As we have mentioned, boxing is at the precipice soon of true greatness as a sport in terms of professional boxing’s return to the big time in all worldwide sport.
Professional boxing is set for a very unique and great time soon that will see across all platforms and countries, in the East and West, when the likes of new BBC, Paramount, DAZN acquisition and more company and government onboarding occurs in the sport, more professional boxing and world championship boxing shown across more mediums and platforms then in some time.
When you add up all the countries around the world and all the companies that will be showing boxing, it is going to be truly out of this world.
So much so, when you add up all the audience between all the countries, account for piracy even which is always a problem for all professional sport streaming and viewing, even with all that, boxing will overall be shown to the masses again on Earth like it was back in the 1980s and before that.
Just in a new way though in a more technologically advanced time of streaming and online media for the sport compared to the old days of TV, radio and newspapers which are more less dead and gone now, basically, even old people use the internet and smart phones now.
Even the poorest countries in the world in Africa have the internet and smart phones now.
The era boxing is in at the moment has seen Mr. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez for too long basically carry the sport as the number one pay per view star in the entire sport worldwide since Floyd Mayweather retired.
But the pay per view era is not what it was anymore, streaming is the thing now, we won’t see pay per view is totally gone but times are changing for pay per view, certainly.
Boxing has thrived recently due to the matchmaking across all weights of the best fighting the best but star power is still important in boxing and the new stars of Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, Shakur Stevenson and others’ time is now.
Boxing must look to find more of the next mega stars like Canelo and Floyd Mayweather, as it has always done, and bring them through quickly with their compelling fight abilities and stories.
That remit remains unchanged in professional boxing as it does in all professional sport.
Canelo Alvarez is not going anywhere for now of course, he will be fighting on for some time as part of a big deal in the sport, but when he goes, Mexicans and boxing won’t just miss him, the East and West will also.
What he has done for boxing since Floyd Mayweather was here cannot be denied, he came up short against Terence Crawford last September on points but there is no harm in that, he was stepping in there with one of the best fighters that ever lived at the end of the day.
Why Mexico And Boxing Will Miss Saul Canelo Alvarez When He Is Gone
Alvarez must know this.
We were watching that fight back again earlier and at one point Terence Crawford did something that even the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, Joe Calzaghe and other boxing genius’ seldom did in their careers.
Alvarez was launching a powerful well set up attack to which Crawford blocked the initial punch, then parried another one away all the while at the same time essentially landing a body shot and head shot combination while spinning off moving to the right away from the front foot of Alvarez, turning Alvarez around and leaving him unable to connect, while stepping off and to the right again, basically all within the space of maybe under 1.5 seconds.
It was that quickly.
Up at super-middleweight as well.
That level of genius is very hard to even put into words, in truth.
Alvarez is without doubt an all time boxing great and beyond, he fought everyone and in many weights and fought and beat the best mostly.
He did so fearlessly while staying true to himself and his country of Mexico. Unlike that terrible woman President in Mexico who would sell out all Mexicans and all of Mexico at the drop of a hat, say, if some tyrant world leader/final anti-Christ came along. Not Mr. Canelo Alvarez — like others — he’ll be there for Mexicans and Mexico until the end.
Away from boxing he is an even better human being, than he is a fighter, but is a private person with much of that, we won’t get into that stuff.
Mexicans and boxing will miss him when he’s gone but we know he’ll be on a fairway in a golf course somewhere in America or the home of Mexican steaks, Monterrey (some good golf courses there too) somewhere soon anyway, no fear of him.
Plenty of fighting to be done on the current deal he’s on in the Middle East and internationally first however.
Roll on.
Here’s where Alvarez sits currently in our top 10 pound for pound boxing rankings.
