(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KOs) was booed heavily by the pro-Canelo crowd in successfully weighing in at 155 pounds on Friday at the weigh-in at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada for his fight on Saturday at a 155 pound catch-weight against former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (43-1-1, 31 KOs).
Lara looked almost in fighting weight and in excellent shape. He didn’t have the look of a fighter who had drained himself of water weight in order to make weight.
There was a quick stare down which was broken up by Lara, as he just shook his head in a way that suggested that Canelo doesn’t have what it takes to compete with him.