By Dan Ambrose: Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) is six days away from challenging the younger, bigger, and stronger WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) next Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Khan has bulked up for this fight and is said to be heavier than he’s ever been before. Khan said recently that he expects to be in the 160lbs on fight night. It should be easy for him to make the 155lb catch-weight that Canelo insisted on, and then rehydrated from five to 10 pounds to come into the fight in the 160s.
By Patrick McHugh: Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions is totally focused on WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s next fight against Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) on May 7 next week. Loeffler wants to match his fighter interim WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) against the winner of that fight. 
(Photo credit: Premier Boxing Champions) By Dan Ambrose: Andre Berto is picking Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) to defeat WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) in their fight on May 7. 
By Dan Ambrose: WBA World welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman says that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has advised the 25-year-old WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) to stay away from fighting unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs). 
By Rob Blakeman: So, one of these men is exaggerated and we are about to discover which. Amir Khan against Mexican Champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez for the World Middleweight Title is set for May the 7th and it makes for an intriguing matchup. The British man Khan still calls himself ‘King’ despite three losses, (two by knockout) and all three by second and third tier fighters at best. 
By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions should either put off a fight between Canelo and unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) until Golovkin gets old or until someone else comes along and eventually beats the Kazakhstan star. 
By Yannis Mihanos: Last Saturday night IBF/IBO/WA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) made easy work of little known Dominic Wade (19-1, 12 KOs) in stopping him in the 2nd at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Golovkin’s performance last weekend performance proved for one more time that he is one gear ahead of his competitors in the middleweight division.
By Dan Ambroe: WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez says a fight against Manny Pacquiao can take place later this year. He says it’s a rumor right now, but a fight that could still take place. A fight against Pacquiao would get Canelo off the hook for having to fight his WBC mandatory challenger Gennady GGG Golovkin in late 2016. 
By Jeff Aranow: If Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya’s predictions come true, the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan will be bringing in twice the pay-per-view numbers on HBO than last November’s fight between Canelo and Miguel Cotto. 
By Daniel Arissol: On May 7th in the T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas, Nevada the boxing world casts its eyes over the WBC middleweight showdown between the champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and challenger Amir ‘King’ Khan. When this match up was first announced eyebrows were raised at the prospect of a welterweight fighter moving up two weight divisions to take on one of the most explosive and dominant middleweights of the current era.