Canelo vs Crawford getting closer..... (wink, wink)

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Most fights are manufactured to an extent. This is the showbiz and marketing side of boxing. This is being brilliantly built. You can see professional marketing and promotional handprints on all of this.

Most big fights do not need to be manufactured to this extent. Crawford is going up two weights against the established champion. There was no demand for this fight by boxing fans but I will be watching in the hope Bud can win.

Then the marketing and promotions is doing its job. For the fact that you admit that there was no real demand, but has you and average fans hyped up about it to be over analyzing it is proof positive.

But being 'hyped up' for something is completely different from simply acknowledging its mere existence . I'll remain pretty skeptical about TKO and Dana riding this as a promotion debut trojan horse into boxing. Canelo literally said he'll get no credit for beating him . And then the Turki came flapping. To me, two of the very best Stateside fighters basically opted out of huge fights in their respected divisions and want to be anointed ATG for it. If anything, this is a backdoor 'name$ meeting for the sake of name$' manufacture on both. Next thing you know we'll have a cruiserweight fighting a lightweight who opted out of big fights also and it will come off as a massive event. But hey boxing.