https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_...vs-carlos-ocampo-headlines-zuffa-boxing-event I have the quotes below and the link above. I am suspicious of Dana White and Zuffa Boxing. I worry that he is just creating a side world title with a limited crowd and will try and pass it off as boxing in total. With Turki controlling Ring Mag and in cahoots with White I worry that those rankings will become contaminated and meaningless. I do like his quotes on matchmaking and undefeated records. I do like the idea of sanctioning bodies being gone. "When I talk about matchmaking, I'm going to have all these up-and-coming guys," White said. "We have this kid named Ocampo, who is a seasoned veteran. His only losses are in title fights -- three title fight losses. He has more knockouts than Callum has fights. Callum, undefeated, 15-0, and it's the main event. Should be a badass boxing event." "I've been talking smack about boxing for a long time, and now it's time for me to put my money where my mouth is," White said. "I'm going to get rid of the sanctioning organizations. The best will fight the best. We're going to sign all the young, up-and-coming guys. "If you break into the top 10, and you're still undefeated, your undefeated record means something. You know what I mean? Everybody's undefeated in boxing because nobody fights anybody, right? Everybody will fight everybody."
This is an existential threat to the sport. If successful boxing will be a sport for rich people and nepo babies where its understood that boxers work for free. Like tennis was before 1968. People should be freaking out. Even if we take Dana and his nefarious plans out of the picture people don't appreciate all the problems that come with a 1 belt system. Even when virtually every top boxer came from one country during the IBC era 1 belt was not enough to filter through all the talent. Quite honestly Dana will do a much worse job running the sport then the mob did. He has a track record and its horrible. Something about Dana and his talking points is they are all recycled from 2005. The UFC is not well run as a sport. While there is something boxing could have learned from the UFC at that time the UFC itself no longer adheres to those lessons and is a legal mob.
I will comprehensively support Dana White and Turki Alashikh. The sanctioning bodies have made a mockery of the sport. Between them, corrupt judging, and promoters, I want the current system to die. White and Turki are going to absolve two of the three largest problems with the sport - tee ball trophies where there's 11 "champions" at any weight AND eliminate all this "other side of street" garbage. We will get the fights we want from fighters who now cant hide behind promotional companies and can't be given fake belts...sign me UP. Full support for Dana and Turki!
At first I felt the same, but then I realized that this will essentially create another belt and fix nothing, it will only make things worse. The UFC roster is the biggest its ever been and there are less than 700 guys with them. It would be cool if this forced the other orgs to get their **** together, but they wont. And honestly, I dont think Dana will be able to make TKO boxing into a big player because they wont be willing to pay big money for the biggest names. Every big name they create will simply leave them. At best they will be a springboard for Riyadh season cards, which would be OK. I do appreciate the fact that they are bringing a big streaming platform into boxing tho, that is a big positive.
Are they? They allow fighters(and their connections) to keep most of the money they generate. While the ABCs try to pick a champs opponents(and thats dumb) the fighter still has the option of vacating belts and moving divisions without having their career torched by a vindictative manchild. What have the ABCs really done wrong besides be annoying and incompetent? Whats the harm they've done? They make stupid rankings and try to force champions to fight specific fighters who've been paying them sanctioning fees? Maybe in 1970 you could clutch your pearls at that but we live in a world full of over the top evil people doing all sorts of horrible stuff. These guys are not evil criminal masterminds. The guys trying to replace them are. When people watch sports some people say things like "if only teachers or firemen made this much". No one has ever said that while watching a UFC event because they don't make money. That is the nightmare that Dana and Turki want to bring into boxing. Its funny how people only care about 9/11 when its time to gaslight dissidents and be racist to random Muslim people who had nothing to do with it. People are cheering for the government who funded 9/11 to save them from what....the big bad Mauricio Sulaiman? Thats the larger mob?
Regular champions, super champions, franchise champions, interim champions, champions-in-recess, imposing mandatories after approving championship matches that have an immediate rematch clause, not actively improving judging process (via their sanctioning powers), blackmailing fighters to versus their mandatory or be stripped. Yeah, this is some mob level garbage. I want ALL of them OUT. Hell the governing bodies are trying to add a FIFTH RECOGNIZED BELT as we speak.
I will break these all down. "Regular champions" This would be a good idea with 1 sanctioning body with 4 its terrible. I don't recognize this belt. I do believe the WBA is required by law to have this one because someone won their lawsuit? "Super champions" Without regular belts theres nothing wrong with the Super Belt its an explanation point on an existing belt holder not a seperate belt. "franchise champions" I honestly forgot what this one is. I don't think they do this anymore? "interim champions" Interim belts have a history going back to 1890. This might shock you but Dana White and the UFC model use interim champions. The UFC has named 23 interim champs since 2003 so about one a year. This is in 8 male weight classes. "champions-in-recess" This idea allows the preservation of lineages. I don't think one has been used that much. "mposing mandatories after approving championship matches that have an immediate rematch clause". I'm not a fan of mandatorys. I think sanctioning bodies mistranslated the power to force the champ to fight a clear number one contender to pick a percentage of the champions opponents at their discretion. But assuming they have the right is a sanctioning body approving a match but not approve the rematch clause illogical? They approved one match not two and in this whole mandatory calendar they set up that makes sense even if I don't agree with the calendar. "not actively improving judging process" Honestly judging in boxing isn't bad. The biggest problem is the even number of rounds. I think there should be 15 rounds with 12 rounds worth of fight time because fights going from 15 to 12 is the genesis of the problem. Judges aren't worse today their jobs got 20% harder. "blackmailing fighters to versus their mandatory or be stripped." 100% agree. "Hell the governing bodies are trying to add a FIFTH RECOGNIZED BELT as we speak." I don't think the IBO will ever get recognition. While the alphabet gang aren't at war with the IBO that doesn't mean they are going to give them major status. For one thing a 5th major body would make the whole mandatory scheme unfeasible and they aren't giving up on it.
And the reason all this happens is for.......FEES. They want to be able to charge Fees. That is all. That is why.
Difference between charging champions fees that are a tiny percentage of their income and fighters not being paid enough to afford a real camp. If this goes through boxing will be a sport of eccentric rich people who'll be buying their golden gloves with their silver spoons.
This content is protected In the comment section Dana White replies to a clip of Mauricio slagging him off: danawhite I'm not saying I'm taking over anything. The Ali act will be in tact, not one word will be changed. Fighters can still fight under that. The WBC, WBA and IBF will still exist and fighters can fight for those titles. I'm just doing something different. Who am i bullying?? I have barely even done any interviews about it. Oscar, Eddie, Frank, Top Rank will all still be doing their thing.
