How to fix boxing ?

They know how to 'fix' boxing, believe me.

 

One champ per weight division

More Marquee name fighters on free tv

 

I've seen too many fixed fights already!

 

2 1 belt per division
3 1 Major organisation to look over boxing and make matchups
4 1 major organisation to pay fighters
5 13 round fights to try and get rid of draws in boxing
6 Joe Cortez to be retired and never officiate again
7 Mayweather either fights Pacquiao or never returns to boxing again
8 Haye either fights a Klitchko or never returns to boxing again

 

People always spout a lot of superficial and unrealsitic crap about this subject. The major sanctioning bodies are not going to go away, so forget the "one champ per division" nonsense. That's not going to happen, and it isn't necessary. Alexis Arguello, for example, never unified a title, but everyone knew who the champ was in all 3 of his divisions. Little Red held the WBC title at 126 for nearly 4 years, and never fought for the WBA title, but we knew who the champ was! Or, did anyone ever believe that Gerry Coetze was The Heavyweight Champion of the World? One champ per division is not necessary, and would not do jack **** to make boxing better. In fact, it may make things worse because it would be easier to hold the title hostage while fighting sub-par oppostion.

The 12 round title fights are just fine. It's not going to change because 15 round fights do not fit into the allotted television time as well.

What boxing needs more than anything else is better match making. The way to force better match making is through a meaningful unified ranking system. At present all the orgs use some crap that was probably invented by an unknown idiot savante!

I would give up a testicle to see the 4 major orgs agree on a meaningful ranking sytem. Do you realize that when Miguel Espino was the WBC #3 contender the WBC did not rank Felix Sturm? Do you realize that when Arthur Abraham defended his title against Elvin Ayala, Kelly Pavlik was not ranked by the IBF? This **** goes on and on in every division, and it needs to stop!

We need a ranking system that allows the top ten best fighters in a given division to actually be in the top 10 of all 4 major sanctioning bodies, and that sytem needs to say very clearly, "you get in the top 10 by beating a top 10 guy, and no other way!" And then it needs to say, "If you hold a major title, you WILL fight two top 10 fighters per year."

I realize there are some holes in my logic, and my post lacks some details, but I think you can catch my drift. This single change would revolutionize boxing.

 

This, and better exposure for said matches. Boxing needs to be on public tv in some capacity.

 

Very good post!:thumbsup

 

Agree there 100% :deal

 

all title fights should be on a ppv card, none of this no-name washed up fighters getting shots at future up and comers. We should have set cash prizes for certain fights in a top 10, like say fighter rank 3 gets 250,000 cash prize, he takes on fighter rank 7 who gets 80,000 cash prize, you get the average of the two 165,000 is what the purse will be. This will only work if you have a challenge system, like a fighter one spot below you can challenge and you have to take the fight or you lose ranking points.

 

The ranking system I suggested would have to include some of your suggestions. For example, top ten guys would have to fight other guys in the top 15 or so, or lose their spot. You'd also have to have some rules that outline how a prospect goes about getting a fight with a top 10-20 fighter, et.

At the end of the day, I am convinced that a more meaningful ranking system would lead to much better match making. That would lead to more great fights, and great fights lead to increased popularity.

 

Motha****in this.

The problem with all the sanctioning bodies is they operate like they're the **** and the other ones suck. IBF won't rank WBC and WBA champions but will rank the WBO titleholder because they don't consider it a major body. WBC will strip you if they don't feel like letting you fight another body's champion (IE: Threatening to strip Alexander for unifying. Go figure, IBF is doing that now.)

Then you have certain countries that don't even recognize the IBF and WBO like Japan, which is why you rarely see a fight for those belts in Japan. And by rarely I mean ever? Since I don't think it's happened. I think when Montiel went to Japan, the only title on the line was the WBC.

Bad Left Hook has a good feature on all 4 major bodies and how ****ed up they are. They've done some good like adding safety features the way the WBC has but they're so overtly corrupt, it's sickening.