This weight class of course has the biggest upcoming event on the calendar in Canelo vs. Bud, a huge to-do that could properly mark the start of the Netflix era in boxing (since neither Paul vs. Tyson nor Taylor vs. Serrano III quite set the world ablaze). Beyond that, however? The winner of Bud vs. Canelo has precious few challengers of note. Sheeraz? Iglesias? M'Billi-Martínez winner? Jermallo? There's a handful more ranked & unbeaten guys (Simpson, Sadjo, Silyagin, Nurmaganbet, Pacheco, Plantić, Bank, Fendero...) and we still have vets like Bully Bek, Munguía, Derevyanchenko, Feigenbutz and Berlanga hanging around - but come on. None of those people would be favored over the Canelo vs. Bud winner, nor are they anywhere near that level of box office draw. Álvarez probably isn't far off retirement, so let's say he beats Crawford and makes a couple more successful defenses before calling it a day. What then? All those unified belts get fractured again, with a fairly mediocre crop divvying the vacant titles up and likely each hoarding their piece of the prize with gimme defenses instead of reunifying. The division that once gave us the Super Six is now at a point where, in a couple years' time, I can see it having not a single representative in a p4p top 40.
