LAS VEGAS: Gennady Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez faced off for the final time ahead of their eagerly awaited rematch here Friday (Saturday in Manila) as they comfortably made the weight for their middleweight grudge match.

Kazakh fighter Golovkin, the defending WBA, WBC and IBO champion, tipped the scales slightly heavier at 159.6 pounds (72.4 kgs) before a crowd of several thousand fans at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena.