Canelo Alvarez predicts that his possible fight against Terence Crawford in September will produce more payment purchases by vision than his mega-star against the superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013. That fight brought 2.2 million PPV purchases In Showtime.
The unified struggle of the super medium-sized Álvarez weight champion against the 40-year-old Crawford (41-0, 31 KO) is said to be shown in Netflix as part of Tko boxing. Unfortunately, that does not sound based on reality. Crawford is not a popular fighter among non -hardcore boxing fans.
Bigger than Floyd?
While Turki Alalshikh He likes Bud Crawford and enjoys his defensive counterpunction style, American fans have never been excited about his career. They have not shown interest in their career as they have done with fighters with more entertaining styles, such as Errol Spence (before their car accident), Canelo, David Benavidez and Gervonta Davis.
Turki has chosen the wrong fighter to hook his car because American fans are not excited about Crawford. They do not like the idea behind 40 years to raise two kinds of weight to challenge Canelo for their 168 pound titles. That is a trick fight.
The Native of Omaha, Nebraska, Crawford lacks the exciting style and the charisma to be a great attraction of PPV for a fight against Canelo. He has not made any effort to increase his popularity in social networks such as other fighters, and now it is too late for him to begin to build in that area
Crawford numbers
– Israil Madrimov: 200,000 purchases in Dazn and ESPN
– Errol Spence: 700,000 in Showtime
– David Avanesyan: 120,000 in Blk Prime
– Shawn Porter: 190,000 in ESPN
– Amir Khan: 200,000 in ESPN
– Postol Viktor: 60,000 in HBO
The only fight in Crawford’s career that has brought good PPV numbers was his fight against Errol Spence Jr. in 2023. The success of that event was due to Spence, not Crawford. It is not a tie for vision and its recent fight against Israil Madrimov showed that with the mediocre numbers he brought.
“I think it’s going to be bigger, even Mayweather’s fight. It will be bigger than that, ”said Canelo Álvarez to TV ifl About his potential fight against Terence Crawford, he is larger than his match against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013 in Showtime. “Yes, I think so (Canelo-Crawford will make more payment purchases by vision than Mayweather-Canelo’s fight).”
Even with Netflix that shows Canelo vs. fight. Crawford will probably make less numbers than Álvarez’s last fight against Edgar Berlanga on September 14. That event brought 650,000 shopping.
Last update on 07/07/2025