We’ve waiting all week for this one. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1,. 32 KOs) defends his WBC Welterweight title against Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) in Las Vegas.
They’ve tossed three fights at us before the main event and I’m blowing off two of them. I’ll be picking up the live blog when the David Lemieux (34-3, 3 KOs) takes on Glen Tapia (23-2, 15 KOs) for the vacant WBO NABO middleweight title.
Miguel Iterate did a preview of this fight you can check out here.
As usual, scroll on down for the live blog. Keep reading for the press release from Golden Boy Promotions and HBO.
LAS VEGAS (May 4, 2016) WBC, Ring Magazine and Lineal Middleweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and British top fighter and former two-time world champion Amir “King” Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) met today for one final press conference at the Kà Theater in the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ahead of their middleweight championship mega-fight showdown on May 7 at the new T-Mobile Arena, which will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
Below is what the fighters and their teams had to say at today’s final press conference:
CANELO ALVAREZ, WBC, Ring Magazine and Lineal Middleweight World Champion: “There’s not too much more left to say, the fight is here. I just want to thank each and every one of you for your support and promotion of this fight. I’m very happy with the work I have done. 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. And again, I am much honored to be opening T-Mobile Arena. Come Saturday, I’m excited to yell, ¡Viva Mexico!”
AMIR KHAN, Former Two-Time World Champion: “On Saturday you will see the best of Amir Khan. Canelo is a great champion who is dedicated to the sport of boxing, but it is my time and I’m going to grab it with both hands. It’s been my dream to hold a great fight like this in Las Vegas. And, you never know-this could be the last fight between Canelo and I here in Vegas if Donald Trump is elected president.”
OSCAR DE LA HOYA, Chairman and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions: “It’s great to be beside a fighter who dares to be great. Amir is a hard worker, not only an Olympic silver medalist, but here is a fighter who is a multiple weight world champion, always asking for the big fights and never getting them. Guess what? He’s now here facing the top fighter in the world, and he’s ready for it and excited to face him. Whoever thought that Muhammad Ali could knock out George Foreman? I just talked to Foreman and people were praying he didn’t hurt Ali and look what happened there.
The show is on Pay Per View. Pay to watch it… or, you know, it’s the internet. It’s the wild west out here.
