Just Let Them Fight

Sure.

While we are at it let's just abandon any pretense of rules. **** it, let's have the All-Ped supersix tournament at every weight class. Fighters can be on any drugs they want and there's no ref or judges. Fights don't end until someone is out cold.

Back here in the real world, just imagine what you are suggesting would do to the sport of boxing if Eubank Jr collapses in the ring post fight and dies.

All kinds of government agencies would call for boxing to be outlawed. Boxing bodies like the WBC would cave under the pressure and we'd probably see a compromise with 14 ounce gloves and two minute rounds implemented as the new standard. British stoppages would be the new normal.

What you are suggesting could damage the sport irrevocably. It's not that boxing cares, it doesn't. However if Boxing abandons even the illusion that there are rules and consequences, it will make itself a pariah.

 

Both fighters want a payday

You don't get a payday fighting gypsy style

 

Boxing would be dead in the water if the fight went ahead and something happened to Eubank. It would be like letting a formula one driver compete drunk and then him wiping someone out.

 

Dracarys!

 

You are 100% correct. Imagine the negligence from the perspective of the law. Promoters allowing these guys to fight, knowing one failed a drug test? In this case it's out in the open, I wonder how many times things like this get swept under the rug.

 

TBH the rescheduled fight could be bigger if they bring Eubank Sr. into the picture with the narrative "his family has always been cheaters".

 

We should let the fighters use weapons too.

 

What if we had Eubank sign a waiver?

 

Yeah Hearn and Co. are on damage limitation at the moment.
I agree you have rules for a reason. I remember arguing the same on here a year or so ago when a certain poster was like everyone should take PEDS my counter was that not only would safety go out of the window it would still not be fair.
The reason being that the likes of Canelo and Joshua can easily take a hit on having the best gear without it really eating into their purse for the fight. Everyone else below that not so much.
I'm not naive. I know a lot of the top professionals in sport are on gear. It's just the way it is especially in sports where power and endurance are key attributes but we still have to have at least the illusion of integrity.
Casuals thinking it's outliers who do it really don't understand the history of sport. Cheating has always happened when a financial incentive is in front of someone. It's always been that way it's only recent decades where these things were even tested for.

 

People want to see fights between guys at their best. One guy was going up too far and the other was draining himself to a weight he never made as a pro. . It never made any sense.
The fight could easily have happened organically over time but they jumped the gun and rushed into it a few years too early.

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Time to get creative, Eddie - they don't need the BBBoC if they don't box...

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Spot on...

 

No. Benn should be fined and banned for 2 years. His promoter also be fined and all of his fighters carefully monitored over the next 2 years. All the funds from the fines should go to the clean opponent to compensate his months of preparation and training.