THE TALL ORDER
AGE AND PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT
ALVAREZ: Canelo is 30 years old and has never looked stronger. Once upon a time he was a welterweight. He won his first world title at a catchweight below the super-welter limit in 2011. He was monstrously strong at 154lbs and is a natural middleweight. Yet in November of last year he was fighting up at light-heavy and stopping no less a foe than world champion Sergey Kovalev. The only question mark is what kind of a toll moving up in weight and back down to super-middle will have on his body. He has though yo-yo-ed up and down in weight before and seemingly thrived through it.
SMITH: The Liverpudlian is almost the same age as Canelo, just four months his rival’s senior. He’s not only a very good super-middleweight, he’s a big super-middleweight too. At six-foot-three to
