4-Point Plan To Improve Boxing

Adam, there have been a thousand threads echoing all four point that you make, but it will remain a niche sport because most of those will are highly unlikely

 

Welcome to ESB Adam...:good

 

It's how to get those changes made, thats the important question

 

Don't ejaculate. It's not the real Adam Smith.

 

**** off you Noob.

 

i agree with all points i think if the media threw their weight behind one belt(the ring maybe) and classed that as the championship belt and refered to the others as titlest it would clear up a lot of confusion and help the sport

 

I could not give a **** if it is or not, I always welcome any newbie onto the British Forum...:good

It's what is lacking at the moment, too many ****wits are trying to rip the British Forum to peices...:good

 

Well you seem to be a man of class. Most newbies only get a simple ''**** off noob''. You are a gentleman!:good

 

It goes along way when people on other threads try to marginalise us and say we are this, that and the other...:yep

On the British Forum we must show a bit of etiquette, it is what makes us what we are...:good

THE BEST...:deal

 

Would be good if Don King was still involved, always put on good undercards and treated his fighters well. Welcome to the Brit forum, the general forum is more interesting but this one is decent as well.

 

The real Adam Smith would never come on a forum. He knows he has insulted fans for years by staying in a job he can't do, so he would be terrified of the backlash.

 

I think the 'real' Adam Smith certainly wouldn't come on a forum and post a blog a criticising himself and his colleagues at sky whilst demanding that boxing is taken off of pay television, leaving Mr Smith without a job!

All 4 points are spot on but of course it's impossible and won't happen. What we need most of all is point number 1 though. We need someone to do what Dana White has done with MMA and have a successful franchise that tries to run the sport properly. Of course this would take a hell of a lot of patience, money and would require the backing of every single boxing media source out there. It can be done, but as we all know it won't be.

Boxing can capture the public's imagination like no other sport. Take Amir Khan's spell on ITV as an example. He was getting viewing figures of 5 million plus for fights against Michael Gomez and Gairy st Clair!

Sky Sports can help by stop showing awful 'afrobum' commonwealth title fights. The commonwealth title is nothing, yet somehow boxers/promoters seem to think that holding one helps sell a fight. And it does. But why? Because boxing media sources are telling fans and casual fans that certain fighters are champions when they're not.

Take the David Haye situation. Every boxing fan on the planet knows that Haye's not 'the' heavyweight champion of the world. Haye just picked up an alphabelt from the weakest title holder and is now defending it against poor, non-worthy opponents. But who can really blame David Haye? It's not his fault that boxing is the way it is. Had it not been for the collapse of Setanta, Haye would have fought Wladimir Klitschko back in June 2009 for the genuine heavyweight world championship. It would've been a great fight but d'you know what the most disappointing part is.. hardly anyone knew about the fight!

 

Come in shape, come to fight, fight the best and create a competative architecture that sees someone crowned the best.