Terrence Crawford beat Canelo Alvarez in a video game before defeating him in the ring. Terrence Crawford moved up two weight classes to take on undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez this past month.
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford has been produced as a documentary-style, two-part series to promote the fight showed Crawford training to beat Canelo — virtually. In part of that documentary, Crawford is shown playing the video game Undisputed.
In the game, Crawford unleashes a relentless assault. He splits Canelo’s guard with a couple of upper cuts and hooks before landing a series of devastating body shots that crumple Alvarez’s character with just 54 seconds remaining in the first round. (The sequence occurs around the 30-minute mark of the second episode.)
It’s a super middleweight boxing match, though in the video game version of the fight, Canelo’s character is much bigger than Crawford. However, in the actual fight week, the two have appeared closer in size.
Gamblers note, a first-round knockout is not going to happen in the real fight in the real world.
Crawford may have overdone it a bit as well. His video character stands over Mr. Alvarez for a few seconds, punching at the air while Canelo struggles to rise to his feet.
Hopefully, he hasn’t overdone it in bulking up for this fight, but that’s another story.
The episodes are free to air on Netflix. The fight itself is also free to air for Netflix’s 301.6 million. There is a potentially massive audience as well for this fight and hopefully it lasts longer than one round.
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul was the Streamed Sporting Event in History. Over 108 million viewers watched the fight around the globe. In the United States, more people watched the fight overall than any boxing event since Muhammad Ali’s rematch against Leon Spinks in 1978. In that fight, Muhammad Ali won the undisputed title.
The viewership wasn’t that big this time around, but the attracted millions of casual fans and re-wrote chapters of boxing fans with Terrance Crawford winning a big upset.
