Schaefer:No rehydration limit for Mayweather-Canelo- Pas de limite de réhydratation pour Mayweather-Canelo

By Dan Ambrose: The September 14th fight between WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and unbeatenFloyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) will have no rehydration clause in the contract for their catch-weight fight at 152 pounds, according to Steve Kim.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is saying that the rehydration clause wasn’t included. What this means, of course, is that Canelo can rehydrate as much as much as he wants.
If Canelo wants to rehydrate to 172 lbs. like he did in his last fight in April against Austin Trout, then there’s nothing stopping him from doing so.

I’m respecting Mayweather a ton for letting Canelo take the fight without a clause because the chances are Mayweather is going to be out-weighed by 26-30 pounds for this fight. Mayweather stepped inside the ring against Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero at 146 lbs. on May 4th of this month, and that’s after rehydrating. Actually didn’t need to rehydrate because he walks around in the mid-140s during training.
In contrast, Canelo made the 154 lb. weight for his fight against Trout last month and then quickly rehydrated 18 pounds to 172 lbs. If Canelo and Mayweather step inside the ring on September 14th weighing what they did in their last fights, then Canelo will have a 26 lb. weight advantage over Mayweather.
This is great because Mayweather gets to prove that he can beat a full middleweight on September 14th because that’s pretty much what Canelo is – a middleweight who rehydrates to light heavyweight. I know he fights in the junior middleweight class, but he’s essentially a middleweight that works incredibly hard to lose close to 20 lbs. of water weight.
It’s going to be a little harder for Canelo in this fight because he’s going to have to lose an extra two pounds to get down to 152 to make the catch-weight. One wonders whether Canelo will just blow it off and take the penalty and come in at 154. That’s my guess. The fight is officially a catch-weight, but there’s nothing keeping Canelo from coming in at 154 and then paying the fine with all the money he gets.
I think Canelo would rather be strong and have a chance to win than worrying about the money he’ll lose by coming over the catch-weight limit. Knowing Mayweather, he probably didn’t make a big fuss about creating a huge weight penalty that would be a true deterrent for Canelo to come at that right weight.
Without the huge penalty for weight, I can see Canelo coming in at 154. He won’t want to come in heavier than that because he doesn’t want to lose his two titles, but he likely will choose to ignore the catch-weight limit.