As the undisputed junior middleweight champion, Jermell Charlo is a bigger man than undisputed super middleweight champ Canelo Alvarez.
Yet, that doesn't mean that the 154-pound king doesn't need a strategy on the scale approaching his super fight against the Mexican sensation September 30 in Las Vegas.
Charlo recently revealed part of his strategy for hitting 168 pounds on the scale in just over a month's time.
"I had to tune in a little bit different but eat a little bit different," Charlo told "Big Boy's Neighborhood" in an interview posted Monday about how he's preparing to make weight for the biggest fight of his career.
"When I started getting a little bit big, I'm like, I don't want to be slow.
"I can't walk around at 168 [pounds]," he added. "I got to walk around probably like 175, 180 or something like that to drop back down to 168 so I can have my muscle and my speed because once you lose the weight, you're going to feel faster.
"But if you just walk around at that weight, you're always going to feel heavy."
He tacked on and reiterated for good measure: "If I'm moving up to 168, I gotta go to 180, 181, and then just drop back down."
Despite Alvarez being the crown holder at super middleweight, he stands 5'8" to Charlo's 5'11".