The poorly promoted fight between Canelo Alvarez and William Scull takes place on Saturday, May 3, and their event on Dazn PPV in Riyadh is no noise.
Marketing failure
Promoters had no effort to build interest among fans for this fight, which costs $ 59.99 for Pay-Per-view. Fans do not know who is the super middle champion IBF Scull (23-0.9 KO), because he never overcame any significant objection during his career.
The way Cuban Scull, 32, won the belt with a controversial 12-round decision in October last year against Vladimir Shishkin, makes boxing fans perceive him as a false belt owner.
The last six of Sculla’s opponents
– Vladimir Shishkin
– Sean Hemphill
– Cristian Fabian Rios
– Abel Nicolas Adriel
– Evgeny Shvedenko
– Deneb Diaz
For Canelo, 34, this fight is to enable him to recover his title IBF 168-Funt, who gave up so that he could choose an straightforward fight with the former Edgar Berlang No. 1 November 14 last year. Instead of defending himself against his mandatory Scull, Canelo, he slowed down so that he could face Berlang in mismatch.
The unquestionable art
The problem is with System of four stripes. Canelo is necessary for Canelo to take up a lasting fight with Scull to regain her IBF title in another flawless fight. This is all for an art Thus, Alvarez can be the undisputed 168-Funt champion when he faces Crawford in October at “Huge Fight” in Las Vegas, Turks Alalshikh.
Part of the marketing of the Canelo-Crawford fight will focus on whether Crawford can capture its third unquestionable division championship. Everything is more interested in the circus fight between Alvarez and Bud, which appears from 154 to challenge him without any experience at the age of 168. This is completely unfair to pretenders in Super Middle weight.
Alvarez is a favorite of 30 to 1 against Scull, showing that this fight will not even be remotely competitive. For fans who saw Scull’s last fight with Vladimir Shishkin, it is not surprising that Canelo is a great favorite. Scull looked terrible.
What the promotion needs so that Crawford leaves the woodwork this week and start talking to Canelo so that the fan will wait for their fight in October. If Bud Crawford can make people predict this competition, they will be more motivated to focus on Saturday’s clash with Scull.
I doubt if Crawford will be created to lend a hand, because it is not promoted by fights, which is one of the reasons why it has not become popular. He is lucky that Turki likes him. If it wasn’t for this, Crawford would work at the age of 154, dealing with adolescent sharks such as Bakhram Murtazaliev and Vergil Ortiz Jr.