Will IBO ever become a major sanctioning body?

This is just wrong. The sanctioning bodies have very little money. Boxers have already shown theyll go where the money is, Saudi Arabia, which is no different from golfers when the Saudis created the LIV golf league and PGA tour tried to stifle their money by threatening golfers, but the golfers ignored the threats and simply went toward the money.

Boxing is an easier landscape to navigate cause there's only like 40-50 boxers you need to recruit and the rest will follow suit. Dana White already uses this singular model in UFC and I anticipate that is why Turki has involved Dana in his boxing business - he wants 1 champ per 1 weight class. He wants better purses (management side "better," so less money for fighters). He has already succeeded in offering bonuses for stoppages...expect that to expand to knockdowns too.

Turki is changing boxing for the better - thank God

 

"and I anticipate that is why Turki has involved Dana in his boxing business - he wants 1 champ per 1 weight class. He wants better purses (management side "better," so less money for fighters). He has already succeeded in offering bonuses for stoppages...expect that to expand to knockdowns too."

This is just bullshido.

The offering bonuses isn't about increasing fighter pay. Its about controlling how fighters fight. And the only way bonuses work as a form of control is if its a substantial percentage of their pay. And thats means the UFC is bringing their slave wages to the "unified boxing organization" that Dana wants to create.

 

No boxing fan has a special place of fondness for the IBO

No profit? More less not enough profit and that's because nobody worth a damn wants to hold on to their belt and chuck sanctioning fees at them

 

Unless they are a heavyweight:
https://boxrec.com/en/title/189/Heavyweight

Golovkin also held the belt for a long ass while. I guess it had something to do with K2.

And for some reason Bivol decided to pick it up from Lyndon Arthur, and still holds it.

 

'Ever' is a long time and in boxing almost anything is possible. So don't totally discount anything.

 

They probably forgot they had it

 

goofy logic

if they are better than the other 4, then they are better than the other 4

 

That's all Dicky Ryan's fault.

Literally nobody gave a **** about the IBO title when Lionel Butler, Danell Nicholson, James Thunder, or Brian Nielsen wore it.

Nielsen made 5 defenses and then was stripped after he got kayoed by Dicky Ryan in a ten round non-title match. The vacant belt was then shoehorned into the Lewis-Holyfield rematch. Lewis held onto it for the rest of his career, and Wlad resurrected it from 3 years' dormancy after Lennox retired and held it for the next twelve.

Because of its association with Lewis' and Klitschko's reigns, it's now a hot commodity among heavyweight titlists growing out their collections - but a) there has never been a point when somebody has been just IBO champ and been considered "the man" of the division, and b) most people can't name a non-heavyweight IBO champ, besides maybe GGG.

Pop quiz: who's the IBO champ at say, 130lb? Exactly, you have no ****ing clue and neither did I without looking it up.