'Canelo' Alvarez Vs. 'King' Khan: Live Stream Weigh-In From Las Vegas

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Amir Khan faces Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on Saturday (Sunday in the Uk)  at 9 p.m. May 7, 2016,  at the new, 20,000 capacity, T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.The HBO pay-per-view main event promises to be an exciting, fast-action bout, with Canelo Alvarez defending his WBC middleweight boxing title.

'King' Khan (31-3, 19 KOs)will be moving up two weight divisions to take on Alvarez(46-1-1, 32 KOs)  who is the favourite going into the weigh in. After the Khan camp asked the Alvarez camp to refrain from re-hydrating, and the request was rejected, it looks like Khan will be facing a much bigger man than anticipated. Certainly not a 160-pound middleweight.

Many people see this fight as a one-sided mismatch, but it is also an intriguing fight, due to the fact that Canelo may be underestimating Khan.

Canelo said of Khan "Khan is a very fast, very elusive and very tricky fighter. But I am happy with the work I have done and I am ready to go in the ring and break him down.”

Khan sees his moving up in weight divisions more of challenge and something that boxers should practice more often, especially young boxers. 

Khan commented on his decision to move up, "It's a great jump for me to take, and it's a great message to send to young boxers: You should take these fights, this is what boxing's about. If you want to be honored as a great champion, you have to take these risks sometimes."


The weigh in Friday, May 6:
 





Rashidi Ellis Vs. Marco Antonio Lopez,    Welterweight- 8 rounds
      
Diego De La Hoya Vs. Rocco Santomauro,    Super Bantamweight- 10 rounds
      
Jason Quigley  Vs. James De la Rosa,    Middleweight- 10 rounds
      
Lamont Roach Vs. TBA,                    Lightweight- 4 rounds
    
David Mijares Vs. Omar Reyes,            Super Lightweight- 4 rounds

Patrick Teixeira vs. Curtis Stevens, Middleweight- 10 rounds

Mauricio Herrera vs. Frankie Gomez, Welterweight- 10 rounds

David Lemieux vs. Glen Tapia, Middleweight- 10 rounds

Canelo Alvarez vs. Amir Khan, Catchweight [155 pounds] 12 rounds





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The 2015 Boxing Glove Awards: The Squeaky Wheel: Ward Haye Khan

The Boxing Glove Awards 2015
Squeaky Wheel Award
Amir Khan, David Haye, and Andre Ward

The Squeaky Wheel award is won by the boxer (or boxers) who generally do more talking than fighting.  A Squeaky Wheel likes to talk about the opponents he is going to face and beat, the big fights he has lined up, and yet, when it comes down to it, something invariably happens to scupper these big fights.  Usually it is the squeaky wheel himself who find s a reason or a way to get out of the fights that he had seemed so intent upon taking just a short while earlier.

Amir Khan is an inveterate ‘Squeaky Wheel.’ His pronouncements upon his ‘inevitable’ showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. have become almost legendary over the past few years.  Unfortunately, Khan has been doing more talking about how, when and why, he should be given a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr., more than he has been fighting in the ring.  Since his July 2012 defeat at the hands of Danny Garcia, Khan has had just 5 fights, and while he has won them all, he has hardly been impressive. While he has been so eager for a big fight (and huge payday) against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Khan has been more than reticent about a possible match up with fellow Brit, Kell Brook. With Mayweather now seemingly ‘retired’ and Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley set to fight each other (again!) rather than Khan, a match against IBF world welterweight champion Brook is far and away the biggest paying match that Khan can hope for at this point in his career, yet still Khan squeaks, rather than fight.

During the “Super Six Super Middleweight Tournament” Andre Ward proved himself to be the best Super-middleweight in the world and one of the best boxers in the world pound-for-pound. The future seemed bright for Andre. However, since his impressive December 2011 victory over Carl Froch, Ward has fought just 3 times, with his most demanding opponent in that time being a weight drained Chad Dawson.

There have been injuries, and promotional disputes, but there has also been a great deal of ‘squeaking’ from Andre Ward of late. He seemed annoyed when the much lighter Gennady Golovkin decided that the time wasn’t right to move up in weight and challenge Ward.  He then talked about a late 2016 showdown with light heavyweight world champion Sergy Kovalev, but only after having a number of ‘warm up’ fights.  The first ‘warm up’ fight was due to take place in November, but after Ward’s choice of opponent was widely criticized, Ward pulled out of the fight.  Ward’s only fight of 2015 was an undemanding and unimpressive performance against Paul Smith in June.

Ward is scheduled to fight next in March 2016, against an opponent, yet to be named, but Wards fights have a habit of constantly falling through, and at this point, one hopes that Sergy Kovalev is not pinning all his hopes for 2016 upon a big fight with Andre Ward.

David Haye is as adept at squeaking as Amir Khan, and has managed to keep his name alive with a series of abandoned big fights and cancelled comebacks. The squeaks became louder this year, with the rise of Anthony Joshua, and Tyson Fury winning the World heavyweight title, David Haye has been finally dragged out from his semi-retirement, and is due to have his first fight in 3 and a half years on January 16, 2016.  Haye is already demanding a fight with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua before he has even had his first come back fight. The guy never stops squeaking.

Copyright © 2016 The Boxing Glove, Inc. Peter Silkov Art. All Rights Reserved. Peter Silkov contributes to www.theboxingglove.com