Canelo – Crawford shows why Fury – Joshua is a joke

Eddie Hearn has been insisting that a fight between faded, spoiled and well-maneuvered British heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is the “biggest fight in commercial boxing”.

Fans outside the UK would prefer to see a real fight where Canelo Alvarez fights Terence Crawford, David Benavidez, Artur Beterbiev or Dmitry Bivol. Those are real fights involving fighters who are still relatively close to their prime.

ESPN’s Mike Coppinger believes Canelo-Crawford is a bigger fight than Fury-Joshua. It looks like the fight is doing 1 million PPV buys in the US alone, which it could do. It would certainly generate bigger numbers than a Joshua vs. Fury fight on pay-per-view on the American side. It’s still not the most important fight Canelo would make. A fight between him and David Benavidez would be much bigger than one involving Crawford, but he doesn’t want to fight the ‘Mexican Monster.’

So, Crawford is the best we can get right now, and that fight is even bigger than the one involving ‘The Gypsy King’ and AJ. Both guys just lost. Daniel Dubois knocked out Joshua and Fury was defeated twice in a row by Oleksandr Usyk. Under those sorry conditions, how do promoters like Hearn try to sell a fight between Fury and Joshua on pay-per-view, promoting it as the “biggest fight in boxing”?

Sell ​​a failure

People know what Fury-Joshua is about: money for them and the promoters. Trying to sell a fight between Joshua and Fury now at this late stage in their careers won’t work outside of the UK.

The British will probably accept it. They will probably want to see it in large numbers and would pay anything to see their old heroes come to the fore once again in their golden years. Fans in the US will NOT be interested, especially if the loser is loaded with domestic brush like the Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk 2 and the events Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois.

“Canelo-Crawford is much bigger commercially. Bigger miles. It will easily eclipse 1 million PPV buys in the US at $80 (or thereabouts) and reach a gate above $20 million. “Sorry, @EddieHearn,” Mike Coppinger said on unknown.

Joshua-Fury would have been good a decade ago, but even then, he wouldn’t be big outside of the UK. None of these heavyweights were fighting cutting-edge opposition throughout their careers. Part of the problem is that AJ and Fury fought during a weak heavyweight era.

Thus, they were able to feast on fighters like Deontay Wilder, 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin and Kubrat Pulev. When some good fighters finally emerged, like Martin Bakole, they wanted nothing to do with him.