Lets say I have 1 billion dollars worth of investments. Could I make a boxing organization (ala UFC); sign most of the top boxers...sign most of the top prospects...sign the most exciting/entertaining fighters. Eliminate all the bull**** that goes with having 17 weight divisions, 5 belts per weight division, hundreds of promoters looking to better their fighters record, not put on entertaining fight. Is this possible? There's so many great great matchups (entertainment wise) that could be made if all fighters were under one promotion it's ridiculous. If it was ran the right way, I think it would for sure work. Thoughts? 1. Get affiliated w multiple networks (versus, spike, espn, or maybe an abc/cbs/nbc/fox). 2. Have 25 shows per year (all on national tv)....If you got 90% of the best fighters under one promotion, TRUST ME, there would be more than enough fights to make each event big. 3. Have 5-10 of those shows on PPV...There's a huge demand for standup combat (even most mma fans will tell u this). Have the best standup fighters in the world fight each other in deep, competitive cards. 4. You don't have to go crazy spending money trying to sign everyone right away. You get as many as possible; with a big bargaining chip simply being "You can be a legend in xxxx promotion...and lead the way for all future fighters who want to be great boxers."
No one would be your friend at the beginning. It would take a lot of time, money, losses etc....Every1 in the system would do everything in their power so u get ****ed. But in the end, if it was run right, it would prevail 10 times out of 10. That's assuming there's as much interest in entertaining standup combat as I think there is.
Sure this would work in someone's dreams. No boxer would ever agree to this because it would essentially cap what they can do financially. The UFC works so well because they pay **** to 95% of their fighters and they don't have any real competition(or at least they didn't) in the States or Europe. The company coming closest to doing anything remotely like this are Golden Boy Productions who put on an Epic undercard for Mayweather-Marquez in comparison to the usually stuff.
1. Most boxers that aren't in the top top echelon of boxers are capped what they can do financially...There's lots of great/entertaining fighters that get little to no tv time that could be signed for peanuts. 2. Besides Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and Kiltschkos...almost all other fighters are capped as to what they can make. If they were part of a huge unified promotion, they're name recognition would build up and thus they would get paid more money than otherwise. 3. Being a part of something, being on tv consistently, being in video games yearly, being a part of a honest organization where you can move up and down the rankings by the strength of ur performance; not through other bull****....I think that's something almost any fighter would be interested in.
