Such as the Super Six super middle weight tourney that made Andre Ward top dog. Remember the Middleweight tourney that MADE all the champions fight each other to unify the title? Hopkins and Trinidad cleaned out the division before meeting in the championship. Right now it seems like 147 and heavyweight could really benefit from some sort of tournament. The big flaw in most sanctioning bodies is that they don't recognize or rank the other belt holders so there is no real incentive for them to fight each other. In my opinion, tournaments offer money and a new level of fame to the fighters and provide a way for unification to happen. Promoters keep talking about the best fighting the best but they don't often make the fights happen. Your thoughts?
Yes it does. It will end the ****ing debate on who can beat who if they all just fight each other. Fighters are dependent on old guys to "MAKE" them Superstars, well **** that. Everyone should line up Mortal Kombat style and fight every month until only one emerges victorious. Then he should have to defend his status every 3 months or get stripped like I was on Fight Night Champions online mode. But really it should be tournament style but the money is too much so it will never happen unless all promoters and fighters agree.
Heavyweights tend to fight each other more than the other divisions. Welterweight however is in a perfect spot that would make such a tournament very successful. Many young lions with good talent all roughly at the same place with their career and no current top dog.
Willie do you know much about the Playstation 4? Does it have good games? I still have a PS3. I like it.
No I still have a first gen X-BOX 360. I'm waiting for the whole thing to collapse on itself. Consoles are dead nearly. Time for game companies to just make a single remote and allow everyone to play each other without company involvement. You think the boxing politics are tough, game politics are ruthless.
It does. But the biggest problem is that only a few top boxers and their promoters in a division actually want that, and the others just don't. Usually these are the guys that have a big chance to win the tournament, or don't have much to lose if they don't. For the others it's fine to be a pretender and make money of gullible fans. If you can parade around with your WBA regular belt while there's a super Champion in place, many already seem to be fine with that and call themselves "world champion", no matter how hilarious. I really hope to see tournaments in the near future again. It would solve a lot of the problems boxing has.
Yes for the competetive integrity of the sport. In my opinion you can't really call yourself a world champion if you haven't fought the best in your divison, Call me old fashioned on that one.... The thing that would solve all the problems regarding what I mentioned is to have only 1 belt per diviosn, then that forces fight to happen on a more regular basis. You can't call yourself a champion unless you have beaten THE champ.
It would if mandatories are enforced too, so that the actual most deserving challenger gets a shot at it and not the guy that brings the most money, is the easiest to beat and/or is willing to do the most concessions.
It should to stop sh it like khan is pulling with brook but it won't Anyone remember two fighters enter a tournament and then give it but I don't want to fight my friend lol
yeah... but it still won't change that you have ponteitally 5 diffrent "champions" in the same division. Can someone explain how that works?
I think things would work fine if the officiating organizations just stopped refusing to rank each other's champions. The best guys would be forced to fight the best guys as their mandatories, and we wouldn't have bull**** title eliminators that puts the heavyweight championship in the hands of Charles ****ing Martin. The problem isn't the number of belts. The problem is that the organizations don't rank each other's champions and give them opportunities to fight for each other's belts.
