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LAS VEGAS – Gennadiy Golovkin gave Canelo Alvarez an intense smile as they parted onstage Friday after their ceremonial weigh-in.
Now that they’ve made weight in a packed arena outside T-Mobile Arena, these rivals only have to wait another 24 hours for their third fight. Four years and two days after Alvarez won their 12-round middleweight championship rematch by majority decision, they will return to T-Mobile Arena to compete in another 12-round bout for the IBF super middleweight crowns. the WBA, the WBC and the WBO of Álvarez.
Mexico’s Alvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs), who is 5-0 in super middleweight fights, stepped on the Nevada State Athletic Commission scale at 167.4 pounds Friday morning during a weigh-in. official meeting held behind closed doors.
Alvarez, 32, dropped back down to the super middleweight division to take on Golovkin. The Guadalajara native weighed in at 174½ pounds in his last fight, a 12-round unanimous decision loss to WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) on May 7 at T-Mobile Arena. .
The 40-year-old Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs), who will make his debut at the super middleweight limit, officially weighed in at a career-high 167.8 pounds. Prior to Friday afternoon, Kazakhstan’s Golovkin had never weighed more than 163 pounds for a professional fight, his official catchweight for a fourth-round knockout of Toronto’s Steve Rolls in June 2019 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. .
Caesars Sportsbook listed Alvarez as a 5-1 favorite on Friday, despite the thoroughly competitive nature of his first two fights.
His third fight will headline a DAZN Pay-Per-View show that is available through the DAZN app, as well as through cable and satellite providers. The official weights for the seven fights on the Alvarez-Golovkin undercard are listed below.
DAZN Pay Per View
8 p.m. ET; 5 p.m. (Pacific Time)
$64.99 for subscribers; $84.99 for non-subscribers
Jesse Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs), San Antonio, 114.8 pounds vs. Israel Gonzalez (28-4-1, 11 KOs), Los Cabos, Mexico, 114.6 pounds, 12 rounds for Rodriguez’s WBC super flyweight title.
Ali Akhmedov (18-1, 14 KOs), Almaty, Kazakhstan, 167.8 lbs. Gabe Rosado (26-15-1, 15 KOs, 1 NC), Philadelphia, 167.6 pounds, 10 rounds, super middleweight.
Austin Williams (11-0, 9 KOs), Milwaukee, 160 pounds vs. Kieron Conway (18-2-1, 4 KOs), Northampton, England, 159.2 pounds, 10 rounds, middleweight.
Undercard bouts
DAZN
4:45 p.m. ET; 1:45 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Diego Pacheco (15-0, 12 KOs), Los Angeles, 167 pounds vs. Enrique Collazo (16-2-1, 11 KOs), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 167.8 pounds, 10 rounds, super middleweight.
Marc Castro (7-0, 5 KOs), Fresno, California, 134.4 pounds vs. Kevin Montiel Mendoza (6-1-2, 3 KOs), Mexico City, 135.2 pounds, 8 rounds, lightweight.
Aaron Aponte (6-0, 2 KOs), Hialeah, Florida, 139.8 pounds; Fernando Molina (8-0, 3 KOs), Guadalajara, Mexico, 140 pounds, eight rounds, junior welterweight.
Anthony Herrera (2-0-1, 2 KOs), Los Angeles, 114.8 pounds vs. Delvin McKinley (4-3-1, 4 KOs), New Orleans, 116 pounds, 6 rounds, junior flyweight.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.
