Lack of Cross-Promotional Co-operation

Woodhouse-McCloskey?

Wasn't that KO'd because it's not a good fight?

 

how about a rule that states....

If a fighter pulls out of a title fight that has been won via purse bids, no boxer managed by that fighters manager will be eligable for title fights for the next 6 months.

 

A fighter shouldn't be managed and promoted by the same person.

I'd go a step further and say a promoter shouldn't be allowed to manage fighters.

 

:good

If a fight doesn't have a legit injury and pulls out of fight ordered by the Board then BBBofC should refuse to sanction any title fights featuring that fighter.

I think the TV companies are to blame for the lack of co-promotions cos what happens is Sky give Matchroom a date or Maloney a date and they fill it with their own fighters (usually). That's why Sky should never give promoters a bunch of dates.

The whole thing would work a lot better if no one had any guaranteed dates and Sky effectively put them all out for auction. If that means more promoters collaborating then even better.

 

:deal

 

Rob is advocating punishing fighters that have done nothing wrong, purely for something a stablemate has done. Bad idea, grossly unfair and probably unlawful.

 

It can't be enforced, restraint of trade.

Not your fault a stablemate picks up an injury or is a ducker.

The only people that can force fights are the TV people, unless the board bring in a rule where if you vacate a title to aren't eligible for a straight shot unless you beat a ranked contender. Of course they'd then have to start ranking contenders.

Sky could say 'if you want our money it's you vs X, or a world title shot'. Too often we see a domestic contender sat on his arse doing nothing and some crappy import getting the fight instead for a commonwealth or euro title.

 

Ah, I read Rob's post wrong.

But it would send a message out if any fighter that pulls out of a mandated fight with anything less than a genuine injury is frozen out of the domestic title picture.

Would be grossly unfair to punish all fighters who happen to share the same manager.

 

I won't say it isn't an issue but I really don't see it as a big issue in the UK right now. Fury-price is the obvious exception but Price-Sexton is happening on Sky, we almost had Burns-Crolla and Groves-Anderson on Boxnation, we just had Matchroom and Hatton co-promote for Brook-Hatton, at least technically Bellew is fighting on Sky rather than BN.

Most British fighters could fight on another channel if that was the best fight

I definitely would like Sky to throw their weight around more and make things happen but the situation is so much healthier than 8-10 years ago where no one fought each other

 

Hatton wasn't signed with Hatton.