You are granted one boxing wish

Cheesy, but still if I only got one, it has to be:

No more boxing related deaths.

 

A true shame, along with college football's BCS system among the greatest travesties in organized (and I use that term loosely) sports!

 

I would agree how many of these 12 rd decisions that we have seen over the last 20 years or so, that might drastically have changed the history of boxing? Imagine some of the 12+ rd KO's and wars through the years that we would also be deprived of had this rule been in place years earlier..this would get my 2nd vote!

 

1 title per division
10-12 divisions instead of 16/17
same day weigh-in
15 rounds

:good

 

What about people's fantasy match-ups? The old classics: Hagler/Monzon, Sugar Ray/Sugar Ray, Duran/Whitaker etc.

 

No one ducks no one. To bad I only have one wish...

 

Yeah, as great as the sport is in its essence, imagine how much better it could be with a little bit, make that a lot of justice thrown in. Fighters that have to fight the most worthy opponents, when matches are made because of a hierarchical system in place, and not because its the safest and biggest payday available to them.

It's a testament to the sport itself that we still watch. If football or baseball or any other sport asked this much of us, even fewer of us would watch those sports than do boxing.

 

How do you do this? I can see how you could minimize them, but I don't know how you eliminate them altogether.

 

It is a wish, a fantasy, it will probably never happen, much like everything else mentioned.

 

HUH?? is that like watching NASCAR so you can see a big wreck????

 

Well, I can't quite agree here, brother. Now, if you're talking about the violence, the possibility of big shots and blood and a fighter having to find the best of himself to come back when he's one punch away from losing consciousness, then I'd say, of course it is a fundamental part of the allure of the game. But the psychological factor, the ploys, the baiting, the fighting to the other guy's strength, the outmaneuvering that goes on especially when the styles match up right, that to me is when the game is at its best.

 

It didn't sound like in your OP that you were refering to head gear, but rather that the opportunity for a persons brutal demise added excitement???