Bored of boxing politics!

...Yeah, it's my fault.

 

No, it's our fault.

Don't be so sensitive sweety.

 

Another problem in the sport is the "10 must" scoring sysetem,it makes alot of fights to have a controversial winner.Anyway the best thing that could happen is to make a "World Title" for each weight not 5 or 6 like today,this won't let fihters to "milk" a belt and be champions by fighting fighters ranked 15th in the division.

 

If say every fighter was promoted by GBP it'd be the same way in boxing. UFC has a death grip on the sport, once other organizations spring up and offer more money the same thing will happen to it.

 

its really a testiment to this great sport, that its still breathing inspite of all the forces working against it

with all its enemies, now more boxing abolitionists then ever before
no central authority or one structured governing body
all the decision makers i.e promoters, tv execs murdering their own babies

and plenty more other problems, its really a miracle the sport is still alive and well, but for how long?

 

As long as people craveworld class boxing, so ,forever, but it may deteriorate into a joke that is beyond fixable if this keeps up.

 

but how long does that "craving" last? the sports fanbase has stagnated with lack of exposure and poor promotion, its not capturing the new younger fans needed to carry it forward and tell stories to their grandchildren (i got into the sport through by dad's love for it), fighters that would be heroes and mega mainstream starts in the sports heyday are not household names in their own kitcken

 

Boxing has to attract the non-committed fan. People like us who come to boxing sites know what should be taken seriously and what shouldn't but we're not as important as the millions and millions who would watch and maybe pay if they could get there heads around the boxing world. The alphabets are just strangling the sport to death and chasing that quick buck.

 

It wasn't always solely about the money. The world heavyweight title was seen as the greatest prize in sport - money naturally came with it. Thanks mostly to the alphabets it is now in pieces and means little now. In this climate just who would be bothered to aspire to want to own it? Very few I'd guess.

The alphabets give us all the ammunition (ratings, rule breaking etc) we need to severly discredit them. We just need boxing journalists and fans to start throwing their crap back at them. Any sporting governing authority that would pull an equivalent stunt to that of ranking Gary Lockett as #1 middleweight contender would have its fans and press howling from the rafters in protest. In boxing it is accepted. This is what needs to change.