Dumbest thing about boxing....?

What a terrible piece of matchmaking that was. I saw Balderas live in July vs Frankel. He looked like he needed a lot of work, low right hand, leaky defense, very susceptible to the left hook. Why they threw him in with a 13-1, hungry, 20 year old like Giron was just head scratching. Balderas needs a new team, I believe he's still trained by his dad and his whole amatuer team. Bummer.

 

Totally agree man, shame too cause the kid is extremely gifted and talented and has good skill.

 

Sanctioning bodies, TV Networks, Money-Money-Money the best should fight the best in their respectable prime.

 

Well, I’d imagine it would be harder to turn in crappy score 12 time’s than it is to do it once. Add some authority that could tell judges to pull themselves together while the fight is still ongoing and it could change quite a bit.
It’s all theoretical of course, good old performance management would do the trick if anyone actually did it.

 

This times a thousand. Everyone is a "glass chinned, feather-fisted bum who hasn't fought anyone or is ducking everyone while being a drug cheat that can't box." They all complain about fighters "protecting the 0" but then crap all over anyone that loses a fight and bring it up incessantly. Ugh.

 

Summed it up nicely, lol

 

All the top contenders avoiding each other.

Younger fighters fighting legends as they are getting older.

 

Spot on mate, it doesn’t translate to any other sport, imagine that being a premier league champion allows you to choose the teams to play in the premier league, giving you maximum advantage (holding all the cards). Manchester City would probably choose Norwich, Villa, Brighton, Sheffield United followed by Southampton, and who could blame them? In any situation in life that allowed you to give yourself any advantage and the best chance of victory and a financial gain without breaking any rules, 99 percent of people would go for it.
I don’t blame them it’s the system that’s wrong.
In the past boxers had to fight the best in their division to get the best money out there, no the sport is so flush you can fight nobody’s and still pull life changing money, and the longer you go unbeaten the longer the money continues to flow so why risk it?
Picking your opponents is wrong, the system is there to be manipulated, after fighting a high ranked opponent maybe you could qualify for a lower ranked opponent, picked from a pool of fighters just outside the elite of the division. But picking your own opponent is just wrong and bad for any sport