How to make the boxing better?

1 belt per every weight category.

Minimum of 2 or three fights per year for a fighter otherwise you lose your belt or mandatory position.

Logical ranking based on real results and performances.

 

One or two belts per division. Less divisions. Perhaps a lenient rehydration limit to counterbalance the removal of same-day weight-ins.

It won't happen though. Not while you can squeeze every last penny from all the straps and pseudo-champions. Healing of boxing would be a long and uncomfortable proccess, and while it's still kicking and making money, nobody is doing that. Not to mention that would require a coordination from the web of corrupt governing bodies and promoters, who typically hate each other.

Making big fights would suffice to improve the state of things. For a while when 135 was kicking, and heavyweight was turned upside down with Fury and Usyk appearing on the scene, the sport was alive again. Fury-Usyk was supposed to be the greatest fight of the last two decades.

 

Fury v Usyk might be the biggest draw PPV. I'd rather watch Beterbiev v Bivol though. Fights are marinated WAY too much nowadays. Someone told me that boxing is a business and not a sport. Hate the idea of that but it's fundamentally apparent. Glam celebs trashing. Warriors out in the cold.

 

Simple - more fighters need to be like Canelo and Jermell Charlo. Cleaning out their respective divisions then making history with a Super Fight this weekend. Look at the stacked card this weekend. If more fighters would be like Canelo and Jermell, boxing will be fine. Fighters need to be incentived to take risks rather than to take easy fights just to pad their record.

This has actually been a great year of boxing, we've gotten fights like Tank Garcia, Bud Spence. Now granted those two matches turned out to be pretty one-sided, but at least the best out there were attempting to take on the best. We need to see more of that, and this weekend's event needs to be embraced by all.

The problem is that so many party poopers exist on this site who have been trying to take away from the big match coming up this weekend. Fans wonder why boxing is struggling, fans wonder why Showtime is coming to an end after next year, well it's got a lot to do with all the posters on here who refuse to embrace big fights when they happen, like Canelo vs Charlo.

Many posters on here constantly brag about pirating the fight or not paying for the PPV. I'm sorry but people like that are who is responsible for Showtime coming to an end. Those who aren't enthusiastic about Canelo vs Charlo, who say they won't buy the PPV, etc. They're the problem, and they're why boxing isn't thriving like it should. Frankly we need more enthusiastic boxing fans who embrace big events, who truly get excited for big Super Fights like this one coming up this weekend. The party pooper fans are the ones responsible for the issues boxing has.

 

My proposal is that we get rid of scoring and knockouts and make every fight be to the death. That way, there won't be guys who worry about walking around with a loss on their record, because a loss means they're dead and dead men have no worries. Also eventually all the journeyman and C tier fighters will be gone and the top guys will have no choice but to fight each other.

...All the good ideas were said already

Jokes aside, prolly the best first step would be cutting down to about 9-10 weight classes. There's no need for there to be 17, or 18 if you count the one only recognized by the WBC.

 

This and one champion per weight class. That's it

 

1. 15 round fights, this will eliminate some horrid decisions and heavyweights will be challenged also
2. Day of fight weigh in's, no more middleweights fighting for the welterweight title
3. Governing bodies have to apply rules, such as an inactive fighter falls in the rankings. Fury for instance should be stripped for not defending his title this year. A fighter must defend against the #1 contender at least once a year if not twice and ranked contenders must fight each other for title shots
4. fewer titles, this one would be difficult. But say only 2 belts would cause more fights among contenders
5. Review of officials and referees who deliver comical scores and decisions that could result in suspensions and bans.

Odds of any of this? absolute Zero

 

So predictable shadow.

Jermell has a robbery or two on his resume. Canelo has multiple, as well as numerous fixed fights (Kovalev, Callum Smith, Yildrim, GGG 3 etc). These make boxing a pantomime and circus, and not a sport. Some of the biggest jokes in boxing

 

Better match making. Not every good fight needs to be for a title. Get these young prospects fighting each other. Get the champs fighting each other and when they do, stack the undercard with old champs and young prospects.

 

You are so out of touch it's unreal

 

Obviously one belt per division.
Minimum 2 fighter per year.
If in the top ten, can ONLY fight fight a guy ranked within the top ten either 2 spot above, or 2 spots below.
Can take a 3rd 'gimme' fight, but only if already met the requirements of facing two top 10 opponents already.

 

You mean like Joshua v Wilder?

 

HIs delusion and loyalty to Canelo is scary. If he ever met canelo and got dissed, you know he'd go all DeNiro like in The Fan.

 

Under the current system you will always have fighters duck rivals they think will beat them, have guys on the way up just pad their records and wait until they get a break and a shot. We need to perhaps make a drastic change to how boxing is structured.

Maybe end the idea a fighter remains champion until they lose the title in the ring, you don't have that in other sports and it would put an end to people like Fury fighting basically exhibitions and guys like Jermall Charlo holding a belt hostage.

Other sports say like NFL, NBA, F1, Soccer etc all have championships every year, athletics has it every 2 years. So yes you may become world champion for that year or whatever set period of time but then boxing moves on and you need to prove yourself again the next cycle. This would ensure the best face the best all the time and there is no ducking or tying up the division and so fans and TV networks get a more reliable product, which only helps boxing grow as a sport.

But of course this will never happen without some kind of major external influence either forcing change or simply buying out the sanctioning bodies and then restructuring the sport. Boxing's failure to have a single unified body is a major reason why boxing has declined, while other sports rival government bodies merged in sports like Golf, Tennis, NFL etc boxing splintered and so it lost out to these more organised sports.