Ade Oladipo benefits Canelo Alvarez against William Scull next May 3 to give fans something to look forward to by going to Terence Crawford in September. This is a way to make the Canelo Crawford look artificial. The struggle to ensure that everything that comes for Canelo is great, even if it really is not.
Artificial height
If Canelo were to fight against Jake Paul on May 3 and be seen by 50 million viewers, it would be a big decline for the Mexican star to face Crawford in September. Many fewer fans would see the fight, and the hype generated would be minimal because Crawford is weak to promote his events.
Canelo would have been better to permanently forget about Scull and focus on the Jake Paul battle in May, so many more fans would see it. If Crawford looks small afterwards, that’s what happens when you fight against guys who are not popular. This would happen if Canelo fights with any other unpopular fighter. You can’t try to make the fight look bigger than fighting someone even less.
The real problem is that Canelo against Crawford is not ‘the big fight’ that Turki al-Sheikh thinks it is not. Although he is a fan of Crawford, Casuals Worldwide does not look at him to fight because he has been a pure boxer and not an exciting Slugger. The one fight where Crawford looked like a Slugger was against Errol Spence, which in that competition looked like a zombie after a long discharge and great weight loss.
Packing Crawford
“I think it makes it bigger in terms of Canelo. If you fight against Jake Paul, the Crawford battle is smaller in terms of eyeballs, ”said Ade Oladipo Ariel x ade On Dazn Boxing YouTube channel, talk about whether Canelo Alvarez fought against Jake Paul on May 3, it would have been bigger on September 13 than the Terence Crawford match.
“I like the idea of building up (rather than building) to Crawford. If you fight against Scull, it’s smaller. You have beaten Scull, became undisputed, and now there is the chance that the history of Crawford is made to be the first three-weight undisputed champion.
“I don’t care about the undisputed battle (Canelo against Scull), and then you go to Crawford. Then Crawford has the chance to become undeniable. I like that story as opposed to Jake Paul. Yes, I have more eyeballs than Jake Paul and Crawford. I almost feel that Jake Paul Crawford overshadows a little, and that’s what I don’t like. ‘
It sounds like a wrong view to have, and trying to make the Canelo-Crawford battle look bigger by taking the no-names IBF paper champion William Scull, rather than the much bigger fight against Jake Paul at 3 May.
If Crawford is not a big enough battle on its own because of the lack of popularity of the Nebraska native with casual box fans, you cannot submit it by taking a terrible fight against Scull. It would have been better for Canelo to take the fight with Jake, by 50 million fans on Netflix and 20+ on Paul’s Instagram followers and YouTube subscribers.
If Crawford does not have the popularity to look after, this is his problem, but it is stupid to take the Albatross to fight against Scull just to make the circus match against Terence look big in comparison.
The illusion of question
“With William Scull we all wait for it to be Crawford,” Ade said. “The issue is that Jake Paul will go then,” My struggle is bigger. ‘We build it as boxing fans that Canelo-Crawford is the biggest thing of 2025. Jake Paul will say, ‘You beat me, but we had the biggest battle of 2025. You against Crawford, Canelo, are the third largest or the second largest. I had the biggest fight. ‘
“I think boxing fans don’t want it. We want to say Canelo-Crawford is the biggest thing. Suddenly it would be that Jake Paul is the biggest thing against Canelo. He (Jake) will troll for centuries. “
Boxing fans want to see the most entertaining battles, and Canelo against Scull is not. This is a poor struggle. If you saw Scull’s last fight against Vladimir Shishikin, you will know that this man does not judge that he is on PPV. He is a big step of Canelo’s last two poor opponents, Edgar Berlanga and Jaime Munguia.
Last updated on 02/11/2025
