How would YOU organize Boxing?

It's simple but it seems impossible:

- One Champion
- Reduce the weight classes

I know no other sport, where you have this amount of World Champions. Which is a paradoxum, because we are living in one world.

At the moment we have a inflation of champions. When you have too much champions, then you have only a lot of guys with good looking belts.

 

Two Governing bodies.

WBA/WBC merge and there champion can only come from North or South America.

IBF/WBO merge and there champion is made up of the Rest of the World.

Then if the 2 ever fight the only way to win the Ring belt if the Champs meet.

Say Your America's Champ at Heavy is Eddie Chambers.
Say Your Rest of the World Champ is Wlad Klitschko.

The only way any of them gets a Ring belt if they fight each other winner gets a Ring Belt.

The Champ has to defend twice a year from someone in there region.

Then the Super fights would be bigger. You get a Ring Champ that deserves it. But whoever wins cant keep the title from not there region. It gets vacated and you start again.

Why two regions because it would bring out massive super events like All Stars events.

Mate you could sell the **** out of it.

Imagine it like this.

Ok this month the All Star Event has
FIGHT 1
Eddie Chambers (WBC/WBA,American Champ)
VS
Wlad Klitschko (IBF/WBO,Rest O World Champ) For Ring Belt at Heavy

FIGHT 2
Steve Luevano (WBC/WBA Americas)
VS
Chris John (IBF/WBO RoWorld) For Ring belt at Featherweight

FIGHT 3
Chad Dawson (WBC/WBA Americas)
VS
Bernard Hopkins (#1 Contender) For the Americas Title at Light Heavy

FIGHT 4
Joshua Clottey (IBF/WBO ROWorld)
VS
Selcuk Aydin (#1 Contender) For the Rest O World Title at Welterweight

FIGHT 5
Hozumi Hosegawa ( IBF/WBO Rest O World))
VS
Joseph Agbeko (#1 Contender) For Bantamweight RO World Title.

You think about it a Super event every month. With about 5 title fights and 2 for the RING Belt.

How many PPV Buys would you sell if the was the card.

Please forgot UFC numbers.

International Stars aswell as home grown talent. Once a month a card like that a All Star card. And you only get a shot at the title if your next in line.

 

1 world champ per division.

Get rid of minimumweight.

Get rid of cruiserweight.

I like the before mentioned minimum of 3 fights per year 1 mandatory 2 championship fights.

Reward money for best fight of the night ect

Nobody over the age of 40 aloud to compete (except for old bernie)

 

I would restructe the weight divisions first.

HW 204-and up
CW 180-203
LHW 170-179
MW 160-169
JMW 151-159
WW 143-150
LW 134-142
FW 133-126
BW 125-119
FW 118-113
SW 112- and below

SMW, JWW, SFW, JFW, and JBW are eliminated.

I would fine championship boxers if they take longer than 19 weeks to defend their belt, to make sure they fight often. If a boxer needs more than 19 weeks to rest than they would have to notify the state athletic commission.

 

Yes to that.

And one umbrella organization to rule over all.

And 5 judges on every fight . . . one judge on each side of the ring and the fifth judge will be the ref. Selection of judges and ref would be through a draw which is televised and open to the public.

 

1.) I'd see to it that more tournaments like the supermiddleweight one occur. Let the best fight the best and crown the last man standing. No room for argument. What happens if a beltholder doesn't want to participate? The tournament proceeds without him.

2.) I'd get rid of the WBA and the IBF and legitimize the IBO in their place. Granted, it's still an alpabet org but if you look you'll see that some of the sport's more prominent fighters have worn it.

3.) I'd try hard to find a way to avoid belt hijackings like Zsolt Erdei's. You gotta be a C-level fighter just to qualify as an opponent for a guy like him. There have been plenty of these scenarios over the years and they do nothing other than give no-hopers a nice payday.

 

The idea is good, but this system is like the actual. Some "Champions" like Erdei, Sturm .. have no interest to fight someone.

But in your system, there would be noone , who could call himself world champion if they don't want to fight another champ. This would be a huge step.

 

I'd start off by kicking the judge, who scored the Prescott vs Vasquez fight for Prescott, in the nuts and FIRING him. Hey, it's a start!

 

But in this system they are made to fight the #1 contender twice a year. and if there turn comes around they fight the Champ from the other region for the Ring belt.

Imagine young up and comers like Khan etc could be hidden for as long.

Not if they wanted the title.

Think about it.

To move to the #contender spot for title shot you have to beat someone ahead of you.

Im going to use say 140 for example.

AMERICAS

Champ- Timothy Bradley
#1 Cont- Marcos Maidana
#2 Cont- Nate Campbell
#3 Cont- Kendall Holt
#4 Cont- Paulie Malginaggi
#5 Cont- Juan Urango

REST OF WORLD

Champ- Manny Pacquiao
#1 Cont- Junior Witter
#2 Cont- Amir Khan
#3 Cont- Ricky Hatton
#4 Cont- Andriy Kotelnik
#5 Cont- Paul McCloskey

Now Whoever is Champ defends at least twice a year. Only either against the #1 in the region or the other belt holder for Ring belt if they deserve it.

If someone wants to be the champ they fight the best in the region making good money then mega fights. All Star events.

Imagine a 5 title belt Card. With fighters like Manny Pacquiao,Chad Dawson, Kelly Pavlik fighting on the same card.

The numbers would go through the roof.

Think with International stars from the UK and a european star like Wlad with a huge JMM numbers for your mexicans.

Think like not 2 million buys but think 20 million.

 

This is a good question. As there are so many problems with boxing in order to get it into shape. But here is my 2p's worth.

1 - One Organization to run rule over Boxing, like Fifa to football. However, each region could have there own organization, which had to follow the world rules.

2 - One World Champion per division. To fight two-three times per year. Against the the number one contender. Although, if injured, they would get dispensation. Anyone that refuse's to fight, gets striped.

3 - When a Champion retires, Moves weight division, refuses to fight. A Box off his held between the fighters ranked 2 & 3.

3 - One Ranking system, like in Tennis.

4 - 13 rounds for World Title fights. Less draws.

5 - Fights to be staged all over the world. Boxing needs to get out of the desert and back into packed stadiums.

6 - Get rid of Minimum weight, Superfly and Super feather. Keep the others.

7 - Investment program's to be set up. Far too many boxer's end up with out a pot to **** in.

8 - One set of Health regulations to be used worldwide.

9 - All promoters to have a license. This will be reviewed every five years. While if caught of any wrong doing, banned for certain times.

10 - Drug cheats banned for two years.

There is probably stuff that I have missed out, but I think I have got most of what I think is needed in.

 

Are promoters necessary, I would love to get rid of them. Also less advertising all over the ring, etc and less ppv

 

Once organization

Eliminate 4-6 weight classes.

Network television deal in the US with monthly championship fights.

Ranking similar to professional tennis.

One World Championship belt, one belt per continent, one belt per major country.

Start from scratch with the champions. A 16-man seeded elimination tournament in each division to determine the new champion

 

I wouldn't make any changes to weight divisions, but the fight would HAVE to fight eachother. If you're demolishing opponents, and there is another contender doing the same. **** it you're fighting him. All fights would be 40-40 winner gets the other 20.

 

Is pretty much the answer.

UFC is a sanctioning body, just like the WBO/WBA/IBF & WBC with the difference being that UFC keeps the other MMA sanctioning bodies firmly in its shadow.

 

A good start esp' the tennis ranking system idea.