Canelo Alvarez vs. Jaime Munguia will lighten your wallet for fans interested in watching their fight on May 4th on Amazon Prime Video and DAZN PPV. The price is out of this world high for a fight that no one has been asking for. Fans might need to sell plasma at a donation center to come up with the dough to watch this mismatch.
Munguia is a good basic fighter, but he hasn’t done enough to get fans excited about paying to watch him against Canelo. That’s the whole problem with this event. Munguia is unproven, and there’s the belief that he’s been matched carefully to get him to this point for a Canelo fight.
Fans are already complaining about the cost, saying they won’t watch, which isn’t good for the fighters, promoters, and network broadcasters. The problem is there have been too many PPV events in consecutive months, and fans are starting to notice.
It can’t be good for fighters like Canelo in terms of creating new fans because all of his fights are now behind a PPV paywall, creating an obstacle to building his fan base.
Unless you’ve seen Canelo before, you won’t want to shell out money to order his fights. It would have been a good move for Canelo to make the Munguia fight for free to show that he’s thinking about the fans and then focus his future PPV fights on A-level talent.
It’s too expensive to attract casuals, who are only mildly interested in Canelo and are not fans of Munguia (43-0, 34 KOs).
The problem with Munguia is he’s never fought anyone good during his 11-year professional career, and his resume is 100% inflated with scrubs. It’s a crime how Munguia has never fought one good opponent, and he’s getting blessed by Canelo with life-changing loot.
Munguia’s past opponents.
– John Ryder: 35
– Sergiy Derevyanchenko: 38
– Gabriel Rosado: 38
– Tureano Johnson: 40
– Gary O’Sullivan: 39
– Dennis Hogan: 39
– Liam Smith: 35
Fans would be willing to pay that much money if undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo were fighting David Benavidez because that’s a match that people have been asking for, but not Munguia.