Perhaps the proposed SMW league is the way forward!?!? Fighters are very afraid of losing as it takes away a lot of oppurtunities, and they seem to get written off after 1 defeat these days. A league would provide the safety of having an off night or a tight defeat and still coming out victorious overall!! Seems like something fighters and promoters might buy in to!?!! And the winner (and probably the runner-up) is going to be a huge star and probably P4P material, so there's great reward. I very much doubt you'd be able to get the very top fighters involved...but take 140 for example. Excluding Pac, Marquez and Hatton who I doubt would do it, you'd still be able to get the likes of Bradley, Campbell, Diaz, Paulie, Holt, Witter, Urango, Ortiz, Kotelnik, Maidana, (Maybe Judah), Guzman, J.Diaz involved!?!? Who wouldn't want to see that!?!?!
Anything that would encourage the best to fight each other i'd be in favor of. It would take everybody agreeing to it though and i don't see that happening.
It would definitely be great for the guys getting less exposure. But like you said the best will still pick and choose. Definitely good though. Because the winner would obviously get some shots at a big dog.
the thing is when someone gets a beating, losing every round. then the guy that beat the guy that won is still going to have to fight the loser. i would prefer a loser goes home tournament.
Yes knockout tournaments are best. League matches just don't have the same thing at stake. Right now, as bad as it is, a lot of match-ups are very decisive for the boxer's careers. This often makes it very interesting. One punch and your career is in shatters.
But isn't this what makes fighters avoid taking risks??? While I agree with you all that a knockout comp would be better....I don't think you're as likely to get fighters to sign up for the above reason!!
Nah, the format is needlessly complicated and could well throw up pointless/ uninteresting matchups towards the end of the first phase that neither the boxers, public or promoters are particulary interested in.
I think is this was a flat-out elimination tournament then it could provide a really interesting model for the future.
I think it would be better for the sport if everyone knew that a lot of the fighters at any given weight had faced similar competition instead of arguments about cherry picking, getting opponents at the right time etc, so I think tournaments are the way forward.
