How would YOU organize Boxing?

1) Create a central organization to govern the sport

2) Keep the top 4 alphabet titles, but in order for them to remain licensed, the central governing body collects their profits to reinvest into long-term retirement plans and health care for fighters. Each ABC org takes on a regional focus- Europe and Africa, North and South America, Asia-Oceana, and the final one is the "wild card", which would allow anyone to hold it.

3) Every 3-4 years, a "Grand Prix" style tournament is held amongst the 4 titleholders to determine who the unified champion is.

4) Should the unified champion not want to defend a particular belt against the org's #1 contender in a timely fashion, it is forfeited and the new beltholder is determined by #1 and #2 fighting each other.

5)There would be incentive for unification fights in the meantime as well, as holding onto more than one belt would earn the fighter a bye in the Grand Prix.

6) Stagger the weight class's Grand Prixs, so every year the sport will get 4 different ones.

 

There are some great suggestions here, obviously most of us want less divisions and less ABC's.

I do like the suggestion about the Americas champion and the Rest of the World Champion that was mentioned before

My New Divisions would be something like this I think:

105/6 - Light Flyweight ?
112 - Flyweight
118/9 - Bantamweight
126 - Featherweight
135 - Lightweight
145 - Light Welterweight
155 - Welterweight
165 - Middleweight
175 - Light Heavyweight
>200 - Cruiserweight
<200 - Heavyweight

 

I would organize it one world title as well because of the corruption of the organizations. The problem now is there are more fighters now than there were back in the forties so we cant have one champion unless someone unifies all of the belts but with one world title nobody can duck each other, but fighters have to fight more often instead of once or twice a year if the all time greats such as Sugar Ray Robinson and Henry Armstrong can fight a few times out of the year with more smash mouth type rules and 15 rounds then I see no reason boxers today cant do it

 

Better cards would help too with 3 or 4 big fights on a card rather than just 1 main card.

 

I would do whatever makes me the most money because I am a **** like Bob Arum

 

Original weight classes + cruiser.
(Other classes to be used as catchweights for fights between champs of different divisions)
1 champ, one #1 challenger in each division.
Champ must fight twice a year or prove injury/circumstances, once vs #1 challenger
Same-day weigh-ins
5 judges
Championship fights on PPV, all others on network TV.
No Cortez, King, or Sulaiman.

 

Like some have said one world title each division. It would make boxing great again. Create a superheavyweight division for guys like the Klitchkos.

 

wow. welt at 155.

 

I like everything you say except the same day weigh ins. Guys will be dehydrated and that could risk them in the fight. And whether we like it or not guys like Cortez,King and Sulaiman will always be around boxing.

 

one world title each class. make it a sport in high school, college, where they have boxing teams. promoters can come and watch and recruit either in high school or college, not just in golden gloves, or olympics. have schools compete against each other, just like baseball, basketball, football etc. imagine how cool you'd be on campus if you were champion and a legitimate baddass. it would get the whole school community interested in boxing.
fighters should be able to work one fight with one promoter and then move on if they choose so that their will never be an excuse as to why a fight cant get made because promoters don't want to work with each other.


KILL BOB ARUM AND GARY SHAW!!!

 

one Organization is too dream scenario for me ... and with 4 current major alphabets how exactly do we get down to one?

IMO it would be best to try and get these organizations working on the same page

maybe as someone else suggested have the WBC and WBA merge together

same goes for WBO and IBF

then do a big "unification week" where all the respective champions match up to unify their respective belts.

but the big catch is once titles are unified they'd stay unified. **as we know a big problem in boxing comes from champions randomly getting stripped and other garbage that goes with it. Permanently unifying belts so we have 2 recognized champs beats the current four.

I mean I'd be all for having just one title, but again with the current system of 4 major recognized belts .. how do you work around that?

 

imo if you're dehydrating for a same-day weigh-in as a pro you deserve to get your ass kicked lol.

Very good idea. I've been saying for a while that this is the way forward for American boxing. And there's a TON of kids that boxing could steal from other sports if we get them early enough, because how can you not become addicted to boxing when you try it? :good Plus, more fighters, more fights, more competition...boxing skill overall will progress. Football players today are insanely better than they were years ago, and I think it's because football is everywhere now and kids are raised with it.

 

put Dana White in charge.
force Arum,Don King into retirement.Dissolve GBP

 

Amateur Weight Divisions

Light Flyweight: up to 106 pounds
Flyweight: 112
Bantamweight: 119
Featherweight: 125
Lightweight: 132
Light Welterweight: 141
Welterweight: 152
Middleweight: 165
Light Heavyweight: 178
Heavyweight: 201
Super Heavyweight: over 201

I think that's about right, obviously replace Heavyweight with Cruiserweight and limit it at 200lbs and replace SHW with Heavyweight

 

I would set it up at the high school level.

Get rid of Football and have rivalries where boys duke it out over stupid women from other high schools.