Kenny Bayless will be the referee for Canelo vs GGG

Kenny Bayless will serve as the referee for the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin middleweight championship fight on Saturday night (HBO, 8 ET) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He was appointed Monday at a Nevada State Athletic Commission meeting. Also appointed were the judges for the bout, Adalaide Byrd and Dave Moretti, both from Nevada, and Connecticut’s Don Trella.

The commission also appointed officials for the featherweight title elimination fight that will take place on the undercard between Joseph Diaz and Jorge Lara. The referee will be Tony Weeks and the judges are Tim Cheatham and Burt Clements, both from Nevada, and Connecticut’s Glenn Feldman.

Also, officials for the “Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN” main event between interim featherweight titlist Claudio Marrero and Jesus Rojas were appointed: referee Russell Mora and judges Robert Hoyle and Patricia Morse Jarman, both from Nevada, and California’s Max De Luca.