Awesome !!! New Heavyweight Tournament set for June 2006

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"Is that you Tyson?"

who knows if this is going to happen or not, but one good thing to point out is this.. normally boxers train for periods of time with certain techniques, certain sparring partners, and certain gameplans all fitted around a certain opponent that they are going to face. If this happens, they won't be able to prepare for all the competition; therefore, it will be a good measure of which boxer is the best overall in many ways.

Becasue its dumb for so called fans to think that the best HWs should be fighting 4 rounders, it would be bad for the sport and I'm against anybody that hurts or believes in things that hurt the sport. If your so bored than stop watching, you obviosuly aren't watching for the sport your wathcing for the KO, thats not a real fan. I'm all 4 (pun intended) the best HWs fighting each other but I think they should fight the normal 12 rounds. I mean the 11th and 12th rounds are called the "championship rounds." 4 rounders just don't cut it, unless your Butterbean. Speaking of which, you should get his career on DVD, than you wouldn't have to watch anymore boring boxing. :rolleyes: What a dull ass, dogmatic response. :D

Butterbean fights 4 rounders where he knocks his opponents out. Pleae don't tell me that most HW fights go only 4 rounds, if you believe that then you are ignorant. Lets have a look st some recent HW bouts. Peter-Klitschko 12 rounds Guinn-Toney 12 rounds Ibragimov-Whitaker 7 rounds Chris Byrd-Williamson 12 rounds John Ruiz-Valuev 12 rounds Harrison-Williams 12 rounds Do I need to list anymore? If you think elite level fighters, are supposed to fight 4 rounders than you are an ignorant fool. Shoot, why see epic pitched battles, or brilliant tactical matches, when we can have Butterbean style 4 rounders. :rolleyes: If the KO comes, it will come, 4 rounders will not make it come any sooner. Plus boxing ain't about the KO, its about beating thwe otehr guy KO or no. I wish all of the above fights, except for Ibragimov-Whitaker and Sam-Wlad, lasted no more than 4 rounds. The reason is that they were boring to death. Look, I am not suggesting that boxing should become a 4 round sport, but I do like the idea of having a "World Cup" for boxing, where best boxers compete in an Olympic system to determine the best. Now why the heck are you namecalling and insulting me? Have I done the same to you?

It's four rounds though. That's just silly. I'm a firm believer that we should return to fifteen rounds so to me a four round fight is just pititful. I would barely take the results seriously. I agree that they should go back to 15 round fights. Then again, most of the guys would be KO'ed by then because they'd be too tired.

How could you call yourself a true fight fan? You wanna see a circus like this? Worse you wanna see the top HWs fight in 4 rounders? WHY??!! I don't think any top fighters would wanna participate in 4 rounders, they have to much respect. So basically you wanna see Butterbean style fights, thats not real boxing. Many, if not most, fights at HWs do not last even 4 rounds, so what's the big deal? What does this have to do with Butterbean?

Your missing the point, I'm not denying the fact that this could be real, I'm not disputing that, although it sounds like this author has no solid sources, and I seriously doubt that this will take place. I'm disputing that a 4 round HW tournament composed of supposedly elite fighters is supposed to be taken seriously. That to me is a joke. Do you see what I'm saying? Even if this is real, its a joke, because as I said, real professionals do not participate in garbage like this. I disagree, I would love to see a bunch of 4-rounders with best HWs in them. I hope at least some top HWs will participate.

Dude, don't you see this is a joke, a farce? Its an event that is disgraceful to the sport, and its desgined to take advantage of naive fans. Fighters who are world-class DO NOT participate in 4 rounders, period, end of story. Secondsout.com is a serious boxing site, so I doubt that this is a joke.

If there is serious prize on the table, there will be serious contenders. Also, the finalists would have to fight 12 or more very intense rounds within one or two days, which will require serious stamina.

Yeah, Tony Tubbs won a tournament like this back in December of 93. TBiggs, JRibalta & Bonecrusher Smith were the other 'names' involved.

Any heavyweight worth watching would never sign up for an event like this.so thats noone then? ALL aboard!!

New Heavyweight Tournament set for June 2006 By Paul Upham: Plans for a new style heavyweight boxing tournament are well advanced with a major promotion set for June. The one night knockout tournament is being billed as a once a year extravaganza designed to take exciting boxing back to the fans in a slick entertainment package. The promoters involved are not only intent on featuring the biggest and best names in boxing at heavyweight from around the world, but are also investigating the interest of the world's best light heavyweights and cruiserweights. Prize money for the competitors is anticipated to be well over US $15 million. A document obtained by SecondsOut claims that the tournament, "will have more action, more intensity, and more champions on one card and on one night than in the history of boxing." One of the four major world sanctioning bodies has apparently endorsed the concept with competitors boxing matches of 4 x 3 minute rounds in a knockout style format. Planning for the tournament has been underway for nearly two years. With financial backing now secured, the promoters have been given the green light to begin signing boxers. SecondsOut will continue to follow this story and bring readers more information as it becomes available. Boxing has many troubles and I'm pretty sure this would solve NONE of them. :boxing:

Any heavyweight worth watching would never sign up for an event like this.

didnt they have a show for just this ...you get paid only for how manny hits you land and ko's ...and they even did wrestling promos like one guys girlfriend was cheating on him with his opponent ...

Considering the nature of the supposed matches as four round bouts, I seriously doubt that there would be fifteen million dollars available in the prize pool. The SecondsOut author uses two anonymous citations... "The promoters involved" and "a document obtained," but why would the source want to keep the name of the promoter temporarily a secret if this was true? Having the name out there would create buzz, and there would be absolutely no harm in their names being public. And considering that there is very little information beyond what is, on the surface, a rumor, this is absolutely not yet newsworthy and hence not suitable for publication until there are facts. At best, the author could include a tidbit, a snippet in a column, something like "Rumblings are that there will be a major heavyweight tournament taking place this summer." But this is much ado about nothing.

Didnt Tony Tubbs win some sort of tourney like this about a decade ago that included a bunch of washed up guys? somehow i could see this tourney turning out the same way with a bunch of has beens and never were type guys. There is too much politics involved to get the very best guys in this

It's four rounds though. That's just silly. I'm a firm believer that we should return to fifteen rounds so to me a four round fight is just pititful. I would barely take the results seriously.

Imagine top 16 hws fighting in a cup system, including Brewster, Wlad, Toney, Rahman, Ibragimov, Valuev. These fights can happen in a day or two, which will be very intense and hard on the boxers. I think it is a great idea. I really hope this is not a joke.

Wow please tell me this is a joke. As bad as Rahman, Valuev, etc are it would really suck to see them fighting each other in four round bouts to the backdrop of cheesy "Thunderbox" special effects and childish commentators.