Weigh-in: Canelo Alvarez looking very good; Josesito Alvarez looks slightly pudgy around the midsection

By Boxing News - 09/14/2012 - Comments

Image: Weigh-in: Canelo Alvarez looking very good; Josesito Alvarez looks slightly pudgy around the midsection(Photo Credit: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME) By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) looked incredibly sharp and in top shape during Friday’s weigh-in with Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) for their fight tomorrow night on Showtime at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Canelo weighed in at a healthy looking 154 pounds at the weigh-in, and showed absolutely no signs of being weigh-drained.

For his part, the 28-year-old Lopez looked kind of flabby around the middle in weighing in at 153 lbs. My guess is Lopez wasn’t able to pack on pure muscle in moving up in weight from 147 and had to settle for putting on some flab. It’s not easy putting a muscle weight in three months.

The body can only put on muscle slowly, and it looks like Lopez tried to do it in a hurry by eating too much, and some of those calories appeared to settle around his abdomen and shoulders. All that useless blubber is going to be like fish weights hanging off of Lopez, slowing him down to where he’ll be dragged down into the depths by Alvarez and taken out tomorrow night. It’s too bad because I was hoping for a good fight, but Lopez lost the fight in training camp and at the dinner table it seems.

I think the added weight is going to slow Lopez down considerably tomorrow night, enough to where he’ll no chance of winning the fight. I was hoping that Lopez would be smart and train for this fight as if he were fighting at light welterweight, because he’d come in great shape and still have his speed. But in looking at his physique, I think that Lopez over did it with the eating in trying to put on weight and it’s probably hurt him when he’s slow tomorrow night.

Other weights on the card:

Jhonny Gonzalez 125 lbs vs. Daniel Ponce De Leon 125 1/2 lbs

Marcos Maidana 147 lbs vs. Jesus Soto-Karass 147 lbs

Leon Santa Cruz 117 lbs vs. Eric Morel 118 lbs



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