By Dan Ambrose: In his recent win over WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout last month, WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) scaled in at 172 lbs after rehydrating for the bout after making the 154 pound limit a day earlier.
That’s 18 pounds of rehydration weight that Canelo gained back, and obviously that can’t be good for the human body to strip off that much water weight in dehydrating and then putting it back on within 24 hours to fight. The 172 pounds puts Canelo squarely in the light heavyweight class, because the 168 division ends at 168 and anything from 169 to 175 is considered a light heavyweight.