Super Eight Tournament?

Proposals for a boxing tournament.

Super eight.

• Top 8 fighters are not decided by Governing body but by a commission of experts and analysers to decide who the top 8 fighters to participate in the tournament are.
• Top 4 fighters ARE seeds and a rightly recognised as such for being belt-holders and very good.
• Top 4 drawn against unseeded 4
• Knockout format –
• Winners of each fight face each other in semi finals to be fought out on the SAME card! This can mean a huge PPV event, featuring a quality undercard too.
• Winner is the recognised DOMINANT champion of the division – Tournament takes place every 2-3 years. Winner can then either stay in the division or MOVE up or DOWN weights to face another ‘dominant’ champion of the same style tournament held in another division in a super fight that the FANS would want to see.

Small print
• Fights which are drawn are always to be rematches
• Open scorecards to ensure if a fighter is down on the cards he will go out looking for the knockout to be decisive,
• Split decision wins go to an appeal amongst boxing experts to analyse the fight and decide whether a rematch should take place
• A knockout victory is decisive,
• If a fighter wins by DQ it is decisive

 

Lightweight Tournament

Seeds.

1. Juan Manuel Marquez
2. Humberto Soto
3. Robert Guerrero
4. Michael Kasidis

Unseeded

Vicento Escobedo
John Murray
Ali Funeka
Anthony Peterson

(Random draw)

Humberto Soto VS Ali Funeka
Juan Manuel Marquez VS Anthony Peterson
Robert Guerrero VS John Murray
Michael Kasidis VS Vicento Escobedo

Winners of each fight are drawn into a random semi final match up.

 

Good point. I've just thought of the format and how it would work firstly and how it would be quicker at establishing a dominant champion than the Super Six. It's just a thought that got in my head today, it would benefit the better boxers. It would also ensure we the fans get to see exciting fights in the semi-finals either way, either because the higher calibre boxers go through beating those who they're expected to beat according to the seedings. Or an under-dog causes a shock meaning a much less predictable outcome, either way it doesn't freeze any fighters out like the Super Six has frozen out Lucian Bute.

 

It's provided great fights for sure and certainly proven that (apart from Andre Ward so far) that there isn't one dominant fighter within that division, meaning betting has been MUCH tougher on the super-six. But it is long winded it won't be 2 years (perhaps less) until we know who comes out on top in it. This tournament has the time scale of at MOST (depending on whether a fight is drawn) a year, meaning the super-fights can happen faster and a dominant champion is established much quicker.