"AIBA Pro Boxing" plans to be the only organization to crown undisputed pro champs...

If one groupm could come in and monopolise things, it might be good for the sport.

Does the AIBA have the financial clout to come in and do it, is the issue.

 

If they are coming into boxing with $1 Billion ready to use immediately they will have enough clout to balance what exists now...Anything less than 1 Billion, means they have to abide by the status quo or go rap about it with 50cents :dead

 

well then theres no reason for fighters to sign on. The fighters will fight where ever they can make the most money

 

I think the talented young boxers will tell them to get stuffed and simply go to Golden boy or Top Rank who will pay them big bucks.

 

...and where does APB come in to all this?

 

All the AIBA have to do is pay fighters to fight for their title & to give up other belts, why would you pay a sanctioning fee to an organisation when the AIBA will pay the champion & the challenger. Once all the other organisations are dead and buried they can introduce sanctioning fees etc.
This wouldn't affect promoters so GBP & TR can continue to do what they do. The only snag is how does the AIBA force their champion to fight the no1 contender?

 

Easily said :yep

It will take a half century of work to equal Jose Sulaiman glorification of the WBC...Most people are too lazy, relaxed, short sighted...to match Jose Sulaiman greatness represented by the irresistible desperately sought after WBC Green belt :deal

 

How much will they pay?

Guys who are making Millions the current way, mightn't care about a few grand either way.

I just dont see all the current promoter/manager/TV companies bending over so easily.

 

AIBA might not attract the current moneymakers but beyond the top 30 or so guys in each division the pay pro boxers receive is probably in line with what a relatively unskilled worker would recieve per annum. Naturally the next generation of amateurs will have some choices to make, but may choose to trust the organisation they know (AIBA) rather than the traditionally reputed sharkpool of professional promotrs.

Of course the top Promoters are gonna fight tooth and nail to attract the young successful ams (and obviously also to deny them an alternate means of making a living in the sport), but the broadcasters will follow the profit.

Thing is, a great number of top fighters have historically come through the amateur ranks...in most cass funded by government sports programs, but as these are gradually dying away with the steady erosion in public expenditure on sports programs, the amateur sport is suffering badly.

I tend to view AIBAs forray into pro boxing as more than anything a strategy to keep the amateur sport alive - the same amateur sport that has produced a many of the most memorable fighters in boxing over the last 4 or 5 decades.

I'm not about to declare AIBA a paragon of virtue or free from the corruption which has traditionally and endemically surround any sport (especially individual combat sports) but if they are, or even seem, able to unify our fractured favourite, I'm more than willing to give it my backing.

What better place to start than with the young and talented of the next generation which AIBA (in theory at least) represent?

 

funding is pretty high in Europe, elite level amatuers are on 40 grand plus a year, and expenses paid and some have sponsorship on top of that.

If you factor in they get all there travel ,training and medical bills paid for eg phsios's and get to train in world class facilities for free thats a lot of money.

as mentioned above if you take out the top 20-30 guys in each division the rest are probebly getting paid less than amateurs. And in the lower divisions its a real possibilit that the amateurs could be making more than the pros.

They have the security of a wage, and if injured they still get paid. Put on top of this the 5k they get for every WSB win and money they will get for APB events it could add up to a very good living

 

Great now we have five belts!

It reminds of that period in history when somehow there was two popes who got nominated and both were claiming to be the real pope. How people thought to resolve the issue: naming a third one, so that there was three popes!