The promoter Dana White calls Canelo Alvarez’s fight against Terence Crawford “one of the biggest fights of all time” for their September 13 superfight in Las Vegas. A great marketing thrust is made for this fight, but she has still not caught fire with the average American fan.
Given the lack of real interest in the fight of Canelo-Crawford, it will not even be the second biggest fight in 2025, compared to the fights in 2024.
Is Canelo-Crawford a gadget?
It is a type of bizarre gadget, accompanied by an aging aging fighter, Crawford (41-0, 31 kB), passing to 168 to challenge Canelo (63-2-2-2, 39 KOS) for its unknown average weight championship.
Crawford is given the luxury of skipping the laborious hassles of making a way in a title shot to go directly to a fight for the title. Although it is great for him, it made the fight false. He withdrew a lot of interest which would be there if Crawford had crossed the best candidates one by one to win the blow to Canelo.
“I have been a big boxing fan since I was a child. I would not be sitting here today if it was not for boxing. For it to be the first boxing match that I promote is an absolute honor,” Dana White told Ring magazine YouTube Channel, speaking of the fight against Canelo Alvarez against Terence Crawford on September 13.
White’s “biggest fight” claim
“These are two of the greatest of all time and One of the biggest fights of all time in the history of sport. It’s a very proud moment for me, and I did a lot in my career, ”said White.
Dana White goes too far with her praise of the fight of Canelo-Crawford, with him telling him that he ranks as one of the “greatest fights” in the history of sport. Considering that there is only Moderate buzz About the fight on social networks suggests that this is not one of the greatest fights.
The amount of interest in the Canelo fight against Crawford is undoubtedly lower than that of last year’s mega-combat between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney. Three months before this fight, there was already a huge interest in fans.
People yapping constantly on this subject on X. On the other hand, the discussion of fans on Canelo-Crawford is generally light to moderate daily, with many people criticizing it, calling it as a seizure of money and saying that it should not even be authorized because of the weight jumping to two division for Crawford.
Historical fights against Canelo-Crawford
- Muhammad Ali against Joe Frazier 1 & 3
- Oscar de la Hoya against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Muhammad Ali against George Foreman
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Manny Pacquiao
- Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran 1 & 2
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Conor McGregor
- Sugar Ray Leonard against Thomas Hearns
- Marvin Hagler against Thomas Hearns
- Sugar Ray Leonard against Marvin Hagler
- Joe Louis against Max Schmeling II
- Mike Tyson against Evander Holyfield II
- Canelo Alvarez against Gennadiy Golovkin I & 2
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. against Canelo Alvarez
- Lennox Lewis against Mike Tyson
- Arturo Gatti against Micky Ward
Last update on 06/27/2025
