Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn: Canelo-GGG III Is 10 Times Bigger Fight Than Spence-Crawford

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Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn will promote a Canelo Alvarez fight for the fifth time when the undisputed super middleweight champion takes on Gennadiy Golovkin on Sept. 17 on DAZN pay-per-view at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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[juanpablo]

I agree with Hearn, Canelo-GGG III is a fight for both hardcore and casual fans and way bigger than Spence-Crawford from a commercial perspective but Spence-Crawford is a higher quality fight, no doubt

[ralex]

It may be a bigger fight but 10 times bigger is an exaggeration

[elfag]

what sucks is hes half right.

yeah exaggerated but it will sell well and get more casual interest even though crawford-spence is way more evenly matched and we havent seen it twice already

[Liondw]

It's not a better fight, although loved the rematch, but it's not ten times bigger

For hardcore fans, of course Spence-Crawford is bigger, in terms of top fighters we haven't seen fight each other yet. But I don't think Spence and Crawford are as great as made out to be, if I look at previous era's, but they're excellent.

[SteveM]

It may be a bigger fight but 10 times bigger is an exaggeration

Agreed. But hey! He'd be a **** promoter if he didn't exaggerate.

Lot of Hearn haters on this site. He's a gobby, silver spoon fed, interloper Brit on the American boxing scene. He exaggerates and is sometimes a hypocrite - but so are Oscar and Arum and Warren.

But he talks a lot of sense and takes us less for fools than other promoters as per his comments in this article.

[rudy]

Both are unbeaten it does not get better than that. Two white fighters he means

[War Room]

Canelo vs GGG by an absolute mile, and by the way, Spence-Crawford is a great fight, a great fight for boxing, but anyone with a brain knows the answer to that question. It depends on how hardcore they were.

I think if you’re a super hardcore fan, you’ve been waiting for Spence-Crawford for a long time. But if you want to talk about media attention, if you want to talk about the gate, if you want to take about pay-per-view numbers, viewership, global reach, commercial revenue, closed-circuit, it’s not even close.

But I think if you’re a super hardcore fan, you’ve been waiting for Spence-Crawford for a long time. So you may choose that over Canelo-GGG if you’re a super hardcore fan, but the casual fans are the ones that are going to generate the numbers.

If you talk about the revenue generated on a fight, it’s like, God knows, it’s like 10 times as big [for Canelo-Golovkin over Spence-Crawford], but Spence-Crawford is a brilliant fight and I think it’s right up there with Canelo-GGG, of course.

I hate to say it, but he's not wrong and it goes to show you what's wrong with boxing and the world at large today.

A cheater, fight fixer, and cherry-picker is going to drink up the ppvb's, revenue, and fame over the two best in the division locking horns for all the marbles.

[JonEC]

Once again, Fantastic Mr. Fox reveals what he values most. Dollar-wise, he’s probably right. Which fight true boxing fans would rather see…totally wrong.

[SteveM]

It's not a better fight, although loved the rematch, but it's not ten times bigger

For hardcore fans, of course Spence-Crawford is bigger, in terms of top fighters we haven't seen fight each other yet. But I don't think Spence and Crawford are as great as made out to be, if I look at previous era's, but they're excellent.

Totally agree, especially about Spence. He's a dog and a helluva fighter but he'd lose to many w.weights from the past thirty years. He's in no hurry to go to 154 either. Bud at least talks as if he will.