By Adam Shergold for MailOnline
Published: 08:25 BST, 4 May 2019 | Updated: 08:25 BST, 4 May 2019
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Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Daniel Jacobs had to be pulled apart as the weigh-in ahead of their middleweight unification bout became heated.
Mexican fighter 'Canelo' will put his WBA 'Super' and WBC belts on the line when he faces IBF champion Jacobs at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in the early hours of Sunday morning.
American Jacobs was right on the middleweight limit at 160lbs, while Canelo tipped the scales a fraction under at 159.5lbs.
Tempers flared between Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (left) and Daniel Jacobs (right) at the weigh-in ahead of Saturday's title fight
Insults and angry words were exchanged between the two fighters, who had to be dragged away by their entourages
A furious 'Canelo' points at Jacobs as security intervenes as tempers boiled over at the weigh-in in Las Vegas
The two fighters had stood forehead-to-forehead before Jacobs said something that sparked the skirmish
The pair then went face-to-face, pushing their foreheads together to roars from the crowd, but that's when tempers flared.
It seems Jacobs wound Canelo up with a few choice words and a slight head push and the Mexican reacted with a hard shove.
Words were still being exchanged as Golden Boy
