Once upon a time, there was one champ per division. Today, it's watered down with a lot of pretenders to various thrones. It's all become a promoter's money making scam. Additionally, 12 rounds is no true test of championship material. One just has to review the Sugar Ray/Hearns/Duran & Hagler fights....or the Ali/Frazier fights...to gain the meaning of guts & determination.
Bring back 15 rounds!! Bring back one champ per division!!
Most of today's fighters lack endurance!
Winky Wright is undisputed at junior middle, right?
Kassim Ouma just beat Verno Philips on the Wlad/Williamson undercard to claim the IBF belt that Winky would be holding if he were undisputed.
Bernard is actually "totally" undisputed because the WBO hasn't stripped him yet of the belt he won from DLH. He already had the other 3 (or other 2 - he is the WBA "Super Champ". Maselino Masoe has the WBA belt)
Wright is going to be stripped of one of the belts (forgot which one) because he is rematching Mosley instead of fighting the mandatory.
To my knowledge Hopkins is the only unified champion in all of the weight classes . . . ..is that right??
na it was shortened to fit better on network tv. they just used fighters health as an exscuse so fight fans wouldn't protest. i think it does help fighters health though, and because they used the fighters as an exscues they cant bring 15 rounds back without looking like monster, even though fights are mostly on cable now.
Yeah I remember someone telling me that the reason for shortening the fights was for the networks more than the fighters health.
one champ per division=less money floating around for the greedy fucks that run boxing, which would hurt. belts=attention, which=consumer interest. 15 rounds=not popular due to boring fights having to go the distance(2 words=John Ruiz), also there would be an additional health worry with fighters going 15, isnt that why they shortened it to 12? im not sure.boxing is digging itself out of its deep, deep hole little by little. whether it makes it back to the glory days is unlikely, but i'll be damned if i dont watch.
na it was shortened to fit better on network tv. they just used fighters health as an exscuse so fight fans wouldn't protest. i think it does help fighters health though, and because they used the fighters as an exscues they cant bring 15 rounds back without looking like monster, even though fights are mostly on cable now.
There are too many ways of ducking a mandatory challenger.
If the best fought the best, boxing would be perfect.
Most mandatory challengers are NOT THE BEST challengers....
Once upon a time, there was one champ per division. Today, it's watered down with a lot of pretenders to various thrones. It's all become a promoter's money making scam. Additionally, 12 rounds is no true test of championship material. One just has to review the Sugar Ray/Hearns/Duran & Hagler fights....or the Ali/Frazier fights...to gain the meaning of guts & determination.
Bring back 15 rounds!! Bring back one champ per division!!
Most of today's fighters lack endurance!
one champ per division=less money floating around for the greedy fucks that run boxing, which would hurt. belts=attention, which=consumer interest. 15 rounds=not popular due to boring fights having to go the distance(2 words=John Ruiz), also there would be an additional health worry with fighters going 15, isnt that why they shortened it to 12? im not sure.boxing is digging itself out of its deep, deep hole little by little. whether it makes it back to the glory days is unlikely, but i'll be damned if i dont watch.