UFC Model - Good or Bad for Boxing?

If they tested every boxer with USADA nobody would be left competing besides Floyd who knows how to use an IV

 

Not a terrible idea at all. What you're suggesting is a central governing body that organizes everything.

Unfortunately, this requires money. This is how the UFC is so popular as it pays very little to fighters and uses the money to build their organisation and promotions.

For boxing, it would require for boxers to be paid little, which I am not for. Boxers get paid a lot, but they deserve the money.
No other sports can display the dangers of boxing. Every fighter risks their lives when stepping through those ropes. Boxers pay should not be cut for a central governing body.

Anyway, it will never work. It's too late as there are too many promoters who will just buy TV time and pay fighters more money. The fighters will fight for the promoters who pay more.

It's a nice idea though, would love that if it didnt effect the fighters pay.

 

one idea would be for all the major orgs to merge into one entity that would govern the 90% of the "sport"...never happening though..

 

The obvious massive pro is the best usually fight the best. But the UFC treat their slaves abhorrently. It makes you sick when you read into it

White and the Fertitta's are among the biggest most greedy scumbags in sport

 

A quick trip to Sherdog shows that these were some of the big fights that never happened in mma. There were a lot more of them, but these were the ones I saw kept coming up the most.

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Randy Couture
Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis
Chael Sonnen vs. Wanderlei Silva
Anderson Silva vs. Matt Hughes
Josh Barnett vs. Fedor Emelianenko
Condit vs Daley
Diaz vs Mayhem
Jones vs Dan Henderson
Brock Lesnar vs. JDS
JDS vs. Alistair Overeem
Anderson Silva vs GSP or Jones
Lytle vs Condit
Cro Cop vs Couture
Sakuraba vs Rickson Gracie
Tito vs Dana
Gus vs Moose
Fedor vs Lesnar
Carlos Condit vs Matt Brown

I'm also seeing a lot of references to canceled events UFC 151, UFC 176, UFC 200 fighters getting injured, getting popped for PED use, etc. In particular, Jon Jones seems to come up for that stuff a lot. As for allegations of outright ducking, I'm seeing:

Tito Ortiz vs Chuck Liddell
Ronda vs Cyborg
Conor ducking FW
Bisping ducking MW top 10
Gus ducking the LHW top 10
Fedor ducking UFC
Anderson Silva vs Lyoto Machida
Woodley vs Wonderboy

I'm seeing a list on sherdog about the great mma fighters who never even competed in the UFC:

Kazuo Misaki
Paulo Filho
Sergei Kharitonov
Igor Vovchanchyn
Ricardo Arona
Megumi Fujii
Ben Askren
Cristiane Justino
Shinya Aoki
Fedor Emelianenko

This raises the specter of a question: How can the best fight the best in the UFC if some of the best never join the UFC? Indeed, it seems like there are many top fighters who fight for rival promotion companies from World Series of Fighting, to Bellator, to One Championship. Their promoters put them under exclusive contracts much like the split between HBO, Showtime, and PBC, which hinders major fights from getting made.

Ben Askren is with One Championship
Will Brooks is with Bellator
Patricio Freire is with Bellator
Cristiane Justino is with Invicta
Justin Gaethje is with World Series of Fighting
Phil Davis is with Bellator
Jake Shields is with World Series of Fighting
Michael Chandler is with Bellator
Marlon Moraes is with World Series of Fighting
Rousimar Palhares is with World Series of Fighting after being kicked out of UFC

This all suggests that the mma world is a lot less unified than we are lead to believe. It further proves that there is a lot more talent outside of the UFC, making it less likely that the best are always fighting the best there, instead of just the best available.

 

If you want to yap about UFC then you should be on an UFC forum.

* Mod, please delete or move this garbage thread.

 

You turn every thread in to trash with your IQ of 85, so NO, your request wont be followed through.

-ESB superintendent

 

It's an American thing. Nobody in Europe cares about UFC let alone has ever heard of it before. Everyone here has heard of Evander Holyfield. Nobody has ever heard of any UFC 'champion'.

 

Time for your meds (PEDS) comrade?

 

At least my ***** size is not 4 inches...... Have fun with that small pecker!!!

 

i think both sports would benefit from contracts no bigger than 3 fights, with single fight contracts being the norm. fight results would be the primary source of promotion and promoters would decide on an individual fight basis, how much they want to spend on promotion to get the return they are looking for. this would end the protected fighter culture, because every promoter will want the best fights possible on that very limited contract. it also puts rival promoters on a very even playing field.
i think boxing and ufc would both benefit from a little cross promotion. lots of ufc fans have learned to appreciate the beauty in strategy and technique from watching mma, and are better prepared to appreciate a top level boxing match. they have seen many times, how superior boxing technique can make all the difference in a close match.

 

UFC is a promotion..............you only want to have 1 promoter in boxing?
That's stupid, that's what make boxing a truly global sport.

 

don't forget Karelin, not a mma guy because the gracies did everything possible to keep him out of early UFC's.

good post bandeedo

 

The way boxing is run is a complte f****. 4 or more world champs per weight class, the best fighters often avoiding each other, BS catchweight fights for a world title (WTF is that BS). Imagine if a UFC champ won a title and defending it demanding his opponent either come up or down to a catchweight. I love watching boxing when the best fight the best but the sport is a complete joke and corrupt to the core.