Quick Weights: Alvarado Overweight, Provodnikov 139.8
DENVER — Mike Alvarado came in one pound over the junior welterweight limit for his bout with Ruslan Provodnikov, which will take place Saturday night at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., in a main event being broadcast on HBO’s “World Championship Boxing.” Alvarado has two hours (until about 5:20 p.m. local time, 7:20 p.m. Eastern Time) to lose that pound. Provodnikov, last seen making a jump up to the 147-pound division, dropped back down in weight for this bout and tipped the scales at 139.8 pounds. Alvarado lost a great battle to Brandon Rios in October 2012, getting stopped in the seventh round. Yet Alvarado came back with a different strategy in their March rematch, mixing up boxing and brawling. It worked; Alvarado won a narrow unanimous decision. That brought the 33-year-old from Thornton, Colo., to 34-1 with 23 knockouts.