Wade REACTS to the BREAKING Canelo Alvarez Vs Terence Crawford fight news which finally reveals it's streaming partner Netflix and promoters in Turki Al-Sheikh & Dana White...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we have some breaking news in the boxing realm.
We had heard rumors about it, we'd even heard, you
know what, somewhat unofficial announcements about it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But Canelo Versus Crawford is.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now official, Ladies and gentlemen, It's officially happening on September thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Live on Netflicks. This one is a banger.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
They are calling it the fight of the century. It's
definitely the biggest fight in boxing right now, and I
am so pumped for this thing. Now we're gonna get
into the minutia of it and all the stuff that's
gonna be happening, and all the press conferences and everything
else that's planned around it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But before we do, let's go to h E himself.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The Big Achi had a message about this fight, and
we're gonna take a look and see what Turkey Alishka
is saying with this official announcement.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Kennella Crawford, thirteen of September and Las Vegas, thank you
for everyone. Thank you Canelo, thank you Crawford, thank you Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Thank you Wade. Maybe I don't know, maybe thanks thanks
to Wade. I don't know, I was here, I.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Didn't get it. Thank you Come on HG. You're right.
I didn't have anything to do with this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We continue Villa, Thank you, Villa, thank you or your
team and Netflix, thank you, Ni Khan, t KO, thank you, Dana,
my brother who he will promote this fight with me,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Fuck.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, before we I love Turkey man. Look at this pose.
It's amazing. So before we go on. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
A lot of people had had some thoughts about potentially
Dana White and Turkey not promoting this together because Dana
White's name was not on one of the recent press releases,
but I didn't think that he was. I didn't have
any insight sources, but I didn't think that that was
the case. I figured if Dana had signed his name
onto something and that Riot Season is going to be
doing this deal with TKO to make you know, they
(02:00):
haven't really named it yet, but TKO Boxing, whatever that's
gonna be, that they were going to follow through with it.
It is interesting, though, because a Anda White will have
a hand in promoting two major combat sports events on
the same day, and I don't think that they cancel
out business the way that everybody else thinks that they
potentially will. I think people put too much stock into
(02:21):
people picking and choosing that this may happen. But with
Netflix being involved, and because boxing audiences are far different
from MMA audiences. You can look at my channel and
see that like it's not they're not the same audience.
Most people that enjoy MMA watch MMA. Most people that
enjoy boxing watch boxing, and the crossover between the two
is very minimal. Honestly, the crossover between the two might
(02:44):
be the Jake Paul fights, you know, the crossover boxing fights,
but this one will have.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Mainstream of people.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I do think that it being on Netflix is gonna help,
which is why I think Dana was more on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Board to do it. Because two pay per view events
running against each other.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It doesn't hurt his pockets, but it may potentially getting
the way of business for somebody. This one and UFC
three seventeen, I don't think are gonna really They may
overlap time wise, but they're not going to really do
much as far as running into each other.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Thank you for everyone, Thank you Canelo, Thank you in
your city, Thank you Netflix.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, Canello Crawford will be free because yes, you'll need
Netflix to watch. But this is the same playbook that
Jake and Mike Tyson used on Netflix. I think it's
a good idea. There's gonna be a ton of eyes
on it. That's why I said it's the biggest boxing
event of the year. American audience I think desperately need
because right now, American boxing, especially with having with Keshawn
Davis last weekend, we have you know, younger guys like
(03:39):
Abdula Mason, we have uh Emiliano Vargas, we have those
guys Richard Torres. But American fandom in boxing right now
needs to grow and this could be a way to
potentially do that. The buffering issue, we'll see. I think
that that was a first event thing, but then again,
I think the NFL might have had some issues with
it as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But I think the Netflix.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Platform is such a good one for people that are
on the fence about buying a boxing pay per view.
And let's be honest, for years, boxing cards have been
astronomically priced for pay per view. The UFC does it
too now, but there are some of those fights that
just aren't worth pay per view, Like they're not worth
the amount of money charged. And I'm not singling out
any fight or fight promoter, but it's just in general,
(04:22):
sometimes they are way too overpriced here and in other countries
it's a lot cheaper. So for this this is a
big deal for American audiences who are used to paying
fifty sixty seventy dollars to watch a fight, and I'll
get that fight.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
For you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It is your Netflix subscription ten dollars fifteen dollars a month, but.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You're not paying anything on top of that. Essentially after
that it's free. This is a massive deal there, magazine.
Thank you, Wade, Thank you for everyone.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
This is the biggest fight in boxing and in the
history in the last ten years, and maybe more. Thank
you Shefferd from the team of Canelo. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Is this the biggest boxing fight in the last ten years?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean again, if you take away Jake and Mike Tyson,
which numbers wise, is not going to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Be beat probably.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean, the numbers they're gonna get on Netflix are
gonna be huge. If they surpassed Jake and Mike, that
would be insane. I don't know though, I don't know
that they're they're gonna get there, But what they can
do is surpass pretty much every other number.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They're going to.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Surpass Hubank Ben, They're going to surpass any of that.
Maybe not when was Connor and Floyd. We're coming up
right at the end of that Connor Floyd thing. Floyd
and Manny was before that, But of the last decade,
this will probably be the biggest one. And the reason
that you put Manny and Floyd and Connor and Floyd
in there is because their numbers were behind the pay
per view wall, right, Like, you can't really compare numbers
(05:43):
on Netflix to the amount of numbers they drew on
pay per view.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That was crazy. But they certainly will do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I mean, I don't want to put a number out
there and be wrong, but I'd be surprised if they
didn't do at least like ten, twenty, maybe thirty million, right,
I think you could. I think you could definitely get
twenty to thirty million people to watch this.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this is very good opportunity for the talent in boxing.
We will make the undercart all the undercart about talent
because we have the biggest fight. We don't need big
fight in the undercart for that. We will give the
chance for the talent. If you think you are ready
(06:22):
to be in the undercart of Canelo Crawford, come talk
with us.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's it me and Aaron the Plumber underguard.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, so realistically this is an interesting like Jokes has hide,
this is an interesting take from Turkey. He's like, we
don't need to sell this fight anymore because the headliners
sell it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We just want talent. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The question I guess I would have is where does
the intersection between talent and hype differentiate for Turkey because
he has a bunch of ring ambassadors, right, he has
Moses to talent, he has Abdullah Mason, he has Keshan Davis.
He has a lot of these guys Schakor Stevenson, which
is you know, probably gonna be a little bit of
a tight window for Shakor, but you never know. There
(07:06):
has to be a way to get talented guys that
potentially can be stars on that card. I think Abdulla
Mason should be on that card. He's super talented. I'm
also a fan of Emiliano Vargas. You guys know this,
that would be great. I don't know if he has
something going on with the ring or not, but Moses
Totalma is fighting very soon, I think in the middle
of July.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Again. Bam Rodriguez, sure for I'm down with it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But I guess what he's trying to say is we
want talent, to expose the talent to new boxing fans.
But at the same time, the most talented people are
the you know, fighters on the rise. As it is,
I like, I don't mind prioritizing talent on the undercard,
because you're trying to use this card to build interest
not only in you know, the sport, but also in
(07:52):
some of these fighters that don't have the name Canelo has. Right,
you're building interest in the main event just by it
being the main event, But the fighters themselves that are
on their rise to the belts or just got a
belt or whatever, they can definitely use from this exposure.
And again the only thing we have to compare it
to is the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson car and some
of the fighters on there have massive benefits from being there,
(08:14):
like Katie Taylor, a Mani Serano already were big names
by the time they were the Comain event, but they
had fifty million people watch them, sixty million whatever it
was in that Comain. Mario Barrios, even though he didn't
have a great performance on that card, he's getting many
pakia in his next fight, right, he still he's the champ.
I think it was a draw that he had on
that card, But get a many Packiao fight after being
on that you know, name value talent.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
There has to be somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But again it's just mostly because the talented guys are
the ones rising in the sport and creating a name
from themselves as it. I think what Turkey is saying
is like, we don't need Anthony Joshua on the card, right,
we don't need Tyson Fury on the car.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We don't need like some of.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
These higher level to the casual audience big names on
this card.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We want the younger talent to come through.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Thank you and see you in Vegas. The thirteenth of
September is shata.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There we go September thirteenth. You will see big h.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
E Dana White and of course that absolutely stacked main events.
Speaking of Dana White, here's what he had to say
on the announcement. Quote, Turkey Yellashik wants to make the
biggest fights that fans want to see in boxing, and
this is right up my alley. Are you kidding me
that the first boxing fight I'm going to promote is
(09:28):
Canelo versus Crawford. It's literally a once in a lifetime
fight live on Saturday, September thirteenth, streaming globally on Netflix.
Two of the greatest boxers in the sport will meet
in an historic fight from Las Vegas. Now, this was
originally supposed to be a Friday fight, and Netflix does
do a lot of Friday events. I think it's probably
(09:48):
because they have, you know, American sports that they run
up against on Saturdays, but this one is different. They're
going to do it on a Saturday, and I have
a feeling that's because of a couple of different factors.
Number one being, Canelo is a Saturday fighter. He wants
his fans to be able to see him, and he
is the big draw of this card. Let's be honest,
he is the biggest, the biggest draw probably outside of
you know, Anthony Joshua in the UK or Anthony Joshua
(10:11):
Tysperia in the UK.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He's probably the biggest draw in box.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He's gonna have some say, and I think that probably
he was like, I'm not doing this Friday thing where
my fans can't come out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We're doing it on Saturday. So that's DANEA White's thoughts
on it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I am super interested to see Dana in boxing and
how that whole thing is gonna go. Another big update
that we got today as well from The Ring magazine
is that this will be a three press conference tour
right at the end of June. Here, essentially all in
the span of one week, from Friday to Friday, we
(10:41):
have three press conferences for Canelo and Terrence Crawford, three
different cities. One will be in RIOD, one will be
in New York, and one will be in Las Vegas
and the T Mobile Arena. Now, oh, this is at
Fanatics Fest too. Ooh, okay, I like this. I like
this Fanatics Fest in New York. This is where again
(11:03):
Dack and Mike Tyson did their press conference and it
was rowdy up in there. Right, New York's always got
some rowdy fans. I hope that all of these. I
don't know how the ri ODD one's gonna go, but
I hope that most of these at least are in
front of fan Not that these guys have like generational
beef and that they're you know, either of them are
massive talkers. But you want some juice, you want some
(11:24):
energy for this, right, I think you want a little energy,
so putting it in front of fans at Fanatics Fest
that's good. And the T Mobile that's more location than
anything else. So that's more information. But we actually have
the official article, the official news bulletin drops was dropped
three hours ago. Canela Alvres versus Terrence Crawford lands on Netflix,
Vegas to host a super fight. Now something I'm not
seeing so far as a venue. Right, we know the date,
(11:47):
we know the city, but we don't have the venue yet.
And I think speculating because I don't have the answer.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But I think it's because they're trying to negotiate or
trying to find a way to get a lead stadium.
I have to think that although I don't know what,
if anything's going on in T Mobile Arena on that day,
but they try to get this fear.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean sure that too.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Part of me, though, wants to have it in a
in a in a traditional boxing setting, you know, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Part of me just wants it to be in T Mobile.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Terrence Crawford, the Canel alvers Terrence Crawford super fight for
the ring and undisputed super Middleweight Championship will take place
September thirteenth in Las Vegas, be streaming globally on Netflix
at no additional cost to the three hundred million plus subscribers. Yeah,
if they hit thirty million to sixty million people watching this,
that would be a massive number. Calvarest is boxing's top star,
(12:37):
will defend his one hundred and sixty eight pound crown
against Crawford, a fellow future Hall of Famer. We'll climb
two weight classes for the biggest challenge of his career. Again,
I've talked about this, I don't think that the weight
is gonna be that big a difference. Maybe Terrence fighting
at that weight will make a difference to him personally, right,
Like it's just not gonna feel the same, or it's
gonna be a little bit to maneuver, But Canelo is not.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Canello's size does not scare me if I'm a Terrence
Crawford fan, because I've seen both of them during fight
weeks and out of fight weeks, and there isn't much
of a size difference there. Terrence looks maybe even like
bigger frame one. Alvarez is the ring's number eight pound
for pound boxer, and owns the Ring Magazine Championship one
hundred and sixty eight pounds. This will be the Mexican
Icon's tenth defense of his Ring Magazine Super Middleweight championship.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Quote. I'm super happy.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
To be making history again, in this time on a
riad season card that will be broadcast on Netflix, said Alvarez,
thirty four, Jesus Canelo is only two years older than me.
I have done nothing in life, my goodness. On September thirteenth,
I am ready to show once again that I am
the best pound for pound fighter in the world. And
then we had a quote it looks like from Terrence Crawford.
(13:47):
He says, my perfect record speaks for itself. I'm the
best fighter in the world, and no matter the opponent
or weight class, I always come out on top. Rawford
said on September thirteenth, my hand will be raised once
again as the world watches greatness. Okay, so yeah again,
we just we don't have the one thing, which is
the place right the actual location of the bout. That's
(14:10):
the only thing really missing at the moment. But other
than that, I listen, I love this fight, obviously. David
Benavidez right now is the fight. I think in a
lot of people would you know, in a pie in
the sky scenario, want to see.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I love this fight.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm not going to complain about it because it is
two of the best in the world going at it.
And yes, weight class is a little bit different for
Terrence Crawford, but he's not fighting what I would consider
to be a normal one hundred and sixty eight pound fighter.
Canelo is not that, right. Canelo has moved up multiple
weight classes to get to one sixty eight, So they're
really I mean when you again you look at them
standing toe to toe here, you don't see a massive
(14:46):
size difference for Canelo. In fact, you kind of see
the opposite. Wait, how do you see the fight playing
out right now? I'm leaning Terrence Crawford. I'm leaning Terrence
Crawford right now, not just based on Canelo's last performance,
but based on Canelo over the last few years. I
I haven't seen the Canelo of the entry into one
sixty that was able to be defensive while being in
(15:08):
front of you, that was able to not just throw
power punches, but his jab was there. He was able
to set things up. And again he's done that. But
it's just the punchline, no pun intended hasn't been there
for Canelo. Sure, he dropped Berlanga, but he wasn't able
to stop him, dropped Mungia, wasn't able to stop him.
And maybe those are in retrospect good wins, but I
(15:29):
don't know. I think he's gonna need a little more
than just the power punching to beat Terrence Crawford
Today we have some breaking news in the boxing realm.
We had heard rumors about it, we'd even heard, you
know what, somewhat unofficial announcements about it.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
But Canelo Versus Crawford is.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Now official, Ladies and gentlemen, It's officially happening on September thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Live on Netflicks. This one is a banger.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
They are calling it the fight of the century. It's
definitely the biggest fight in boxing right now, and I
am so pumped for this thing. Now we're gonna get
into the minutia of it and all the stuff that's
gonna be happening, and all the press conferences and everything
else that's planned around it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But before we do, let's go to h E himself.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The Big Achi had a message about this fight, and
we're gonna take a look and see what Turkey Alishka
is saying with this official announcement.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Kennella Crawford, thirteen of September and Las Vegas, thank you
for everyone. Thank you Canelo, thank you Crawford, thank you Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Thank you Wade. Maybe I don't know, maybe thanks thanks
to Wade. I don't know, I was here, I.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Didn't get it. Thank you Come on HG. You're right.
I didn't have anything to do with this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
We continue Villa, Thank you, Villa, thank you or your
team and Netflix, thank you, Ni Khan, t KO, thank you, Dana,
my brother who he will promote this fight with me,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Fuck.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Okay, before we I love Turkey man. Look at this pose.
It's amazing. So before we go on. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
A lot of people had had some thoughts about potentially
Dana White and Turkey not promoting this together because Dana
White's name was not on one of the recent press releases,
but I didn't think that he was. I didn't have
any insight sources, but I didn't think that that was
the case. I figured if Dana had signed his name
onto something and that Riot Season is going to be
doing this deal with TKO to make you know, they
(02:00):
haven't really named it yet, but TKO Boxing, whatever that's
gonna be, that they were going to follow through with it.
It is interesting, though, because a Anda White will have
a hand in promoting two major combat sports events on
the same day, and I don't think that they cancel
out business the way that everybody else thinks that they
potentially will. I think people put too much stock into
(02:21):
people picking and choosing that this may happen. But with
Netflix being involved, and because boxing audiences are far different
from MMA audiences. You can look at my channel and
see that like it's not they're not the same audience.
Most people that enjoy MMA watch MMA. Most people that
enjoy boxing watch boxing, and the crossover between the two
is very minimal. Honestly, the crossover between the two might
(02:44):
be the Jake Paul fights, you know, the crossover boxing fights,
but this one will have.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Mainstream of people.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I do think that it being on Netflix is gonna help,
which is why I think Dana was more on.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Board to do it. Because two pay per view events
running against each other.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It doesn't hurt his pockets, but it may potentially getting
the way of business for somebody. This one and UFC
three seventeen, I don't think are gonna really They may
overlap time wise, but they're not going to really do
much as far as running into each other.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Thank you for everyone, Thank you Canelo, Thank you in
your city, Thank you Netflix.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, Canello Crawford will be free because yes, you'll need
Netflix to watch. But this is the same playbook that
Jake and Mike Tyson used on Netflix. I think it's
a good idea. There's gonna be a ton of eyes
on it. That's why I said it's the biggest boxing
event of the year. American audience I think desperately need
because right now, American boxing, especially with having with Keshawn
Davis last weekend, we have you know, younger guys like
(03:39):
Abdula Mason, we have uh Emiliano Vargas, we have those
guys Richard Torres. But American fandom in boxing right now
needs to grow and this could be a way to
potentially do that. The buffering issue, we'll see. I think
that that was a first event thing, but then again,
I think the NFL might have had some issues with
it as well.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But I think the Netflix.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Platform is such a good one for people that are
on the fence about buying a boxing pay per view.
And let's be honest, for years, boxing cards have been
astronomically priced for pay per view. The UFC does it
too now, but there are some of those fights that
just aren't worth pay per view, Like they're not worth
the amount of money charged. And I'm not singling out
any fight or fight promoter, but it's just in general,
(04:22):
sometimes they are way too overpriced here and in other countries
it's a lot cheaper. So for this this is a
big deal for American audiences who are used to paying
fifty sixty seventy dollars to watch a fight, and I'll
get that fight.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
For you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It is your Netflix subscription ten dollars fifteen dollars a month, but.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You're not paying anything on top of that. Essentially after
that it's free. This is a massive deal there, magazine.
Thank you, Wade, Thank you for everyone.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
This is the biggest fight in boxing and in the
history in the last ten years, and maybe more. Thank
you Shefferd from the team of Canelo. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Is this the biggest boxing fight in the last ten years?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean again, if you take away Jake and Mike Tyson,
which numbers wise, is not going to.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Be beat probably.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I mean, the numbers they're gonna get on Netflix are
gonna be huge. If they surpassed Jake and Mike, that
would be insane. I don't know though, I don't know
that they're they're gonna get there, But what they can
do is surpass pretty much every other number.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They're going to.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Surpass Hubank Ben, They're going to surpass any of that.
Maybe not when was Connor and Floyd. We're coming up
right at the end of that Connor Floyd thing. Floyd
and Manny was before that, But of the last decade,
this will probably be the biggest one. And the reason
that you put Manny and Floyd and Connor and Floyd
in there is because their numbers were behind the pay
per view wall, right, Like, you can't really compare numbers
(05:43):
on Netflix to the amount of numbers they drew on
pay per view.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That was crazy. But they certainly will do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I mean, I don't want to put a number out
there and be wrong, but I'd be surprised if they
didn't do at least like ten, twenty, maybe thirty million, right,
I think you could. I think you could definitely get
twenty to thirty million people to watch this.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this is very good opportunity for the talent in boxing.
We will make the undercart all the undercart about talent
because we have the biggest fight. We don't need big
fight in the undercart for that. We will give the
chance for the talent. If you think you are ready
(06:22):
to be in the undercart of Canelo Crawford, come talk
with us.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That's it me and Aaron the Plumber underguard.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, so realistically this is an interesting like Jokes has hide,
this is an interesting take from Turkey. He's like, we
don't need to sell this fight anymore because the headliners
sell it.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We just want talent. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The question I guess I would have is where does
the intersection between talent and hype differentiate for Turkey because
he has a bunch of ring ambassadors, right, he has
Moses to talent, he has Abdullah Mason, he has Keshan Davis.
He has a lot of these guys Schakor Stevenson, which
is you know, probably gonna be a little bit of
a tight window for Shakor, but you never know. There
(07:06):
has to be a way to get talented guys that
potentially can be stars on that card. I think Abdulla
Mason should be on that card. He's super talented. I'm
also a fan of Emiliano Vargas. You guys know this,
that would be great. I don't know if he has
something going on with the ring or not, but Moses
Totalma is fighting very soon, I think in the middle
of July.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Again. Bam Rodriguez, sure for I'm down with it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But I guess what he's trying to say is we
want talent, to expose the talent to new boxing fans.
But at the same time, the most talented people are
the you know, fighters on the rise. As it is,
I like, I don't mind prioritizing talent on the undercard,
because you're trying to use this card to build interest
not only in you know, the sport, but also in
(07:52):
some of these fighters that don't have the name Canelo has. Right,
you're building interest in the main event just by it
being the main event, But the fighters themselves that are
on their rise to the belts or just got a
belt or whatever, they can definitely use from this exposure.
And again the only thing we have to compare it
to is the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson car and some
of the fighters on there have massive benefits from being there,
(08:14):
like Katie Taylor, a Mani Serano already were big names
by the time they were the Comain event, but they
had fifty million people watch them, sixty million whatever it
was in that Comain. Mario Barrios, even though he didn't
have a great performance on that card, he's getting many
pakia in his next fight, right, he still he's the champ.
I think it was a draw that he had on
that card, But get a many Packiao fight after being
on that you know, name value talent.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
There has to be somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But again it's just mostly because the talented guys are
the ones rising in the sport and creating a name
from themselves as it. I think what Turkey is saying
is like, we don't need Anthony Joshua on the card, right,
we don't need Tyson Fury on the car.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We don't need like some of.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
These higher level to the casual audience big names on
this card.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
We want the younger talent to come through.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Thank you and see you in Vegas. The thirteenth of
September is shata.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There we go September thirteenth. You will see big h.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
E Dana White and of course that absolutely stacked main events.
Speaking of Dana White, here's what he had to say
on the announcement. Quote, Turkey Yellashik wants to make the
biggest fights that fans want to see in boxing, and
this is right up my alley. Are you kidding me
that the first boxing fight I'm going to promote is
(09:28):
Canelo versus Crawford. It's literally a once in a lifetime
fight live on Saturday, September thirteenth, streaming globally on Netflix.
Two of the greatest boxers in the sport will meet
in an historic fight from Las Vegas. Now, this was
originally supposed to be a Friday fight, and Netflix does
do a lot of Friday events. I think it's probably
(09:48):
because they have, you know, American sports that they run
up against on Saturdays, but this one is different. They're
going to do it on a Saturday, and I have
a feeling that's because of a couple of different factors.
Number one being, Canelo is a Saturday fighter. He wants
his fans to be able to see him, and he
is the big draw of this card. Let's be honest,
he is the biggest, the biggest draw probably outside of
you know, Anthony Joshua in the UK or Anthony Joshua
(10:11):
Tysperia in the UK.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He's probably the biggest draw in box.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He's gonna have some say, and I think that probably
he was like, I'm not doing this Friday thing where
my fans can't come out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We're doing it on Saturday. So that's DANEA White's thoughts
on it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I am super interested to see Dana in boxing and
how that whole thing is gonna go. Another big update
that we got today as well from The Ring magazine
is that this will be a three press conference tour
right at the end of June. Here, essentially all in
the span of one week, from Friday to Friday, we
(10:41):
have three press conferences for Canelo and Terrence Crawford, three
different cities. One will be in RIOD, one will be
in New York, and one will be in Las Vegas
and the T Mobile Arena. Now, oh, this is at
Fanatics Fest too. Ooh, okay, I like this. I like
this Fanatics Fest in New York. This is where again
(11:03):
Dack and Mike Tyson did their press conference and it
was rowdy up in there. Right, New York's always got
some rowdy fans. I hope that all of these. I
don't know how the ri ODD one's gonna go, but
I hope that most of these at least are in
front of fan Not that these guys have like generational
beef and that they're you know, either of them are
massive talkers. But you want some juice, you want some
(11:24):
energy for this, right, I think you want a little energy,
so putting it in front of fans at Fanatics Fest
that's good. And the T Mobile that's more location than
anything else. So that's more information. But we actually have
the official article, the official news bulletin drops was dropped
three hours ago. Canela Alvres versus Terrence Crawford lands on Netflix,
Vegas to host a super fight. Now something I'm not
seeing so far as a venue. Right, we know the date,
(11:47):
we know the city, but we don't have the venue yet.
And I think speculating because I don't have the answer.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I guess we'll find out.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But I think it's because they're trying to negotiate or
trying to find a way to get a lead stadium.
I have to think that although I don't know what,
if anything's going on in T Mobile Arena on that day,
but they try to get this fear.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean sure that too.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Part of me, though, wants to have it in a
in a in a traditional boxing setting, you know, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Part of me just wants it to be in T Mobile.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Terrence Crawford, the Canel alvers Terrence Crawford super fight for
the ring and undisputed super Middleweight Championship will take place
September thirteenth in Las Vegas, be streaming globally on Netflix
at no additional cost to the three hundred million plus subscribers. Yeah,
if they hit thirty million to sixty million people watching this,
that would be a massive number. Calvarest is boxing's top star,
(12:37):
will defend his one hundred and sixty eight pound crown
against Crawford, a fellow future Hall of Famer. We'll climb
two weight classes for the biggest challenge of his career. Again,
I've talked about this, I don't think that the weight
is gonna be that big a difference. Maybe Terrence fighting
at that weight will make a difference to him personally, right,
Like it's just not gonna feel the same, or it's
gonna be a little bit to maneuver, But Canelo is not.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Canello's size does not scare me if I'm a Terrence
Crawford fan, because I've seen both of them during fight
weeks and out of fight weeks, and there isn't much
of a size difference there. Terrence looks maybe even like
bigger frame one. Alvarez is the ring's number eight pound
for pound boxer, and owns the Ring Magazine Championship one
hundred and sixty eight pounds. This will be the Mexican
Icon's tenth defense of his Ring Magazine Super Middleweight championship.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Quote. I'm super happy.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
To be making history again, in this time on a
riad season card that will be broadcast on Netflix, said Alvarez,
thirty four, Jesus Canelo is only two years older than me.
I have done nothing in life, my goodness. On September thirteenth,
I am ready to show once again that I am
the best pound for pound fighter in the world. And
then we had a quote it looks like from Terrence Crawford.
(13:47):
He says, my perfect record speaks for itself. I'm the
best fighter in the world, and no matter the opponent
or weight class, I always come out on top. Rawford
said on September thirteenth, my hand will be raised once
again as the world watches greatness. Okay, so yeah again,
we just we don't have the one thing, which is
the place right the actual location of the bout. That's
(14:10):
the only thing really missing at the moment. But other
than that, I listen, I love this fight, obviously. David
Benavidez right now is the fight. I think in a
lot of people would you know, in a pie in
the sky scenario, want to see.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I love this fight.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm not going to complain about it because it is
two of the best in the world going at it.
And yes, weight class is a little bit different for
Terrence Crawford, but he's not fighting what I would consider
to be a normal one hundred and sixty eight pound fighter.
Canelo is not that, right. Canelo has moved up multiple
weight classes to get to one sixty eight, So they're
really I mean when you again you look at them
standing toe to toe here, you don't see a massive
(14:46):
size difference for Canelo. In fact, you kind of see
the opposite. Wait, how do you see the fight playing
out right now? I'm leaning Terrence Crawford. I'm leaning Terrence
Crawford right now, not just based on Canelo's last performance,
but based on Canelo over the last few years. I
I haven't seen the Canelo of the entry into one
sixty that was able to be defensive while being in
(15:08):
front of you, that was able to not just throw
power punches, but his jab was there. He was able
to set things up. And again he's done that. But
it's just the punchline, no pun intended hasn't been there
for Canelo. Sure, he dropped Berlanga, but he wasn't able
to stop him, dropped Mungia, wasn't able to stop him.
And maybe those are in retrospect good wins, but I
(15:29):
don't know. I think he's gonna need a little more
than just the power punching to beat Terrence Crawford
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