"Both were 167.5 pounds (75.9kg), half a pound under the super middleweight limit, at the closed-door official weigh-in on Friday morning. They then both tipped the scales at the same weight before about 10,000 fans at T-Mobile Arena hours later. It was a career-high weight for Crawford, a four-division champion who is jumping up from super welterweight in the hope of becoming the first man to win undisputed titles in three weight classes."
"The event capped months of intense promotion for the fight by both boxers and White, a personal friend of United States President Donald Trump, who aims to hold a mixed martial arts event at the White House in 2026. I've prepared for everything, Alvarez assured the partisan crowd, there to back him on the weekend before Mexican Independence Day. Alvarez is the only fighter to hold all four major belts in the super middleweight division."
Both fighters weighed in at 167.5 pounds, half a pound under the super middleweight limit, first at a closed-door official weigh-in and later before about 10,000 fans at T-Mobile Arena. The weigh-in represented a career-high weight for Terence Crawford as he moves up from super welterweight to challenge Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez. Crawford seeks to become the first man to win undisputed titles in three weight classes. Alvarez holds all four major super middleweight belts, has fought at 168 pounds or above for nearly seven years, and the bout is being co-promoted by Dana White and Riyadh Season and streamed by Netflix.
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