By William Mackay: Promotional company Sauerland Events is interested in putting together a cruiserweight Super Six tournament with the similar idea as Showtime’s Super Six tournament for super middleweights. In this case, Sauerland is picking the cruiserweight division, one of the weakest in all of boxing to showcase six lucky fighters. The fighters that have been mentioned for the tournament are as follows: Danny Green, Steve Cunningham, Enzo Maccarinelli, Krsysztof Wlodarczyk, Marco Huck and Yoan Pablo Hernandez. I’m not sure this will work as well as the existing Super Six tournament because there’s only one American involved rather than two. I noticed that there are two German based fighters in Sauerland’s proposed cruiserweight tournament with Huck and Hernandez.

This will obviously help out those two fighters back at home in Germany, but I don’t this will be nearly as popular as the super middleweight version because of the missing American. Also, Hernandez, Wlodarczyk, and Maccarinelli are all flawed fighters who stand very little chance of winning the tournament. But more importantly, they’ll likely get dominated by the likes of Green, Cunningham and Huck. I can see some of those fighters, probably Maccarinelli and Hernandez, having to drop out of the tournament due to suffering consecutive knockout defeats. Losing one fighter can have a huge impact on a tournament, but losing two of them will cause the whole thing to become rather silly.

I think if they’re going to use Maccarinelli and Wlodarczyk, then they need some reliable backup fighters that can be called up in an instant to take their place in the tournament so that boxing fans don’t lose interest when they see one fighter after another having to drop out due to the suffering of bad concussions. I’d much rather see Denis Lebedev in the tournament in place of Maccarinelli, whom he already knocked out, and Steve Herelius in place of Hernandez. I’d use either Ola Afolabi or Victor Ramirez in place of Wlodarczyk. Those guys can punch and it would be more interesting with sluggers rather than boxers.