There is a chance if Canelo Alvarez, the undisputed super middleweight champion, gets past undisputed super welterweight champion Jermell Charlo when they meet on Sept. 30 in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, that he'll wind up fighting undisputed welterweight champion Terence Crawford next year.
If that occurred, it would be a massive fight, one of the few fights in the sport that would seem certain to surpass 1 million pay-per-view sales.
Boxing is in the midst of one of its greatest years in decades. There are regularly big fights and no longer does one's promoter and/or broadcast network dictate who can and cannot fight. Managers at the time took on the attitude of protecting records at all costs, and so they didn't want to have their star fight another star of similar or greater magnitude for fear of what a loss would mean.
Alvarez deserves a lot of credit for the shift in thinking. He's not the only one, but since his earliest days when he was working with Golden Boy Promotions, he's always taken the attitude that if it makes dollars, it makes sense. Don't think that other fighters didn't notice what was happening, and more significantly, why Alvarez was earning those big purses. Super lightweight contender Ryan Garcia was teammates with Alvarez before leaving trainer Eddy Reynoso, and had a chance to get an inside view of the inner workings of Team Alvarez.
There are plenty of great fights to come, and the only fight that fans are desperate to see that seems unlikely at this stage is a bout for the undisputed heavyweight title between WBC/lineal champion Tyson Fury and unified champion Oleksandr Usyk.
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