By M. Khan: Tonight’s match-ups between Floyd Mayweather and Saul “Canelo: Alvarez and Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse in Las Vegas, Nevada are an example of old school promoting. Its almost reminds us that boxing was a sport of pride and a way out of the gutters for most fighters.
In the old days we would never had a discussion on what grounds and satisfaction would the fighters be fighting. I accept that we should never over look the fact that boxing is a business but it must not take front seat over the pride of fighting.
By Dan Ambrose: If you saw Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer at yesterday’s weigh-in with WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather Jr., you’d think that Schaefer was ready to break out the pom poms and start cheerleading after Canelo made the 152 lb. catch-weight. Schaefer was all over Canelo, praising him for simply doing his job by coming in at the agreed upon weight. 
By Allan Fox: ESPN’s Dan Rafael is going with the smart picks for tonight’s mega fight card on Showtime pay-per-view by selecting Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) to top Mexico’s No.1 boxing star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s), and Argentinian Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) over WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) by knockout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
By Dan Ambrose: The 23-year-old inexperienced WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) decided to play a bit of psychological gamesmanship with the kind of boxing Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) during Thursday weigh-in by refusing Mayweather’s request for him to hold one side of the newly created supposedly pure gold WBC 154 lb. title strap so that the 12,200 fans that attended the weigh-in could snap pictures. 
By Chester Rivers: They say a picture is worth a thousand words but at first glance at Danny Garcia and Saul Alvarez body language at the live weigh-in I could only say two words, “Oh No”! Both fighters barely made weight and it showed. Both fighters also looked very nervous and dehydrated.
By Vitali Shaposhnikov: While I am used to seeing a lot of support from the Mexican boxing fans when it comes to their fighter facing anyone, especially Mayweather Jr., this time the entire scene was alien to me. 
By Dan Ambrose: A painfully thin WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) unbelievably made weight today in weighing in at 152 pounds on the button to make the 152 lb. catch-weight for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Vegas, Nevada. 
(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Michael Turturice: On every blog, sport writers website and talk show the only topic this week is WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s (42-0-1 with 30 KO’s) weight for Saturday’s fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hell it was even streamed on an electronic billboard in Times Square. Hear me folks this is just a distraction! Floyd Mayweather Sr. has come out and said this morning that he “knows” Alvarez is still trying to make weight to today’s weight-in at the MGM Grand. 
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. says that WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) is still battling hard just to try and get down to the 152 lb. catch-weight for today’s weigh-in at 2:30 p.m. for his fight on Saturday night against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0. 26 KO’s). 
by James Le Blanc: Who saw Dan Rafael set the record straight on ESPN First Take about the recent ‘boxing is dead’ assessment. I was also particularly happy to see him call out Skip Bayless for not knowing what a catch-weight was and starting a controversy over it. The catch-weight agreement between Floyd Mayweather and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has had particular attention because Mayweather criticized his rival Manny Pacquiao for forcing his fighters to fight at catch weights.