UFC bought out Strikeforce, Pride, World Extreme Cagefighting, World Fighting Alliance, International Fight League and a host of other organisations. Now they have a monopoly and worth around $7 billion dollars. The UFC is easy to understand and know the exact rankings and champions. I would suggest Mauricio Sulaimán (Presiddent of the WBC) buy out the other governing bodies and create a monopoly. This is exactly what UFC did. At least, there would only be 1 champion per weight division and it would make boxing much more easier to understand for the casual fans (who are the overwhelming majority). If by some law that would make it illegal for 1 body to buy another, then Sulaimán should just politely ask a "secret friend" to buy it and later quietly dissolve it (wink wink). WBC is just an example, as long as 1 body can buy the rest, we are all winners.
And how much money would that cost?? The only way for this to happen would be to set up a new independent body and all promoters join force to declare the body as the only one they will work with. The big issue is the promoters have the orgs in their pockets. WBC and haymon/golden boy, WBO and arum/warren. I always thought it would be interesting if boxrec entered the market as an org similar to The Ring. Yes it has its flaws but it has a clear ranking system and all the promoters in the world use it. So it has some kind of foothold in the industry.
It could be a lot, nevertheless after a buy-out of all the competition you are almost guaranteed to recoup it fast enough to not have many regrets. It would also open up additional revenue streams. Look at the deal the UFC has with Reebox amongst other sweet pickings.
You are talking more about the promoter buying an organisation. A governing body wouldn’t have a status over fighter sponsorship or could they set up an outfit sponsor for every boxer worldwide. Boxers would just tell them to go swivel.
Senator John McCain tried to bring it about it, but too many elements lose their advantage, thus the many belts proving the level of difficulty. Decades ago the NBA belt /org was meant to do that. They failed.
I worked with John McCain on this. We are still in business but everyone is pretty much against us mainly because we tell the truth, promoters want to tell the world the opponent is as highly ranked as possible. ranked 4 by the WBO sounds much better than ranked 71 by the independent premier boxing organisation. www.premierboxingorganisation.com
We've established this; you choose which decisions to recognize based on your own personal scorecard. That too is quite obviously flawed.
That is a stupid statement. Every result which is over turned has an asterisk for clarity, there are not many and they are fights where 75% of press thought that the judges calls were wrong or the fight was won on an obvious injury.
You spam your website on this forum for years repeatedly claiming it the most superior rating system. Your rating system literally picks and chooses when to recognize certain outcomes. That's all I have said. Why you would take offense, I'm not sure.
The rating system is the most superior and has been since 1993. It does not pick and choose when to recognize certain outcomes at all as you quoted.