What difference will weight make in the Floyd - Alvarez fight

[IamInuit]

Yeah he will need an IV bag to make it to the ring. He might only be 170 at fight time instead of 171

[Gandalf]

Yeah he will need an IV bag to make it to the ring. He might only be 170 at fight time instead of 171

Hilarious, but irrelevant to the fact that he will be starving himself for a week to make the fight. Of course he will hydrate, but the draining is horrendous and more significant. You cannot train as well on a lettuce diet and that is what he will need to wipe off the hardest pounds.

[IamInuit]

Yeah he will need an IV bag to make it to the ring. He might only be 170 at fight time instead of 171

Hilarious, but irrelevant to the fact that he will be starving himself for a week to make the fight. Of course he will hydrate, but the draining is horrendous and more significant. You cannot train as well on a lettuce diet and that is what he will need to wipe off the hardest pounds.

Hilarious indeed. Then tell him to fight in a different weight class. Real simple. Its not rocket science. 2 pounds of water is DICK. That is a fact in this case and not an opinion.

[bigstinkybug]

i think the weight difference will be obvious...
Canelo is a bigger guy, his body is bigger..he'll weigh in at 165lbs for the fight... May will be 147 or so... believe me, u'll see a difference. that's why many trainers r kinda baffled that May took the fight... he'll be fighting a super middleweight the night of the fight. Canelo is a solid middleweight fighter.. this is the weight he's best at..PERIOD.
May isn't even a welterweight. May at best is a light welter that's big enough to carry 147 pounds and he's talented enough to beat some pretty good fighters at 147... but he's not at his best there.
a fighter who's true to his craft, will walk around 15 pounds over his weight when not training for a fight... becuz May walks around at 147 pounds doesn't make him a welter...