By Dan Ambrose: WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez says he wanted to fight his next bout at 154lbs for one of the world titles at that weight. However, his May 7 opponent Amir Khan was the one who wanted to fight for his WBC 160lb title, which is why the fight is being contested at a 155lb catch-weight in order to make it an official middleweight fight.
The catch-weight fits into the 155 to 160lb parameters of the middleweight division.
Canelo, 25, doesn’t say which junior middleweight title he would have liked to have fought for, but it’s quite likely he would have dropped down to fight Khan for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title. That’s the belt that was recently stripped from Mayweather after he retired from the sport last September.
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez believes that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is already coming up with excuses to get his fighter WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez out of the fight with Golovkin later this year. 
(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Chris Williams: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and his trainer Abel Sanchez both make it seem like their only focus is capturing the WBC middleweight title by any means necessary. By listening to them speak, you think they don’t care whether they face WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in order to win the belt. I don’t buy it. 
By Dan Ambrose: Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) maybe the underdog in his fight against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) for their scheduled May 7 fight, but Khan thinks Golden Boy Promotions is making a big mistake by matching the red-haired star against him. Khan plans on pulling off the upset, and becoming a huge star in the process. 
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions vice president Eric Gomez says there’s a huge misconception about WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez about him being a middleweight. 
By Adam Godfrey: As I am sure most of us suspect, it’s possible that neither Saul “Canelo” Alvarez or Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions has any intention to allow the cinnamon haired Mexican to fight consensus middleweight King Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin at the middleweight limit of 160lb this year, despite it being mandated in the WBC rules that a catchweight cannot be enforced upon a mandatory challenger such as Golovkin. 
By Dan Ambrose: A lot of boxing fans feel that Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) is making a grave error in stepping up a couple of weight classes to challenge WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) at a catch-weight of 155lbs on May 7. Former world champion Paulie Malignaggi is one of many who thinks this is a bad idea for Khan. 
By Dan Ambrose: If Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya gets his way, his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won’t rehydrate too high for his fight against Amir Khan on May 7 on HBO PPV. De La Hoya thinks it’s a bad idea for Canelo to put on a lot of weight for this fight because he thinks it could lead to him slowing down and not having the speed that he’s going to need to follow the speedy quick Khan around the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Canelo said this week that he could rehydrate as high as 190 for the fight. He sees it as his own business if he chooses to do that. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan says he’s still interested in facing WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia and IBF 147lb champion Kell Brook in the near future after he gets done with his fight against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 7.