Okay, so I got interested in this whole Canelo Alvarez walk-around weight thing not too long ago. You see him fighting at super middleweight, 168 pounds, looking like a tank, and you just start wondering, right? What does this guy weigh when he’s just living his life, not deep in a fight camp cutting down?
My Little Investigation
So, I decided to do some digging myself. It wasn’t like some formal research project, more like me just being curious and poking around. First thing I did was just search online, obviously. You type it in, see what pops up. And let me tell you, you get a whole bunch of numbers right away. Some articles, some forum posts, people throwing out guesses.
It got a bit confusing because the numbers were kind of all over the place. Some said low 180s, some pushed it closer to 190, and you even saw some wilder guesses. It made me realize there probably isn’t one exact number made public all the time. It likely changes depending on how far out he is from a fight, what he’s eating, you know, normal life stuff.
Then I started thinking about his career. I went back and looked at the different weights he’s actually competed at. I remembered thinking about these fights:
- His time campaigning lower, though that was a while back.
- Making that jump up to light heavyweight (175 lbs) that one time.
- Settling in mostly around super middleweight (168 lbs) more recently.
Seeing him fight heavier definitely showed he can carry more weight. And when you see pictures or clips of him between camps, he doesn’t look skinny, that’s for sure. He looks solid, thick. So, that told me his natural weight has got to be comfortably above his fighting weight.
Putting it Together
After looking through different sources, considering his fight history, and just using some common sense about how athletes manage weight, I started to form my own conclusion based on my little search. I wasn’t finding some secret official document, you know? It was more about gathering the clues.
So, based on everything I saw and read during my search, I feel pretty comfortable saying his walk-around weight is likely somewhere in the mid-180s to low-190s pounds range. That seems to be the most consistent estimate I came across and it makes sense for a guy who has to cut down to 168 but has also fought effectively at 175.
It’s quite a process these fighters go through. Packing on muscle, staying fit, but also enjoying life a bit between the grueling camps, and then shedding that extra weight to hit the mark on weigh-in day. Just tracking down this simple piece of info was an interesting little exercise for me.
