It's fight night in Las Vegas this week as all eyes will be on the T-Mobile Arena for the biggest boxing match thus far in 2019. Canelo Alvarez will put his pair of middleweight titles (along with the lineal crown) on the line against IBF champ Daniel Jacobs in a 160-pound unification bout from Las Vegas on Saturday night (9 p.m. ET, watch exclusively on DAZN).
Alvarez (51-1-2, 35 KOs) will be getting into the ring for the first time in 2019, and this will mark his second fight since signing a five-year, 11-fight deal with streaming service DAZN in October. In 2018, Alvarez first defeated Gennady Golovkin via majority decision for the WBA and WBC middleweight titles in their highly-anticipated rematch, and he followed that up in December with a third-round knockout of a very overmatched Rocky Fielding to become the WBA regular super middleweight champion.
Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) has won his last three fights since losing to GGG in March 2017. He defeated Luis Arias and Maciej Sulecki in unanimous decisions, and most recently beat Serhiy Derevianchenko via split decision in October to claim the IBF middleweight title. It is the first time since a 2010 loss to Dmitry Pirog that Jacobs is fighting in Las Vegas.
Jacobs also came in at the weight limit on Friday, but missed the rehydration limit of 170 pounds on Saturday morning and faces a $250,000 fine for each pound he missed weight by. The move may have been strategic by Jacobs, who employed a similar tactic when he faced Golovkin in 2017.
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Below you can have a look at the odds for the main card via Westgate that is set to take place on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, with Alvarez vs. Jacobs as the main event for the night. (Note: Westgate does not have odds posted for undercard bouts. Those odds are via Bovada.)
Canelo vs. Jacobs card, odds
| Favorite | Underdog | Weight class |
|---|---|---|
Canelo Alvarez (c) -455 | Daniel Jacobs +350 | Middleweight titles |
| Vergil Ortiz Jr. -2500 | Mauricio Herrera +9000 | Junior welterweights |
Lamont Roach Jr. -450 | Jonathan Oquendo +325 | Super featherweights |
Joseph Diaz Jr. -3500 | Freddy Fonseca +1200 | Super featherweights |
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