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"If I'm not mistaken," Mayweather told Ben Thompson of Fighthype, "They came on record and said they wanted to meet at a catchweight, so we came up with 152 and both parties said we're comfortable with that. You're going to hear people criticize me and say, 'You're doing the same thing Pacquiao is doing, fighting everybody at a catchweight.' No I'm not because Pacquiao presents that to his opponents. Once again, these people brought this to me. They said, 'Well, we'll fight Mayweather at a catchweight.' That's all you had to say. You said that. I didn't bring that to you guys; you guys brought that to me."
Alvarez trainer, "Chepo" Reynoso, has a slightly different version of the story.
"Those two pounds that we're sacrificing was a condition to get the Mayweather fight," Reynoso told Boxingscene. "He wanted 150 pounds and we requested 152, and I think in the end we did well...If we did not give up those two pounds, he wouldn't fight. Besides, Mayweather wanted to fight at 147, then 150. Fortunately, Richard Schaefer is a great negotiator. Everyone did their part to get this achieved."
Technically, Alvarez did say that he'd be willing to go down to 150 lbs. to make a Mayweather fight, but that was way back in 2011 when facing "Money" was just a pipe dream for the young fighter from Guadalajara. To hold him to those words more than two years later is a real stretch.