.Canelo Álvarez hasn’t lost since his light middleweight bout vs. FloydMayweather in 2013. Can WBA light heavyweight champ Dmitry Bivol (19-0,11 KOs) put up a fight? Here's more on how to watch, the taboo topic surrounding CaneloBivol, odds & more.
Canelo Álvarez, left, and Dmitry Bivol, right, pose next to promoter Eddie Hearn during a ceremonial weigh-in Friday in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS — The main attraction, the reason thousands of fans withstood a broiling, shadeless, 97-degree afternoon for hours Friday, emerged in pink silk Dolce and Gabbana pajamas.is technically the challenger for his fight Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena, but the top-ranked pound-for-pound fighter in the world was given the champion treatment for the weigh-in.
He was presented to the crowd second after a long-winded introduction from the event’s emcee before he stepped on the scale wearing pink Dolce and Gabbana boxers, weighing in at 174.4 pounds for his second career light-heavyweight fight. A mariachi played behind him. The Mexican fighter’s red, white and green sea of fans roared whenever possible.
It was the celebration before the celebration, before the 31-year-old Álvarez steps into the ring for another Cinco de Mayo weekend Vegas special and another presumed victory. His opponent,Bivol, 31, is undefeated, an eight-time defending champion with a good jab and significant size advantage, but he isn’t a draw. He’s relatively unknown. If anything, he’s best known for something nobody around the event seems willing to talk about.