alvarez at 167.4, so they were both just about within the 5% rule when they didn’t need to be. We only wish more weight cuts looked like this in both MMA and (to a less frequent extent) boxing.
Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez is set for Saturday, September 15th on HBO PPV at a special start time of 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.