If boxing was run like the ufc...

Speaking about Vic and UFC , I came across this today,

Vic TAKING ON THE UFC - James Hooper Sunday Telegraph

WITH a brutal knockout record, explosive speed and a father who was an Olympic wrestling coach, Vic Darchinyan has all the tools to make the transition to cage fighting. As the Ultimate Fighting Championship prepares to explode in Sydney this week, the Raging Bull - with six boxing world titles - has spoken of his desire to enter the octagon.
Darchinyan has been training with Parramatta Eels cage fighting guru James Te Huna in the lead-up to his next fight against Mexican Rodrigo Guerrero in California on March 6.
"At the right time, I want to have a go at cage fighting. I've done wrestling since I was very young, so I believe it's something I could compete at if I wanted to," Darchinyan said.
"My father was an Olympic wrestling coach for Armenia, so he was teaching me from the time I was very small. In a year or two, it's something I'm definitely going to do."

Make no mistake, cage fighting is gunning to overtake boxing as the combat sport most-widely accepted in mainstream society.
In the past 10 years in the US, it's evolved from a brutal underground combination of mixed martial arts into a booming multi-million-dollar industry televised worldwide.
The stars of the UFC touched down in Sydney yesterday as they prepare for next Sunday's 10-fight card at Homebush's Acer Arena and will embark on a heavy promotional tour this week.
The event is so popular, tickets to the 16,500-seat venue sold out in a little over an hour.
Channel Ten's One HD will televise the action live and there is talk the free-to-air network might make a play to televise all UFC shows.
Seizing on the groundswell of support, UFC heavy hitters quickly organised for big-screen televisions to be set up at an alternative Homebush live site and started selling more tickets, which have also sold strongly.
Eels grappling guru Te Huna will make his UFC debut against Croatian Igor Pokrajac and has been working with Darchinyan for a month.
One aspect of his training that Darchinyan remains unhappy about is being forced to cancel a month-long US preparation in the lead-up to next month's fight against Guerrero. The six-time world champion has lashed out at the Federal Government after the Department of Immigration and Citizenship rejected his sister's application to travel to Sydney on a student visa.
Despite a $1 million guarantee that Liana Darchinyan would not overstay her welcome and become an illegal immigrant, the Australian Embassy in Russia has so far refused to process the paperwork.
Darchinyan hoped to bring his sister to Australia to help support his wife Olga and son Ruben in Sydney while he was away.
He will instead fly out for the US on February 22, with just 12 days to acclimatise to California.

 

Forgive my ignorance on how boxing is ran but is it hard to have the top fighters face each other? To many politics?

 

If boxing was like the UFC guys like floyd wouldn't be able to cherrypick fighters he would be made to fight the best.

 

Souls mate, I, like you (And many others) wish that boxing (And MMA) had only one organisation!!

But the fact is that there are far too many "Noses in the trough" (Promoters/etc) and have you ever tried removing a hungry pig from it's feed?.

I suppose the one (And only) good thing about having multiple world champions at the same weight is that it (Usually) ensures that the "Champions" earn some good pay-days, (and i'm all for that). In a "Single Champion" world, some of those guys would not earn a fraction of what they do, if they were only challengers. Of course, many will say "So what? If they aint good enough, they don't deserve the dough" but I, (for my part) am happy to see all fighters earn as much as they can.

P.S I hear you (Regarding Fedor)!!

 

Fighters in the UFC do fight but it is no different to Arum pitting Pac vs Cotto, Cotto vs Margo, Clottey vs Pac etc No different to DLH pitting his fighters against each other. UFC just has a monopoly over the best MMA. Strikeforce have begun to break that monopoly as they have Fedor, Mousasi, Henderson etc

As soon as the UFC have a genuine rival organisation the same issues will arise. Just as they did when Pride were big and there were a SHITLOAD of match ups we did not see.

 

It can sometimes prove to be impossible to have the top fighters face each other!! As a fan, such a scenario is extremely frustrating!!!

Often it is due to politics!! You have promoters protecting their interests (i.e their fighters), promoters continuing their "Feuds" with other promoters/t.v networks/pay per view channels. You have sanctioning organisations demands, you can have fighters contracted to fight on one channel/pay per view network (etc).

Sometimes it is due to fighters (At their own request, or on the advice of their camp) simply not wanting to fight certain opponents!!

Consider Mayweather-vs-Pacquaio!! Thus far, $40 million each and a shot at true boxing "Greatness" has been insufficient to get the two best pound for pound fighters of their generation in the same ring (Both are to blame)!! When you have something like that occur, you know boxing has serious problems!

I am a fan of both the above named and this is simply an answer to your question, and not an attempt to "Rake over old turf".

 

:good Great point!!