If you had £100m to invest in boxing

Lolz.

 

I agree, boxing doesn't need the money for the sake of it. What is needed in my view:-

1. One champion recognised in each division.
2. Proper scoring and judging, no home decisions or fixes.
3. Proper remuneration based on performance not image and pulling power.
4. No rematch clauses etc.
5. More good fights, less mismatches.
6. Boxers who don't fear losing an unbeaten record.
7. A panel like the Ring Magazine who rank fighters etc.
8. A scheme to look after fighters when they retire.
9. Training on how to act and behave in public.

 

I'd put myself on a fight card and pay myself £99,999,000 to fight a can, who will get the rest of the purse.

 

I'd pay Chisora and Don Charles to make a rap album together.

 

I would buy 40% stakes in each of the belt orgs, and demand an accountable board voted for by those paying sanctioning fees. The umbrella company would function like the ABC offering standard rules for them to follow. These would include a genuine undisputed champion in the division. If you hold a title you are expected to unify. If you do not you will be stripped. Eventually I would phase out the individual orgs.

 

I'd put a percentage into making boxing in schools compulsory. Teach these kids respect and discipline, something many seem to miss out on today.

The remaining money I would invest in a terrestrial channel, say ITV, so boxing and boxers could be shown regularly, reinventing the interest and introducing new fans who would otherwise be unable to see boxing.

 

This.

That's really all boxing is missing. The big fights and the big fighters on terrestrial television. Everything else takes care of itself.

 

I would bring back Boxing on ITV - The Big Fight

Return to the period when Benn, Eubank etc pulled in 10M viewers

Imagine fights like Murrey v Mitchell on primetime national TV

or go back 10 years imagine the drama of a national audience seeing Danny Williams fight 1 handed against Potter and turn the fight around

 

This isn't one of your threads......

Dont forget back in the 90's when ITV was getting the figures you quoted the majority of people only had 4 channels!

But I agree Boxing should be shown to the masses, but think it would take big big fights to reach those figures

 

I'd ring Carl Froch :good

Nah, personally I'd open up some top class boxing gyms and go from there, I like the terrestrial tv channel idea as well

 

I wouldn't.

 

I wouldn't invest it in boxing, if I had 100M I would probably have a serious drug habit that making an investment in anything other then a wild party would seem unreasonable....however, to play along, if I had 100M I would call up Calzaghe and Hatton, smash a few lines and a few large drinks, move out to Vegas and just blow my money on all things boxing related and partying :rofl
I'd also pay my kebab man a nice £10K tip to all his services and hope he could continue delivering to the peasants for free

 

£100 million is more than enough to run a successful promotional company. It's more money than all the promoters in Britain at present have put together (trust me).

Plus, it would provide you with around £40k a week in interest alone. To put that into context, that's enough money (added to some ticket sales) to stage a domestic title bill every couple of weeks (every week in the smaller weights). You'd could be at level of a Hennessy or Maloney without ever really having to take much out of your hundred mill.

I could draw you up a long list of top notch fighters around British title level who would snap your hand off if you offered them a small signing fee, a guarantee of around 20k - 30k a fight and maybe some sponsorship.

You've seen the lengths boxers are prepared to go to for 32k in Prizefighter.

There's people out there you have been British champions and only got 10 to 15k a defence.

 

I'd put the money into a program designed to produce great American heavweight boxers.

Throw scolarship money at the kids who're going to college to play basketball and american football.

 

I'd make fans decide who fights who!

Boom Boom.

No promoters.