My idea for legitimizing boxing.

A unified body would solve most of boxing's problems. It is the number 1 wish on most fans lists.

 

There is no legitimizing boxing. It's a ******* and we love it that way.

 

Well… I think the rest of the world would see us as even more insular if it was like the nba or nfl. It would need to be international, not national.

It would certainly be good for the sport though, imo

 

You lost me at this point.

 

Completely untrue. Plenty of fights happen between top guys in a division, or in adjacent divisions.

In the next fortnight alone we have an example of the former (Golovkin vs. Proksa) and the latter (Ward vs. Dawson)

If anything, the baseball schedule has more mismatches built in. You gotta figure of the 162 games on the calendar, how many are against top seeds - or even wildcard contenders?

 

I agree. If boxing was a person it would be Leatherface- a ****ed up inbred hillbilly with a cheese doodle for a nose and a pork rind for an ear.

 

Most fans would like a unified body but there's not a single plan the least bit realistic for getting one. Too much money for commissions, promoters, sanctioning bodies, and of course the fighters themselves to ever want to move in that direction.

 

The Nationals are in first place this year so...

 

Did you read the post? There are more mismatches scheduled into the standard baseball season than we see on average in boxing. (at least at the level where it's televised)

Boxing actually has its own system of parity.

Prospects are fed a weak diet until they're ready to step up and stop being prospects, and then for the most part they either sink or swim. In some cases they're protected and guided to an undeserved title and hold it hostage, but let's not act like that's the majority of title reigns in the sport now or at any point. It happens more often than we like but it hasn't ever been the norm...else it wouldn't still be a big scandal when it does happen.