{"id":459293,"date":"2026-02-07T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:36:19","slug":"super-bowl-doesnt-compare-to-big-time-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459293\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl doesn\u2019t compare to big-time boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots collide Feb. 8 for the big game at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, Southern California, but as sports events filled with high-pressure moments go, the NFL\u2019s championship match isn\u2019t as big as boxing<\/a> when its at it\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to Terence Crawford, who recently retired with a 42-0 (31 KOs) shortly after out-classing Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez in arguably the most meaningful win a boxer posted in 2025.<\/p>\n

Considering Crawford\u2019s world titles won across five weight classes, and his wins over Canelo, Errol Spence Jr., and Kell Brook, the 38-year-old is used to holding his nerve during high-stakes sporting spectacles.<\/p>\n

For many, the Super Bowl is the epitome of those moments. <\/p>\n

Crawford disagrees.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Pivot Podcast, Crawford said: \u201cBoxing is a bigger event and more pressure than the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not taking any credit away from the Super Bowl. That\u2019s the biggest event. [But] when we compare the two, man, c\u2019mon \u2026 you have two men fighting each other.\u201d <\/p>\n

Crawford then elaborated on why the stakes are so much higher in a box office bout in boxing than it is in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t call a timeout or make a substitution when you\u2019re tired. It\u2019s simple. You can\u2019t switch teams.\u201d <\/p>\n

Suepr Bowl viewing figures have more than doubled since the first event in 1967 when an average of 50 million people watched the big game from its embryonic phase in 1967 through the 1970s, exploding significantly around 2010 when it began breaking the 100 million barrier again and again. Last year, 127.7 million people watched Super Bowl LIX on Fox.<\/p>\n

When boxing is behind a paywall, it cannot compete with those numbers, attracting 4 million buys in its most-watched events from the past. However, in recent months, broadcasting mainstream-friendly fights on OTT platforms like Netflix has shown the potential boxing has when it\u2019s in front of, not behind, a paywall. Anthony Joshua\u2019s eventual knockout of Jake Paul, for example, peaked at 65 million concurrent streams worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery [person from the] sports world wants to be a boxer,\u201d Crawford said, speaking of the potential boxing always has, regardless of its blips. \u201cEven soccer moms want to train boxing. I haven\u2019t seen one sport not paying homage to boxers. You can\u2019t name it. You see every [person] wanting to be a football player?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey see us at a high level, but they don\u2019t see the work we did to get to that level. You see [football] players coming out of college at 18, 19, they might get on the right team and play in the Super Bowl, and they might not have done anything as a backup. You can\u2019t do that in boxing. You\u2019ll get hurt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots collide Feb. 8 for the big game at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-459293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}