Garcia, Haney and Inoue to fight in 72-hour feast

This weekend's boxing is a bit like when you go into a restaurant and there's a menu with too many options. You ask: "What's good here?" and the waiter tells you "Everything".

With Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia, Teofimo Lopez, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Naoya Inoue all in action in a 72-hour period, you are spoilt for choice. If you're a real boxing fan, this is the time to stay in and stay up, drink your coffee, manage your sleep and make sure you're awake for every fight.

Then you can miss work on Monday and watch them all again.

Haney and Garcia fight separately in Times Square on Friday with a view to securing their rematch later this year. The three fights on the card, including Lopez's world title defence, could headline any card anywhere in the world.

Alvarez defends his super-middleweight world titles against William Scull in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

Inoue then makes a rare appearance in the United States on Sunday defending his undisputed super-bantamweight title against Ramon Cardenas.

Weirdly, Canelo would probably be the third choice from those three cards. I don't think I'd ever say that. Saudi Arabia is uncharted territory for him.

But with a fight with Terence Crawford in the pipeline for September, you can't really begrudge Canelo for taking an easy fight.

Now more than ever the fantasy fights are becoming reality. Boxing is in such a wonderful place.

A few years ago, nobody was fighting each other - everyone was arguing. They were all on different platforms and boxers wanted more money than they were worth. But now, I can't believe where we're at.

I'd say the 1980s was the best era for boxing. The 70s and 90s were the best for heavyweight, but for boxing as a whole, it has to be the 80s. There were fewer titles and less money at the lower level, which meant you had to earn your shot and get to the top level.

Garcia is such a sensation outside the ring, as well as being brilliant in it.

He can be massively underrated because of his social media following, but he's light on his feet, has been boxing since he was a kid and has crazy power with both hands but especially that left hook.

I know he has had a problem with that drugs test. The unfortunate thing is that in this era, it does not make him unique. Canelo has also had issues with drugs tests and there are plenty of things and people at whom you can point your fingers.

Haney and Garcia have relatively difficult fights to get through against Rolly Romero and Jose Carlos Ramirez, they are no walks in the park. I don't think they will get beaten but there is risk attached.

A lot is hinging on this weekend. If Haney and Garcia both win, they will face each other in the rematch later this year, but let's not worry too much about what happens just yet!

Canelo is in a risk-averse fight. Scull is a boxer who is a classical Cuban who will look to make you miss and make you pay but that's some ask against Canelo, who is overdue a stoppage - and this might be where he gets it.

It's Canelo-Crawford everyone is looking towards and I am hearing it is more or less a done deal.

Two of the biggest names in the sport, top 10 pound-for-pound fighters and I am a fan of this fight.

Boxers will always move up weight divisions. Roberto Duran went up two weights to fight Sugar Ray Leonard. Great fighters do great things.

Canelo started off as a light-welterweight and won his first title at welterweight before moving up and dominating.

Canelo and Crawford are world-class operators.

It is always a great night watching Inoue. He's absolutely brilliant, technically superb and his power is crazy.

He has shown a little bit of vulnerability against quality opposition, but he keeps his form and shape really well.

However, the technique is flawless and the power is tremendous – that's a really hard recipe to beat. You've got a guy who always keeps his shape, is focused, patient, commits to his attack and has crazy one-touch power.

His opponent Cardenas is a good fighter, who has a whipping left hook which could be a problem if Inoue is not on form. However, he is also a little bit brave at times and can make mistakes and if you do that against Inoue, you get knocked out.

That's what I think will happen and it could be early or in the middle rounds. Inoue carries that power throughout.

So where does Inoue go next? Wherever he wants to.

There is Bam Rodriguez at his weight, a Japanese showdown with world champion Junto Nakatani, who is the weight below and is also a big puncher with perfect technique. Or there is a move up to featherweight against Liverpool's Nick Ball.