Alternatively licensed boxing – Pushing the sport forward or endangering its future?

You 'accept' an argument, not 'except' an argument.

Also, it's spelled, "Politician."

 

loads of white collar around of varying standards. so are quite good and ex amateurs and prob at semi pro level. others are hopeless.

bunce mentioned alan lacey. good guy. his fights are predominantly the banker / lawyer type who train for 3 months and then fight once.

 

I don't see the problem anyway, boxing is boxing.

People need to chill the **** out.

 

Lets take White Collar out of the equation for starters, it's a charity boxing event which pits office workers against each other after a 12 week training camp. Participants are not meant to have any boxing experience (or very little) and won't be trying to make a career out of it.

Unlicensed is different as it it generally has a lot of ex amateurs and even some ex pro's compete in it. They tally records and have championships but overall it's far less skilled than pro boxing or even amateur most of the time and doesn't warrant a large support system. As said you do get a lot of ex amateur and pro boxers compete so you get some decent fights sometimes but I've also seen a hell of a lot of mismatches in it. The boxers get paid a decent purse though which is why you get a lot of amateur boxers competing and hoping the authorities don't find out.

From what I've found by going to these events is that the White Collar and Unlicensed rely on friends and family of the boxers to make up the gate and that's basically how they make their money. This can be similar to boxers early careers in the pro game when they box on small hall shows but the pro game can generally rely on fans of the sport to make money as well as through sponsorship's etc.

White Collar and Unlicensed have little effect on the pro game as anyone who is caught competing in them will have their license revoked and the majority of fans are different.