Turki and Riyadh Season say "No more runners"

You should win by actually fighting, it’s boxing after all and if you somehow win because the rules say “if you score 1 point and then run away the rest of the round you win the round” it might be time to rewrite the rules.

 

"Don't want to see Tom and Jerry style boxing matches"

"...Fight with heart and pride"

 

By the sounds of it, runners will just not be invited back for another payday. Which a lot of people will agree with, but I'm not sure I like one person ha ing so much influence on the sport.

For example Parker was apparently frozen out after his Zhang performance, and I don't think anyone could say Parker was running there, just implementing a 12 round strategy to win, but he was still actively engaging and on the offensive.

Saying that, boxing has taken money from a lot of people over the years and I think the sport is too big and decentralized for someone like Turki to take it over. Sure he will influence it, but boxing will happily take his money and carry on business as usual.

 

The list of legends who'd have never made it if with those rules is long. It may include Muhammad Ali.

 

Given that these paydays are heavily integrated with the titles we can't really seperate this. You don't get to monopolize a sport then do the whole "this will only effect my events that I pay for".

Parker is a major sanctioning bodys interim champion and that was nominally a world title fight. I was not at all impressed with Parkers performance in that fight but "Freezing him out" because of that shouldn't be an option.

 

This was aimed at Haney loool Haney won't get any more Turki money lol

 

Make rings a certain size for each weight class to be fair for both movers and pressure fighters, and make rings expandable in between fights.

 

Simple way to fix this

Have a points league

KO or TKO - 3 points
UD/SD - 2 points
Draw - 1 point
Loss - points

Whoever loses also loses their place in the rankings

Whoever is on a KO streak rapidly comes up the rankings especially if he is fighting 2 or 3 times a year.......

 

Nah, this is the entertainment business. Floyd had some dreadful fights because he flat out ran from his opponent. But he also had fights that were entertaining, even tho he took a defensive approach.

Haney had no reason to fight the way he did against Ramirez. And Garcia completely shelled up after getting knocked down.

 

As long as Turki isn't enforcing all of his fighters to be nothing but rock-em-sock-em robots then I'm fine with the idea that he's pressuring all of his fighters to fight with more effort to please the crowd. There's a difference between boxing smart to win (hit and don't get hit) and just spoiling a fight by fighting negative (don't get hit at all). A fighter can still be a mover, strategist, and defensive minded as long they're throwing punches with a steady workrate and not just moving around the ring or shelling up where the only intent is to not get hit at all.

 

It seems Turki wants his own brand of boxing, he should get into the wrestling business
Boxing is to hit and not be hit. There ain't no running in boxing. If your opponent is out of reach, cut the ring its that simple
Nice, Turki has alot of money throwing at everybody and his aim is to control boxing, do not give him too much influence
If he's not happy, he should go into chess\boxing. No running there, just sitting on the canvas

 

This is good news for the sport of boxing.

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