what would you do to "fix" boxing???

So are you telling us it needs marketing? lol

Marketing marketing marketing! Lobby the local newspapers to start wrtiting articles about the big fights or at least start picking up articles via the associated press. Believe me if some "regular" sport fan was picking up his paper reading about Migual Cotto or Ricky Hatton or Vic Darchinyan they would be tuning in. Most local papers (forget chicago, NY, LA, PA-those are gimme markets) dont cover the sport period, nothing not even a word-Seattle is the 11th biggest makret in the country and when Barerra fights MArquez or Pac Man is in the ring your lucky to see a 15 word paragraph about the fight the morning after-nothing before in the lead up at all!) Marketing marketing marketing! Lobby the local sports radio stations, persuade them to set aside 15 minutes a week to talk boxing...they dont talk boxzing because they curently dont know it. Their listeners would jump off a bridge if they told them too, if experts started going on local sports radio ALL over the country and started saying "watch Miranda vs. Pavlik its a cant miss" and "stay away from Wright v. Hopkins it will be a tactical borefest" then the sport would start to gain momentum. "check out this Miguel Cotto, it is impossible for him to be in a boring fight" say this stuff and poeople will tune in that would have never tuned in before! Education my friends-no one knows who the top fighters in our sport are today thererfore we must educate them and the local sports pages and the local sports radio stations are as grass roots and as influential as it can possibly get! Golden Boy Promotions-if your listening Ive got the perfect road map-Ive actually spoken to them about starting this plan up around the country, this was beofre GBP hired Dibella's boy/VP not that it would have mattered but my impression of GBP is not many of them really have a "NEW" idea on how to change the negative marketing spin the sport has been in. The 2.15 million buys a few weeks ago will probably only inflate their egos and what they percieve their abilities to be in terms of "getting the word" out but promoting a fight like Oscar vs. Floyd was easy-promting the Rafeal MArquez vs. Isreal Vasquez fight is where you start to REALLY change the sport. Promoting the Miranda v. Pavlik fight, the Margarito v. Williams fight...I dont even give a damn if your not the promoter if boxing sells regardless of the combatants your gonna benefit especially if your the air apparent...AKA GBP. Marketing Marketing Marketing!

Have instant replays.. That way the ref cant screw up and make a bad call ie..Mayweather/Judah When theres a knockdown theres a knockdown..

i put the word fix in the Quotes because it's not neccessarily broken, but it is in need of a few tweeks... 1.bring back prize fighting..... the champ get's a guaranteed 1-2 mil., while the challenger get's 500k(roughly). the purse then get's divided 70-30 with the winner taking the larger half. i don't care who's name sells tickets you still have to come to fight if you want to get paid. 2. isolate the judges, place them in seperate rooms away from the crowd and have them watch the fight with little to no volume(that way the crowd has no influence or the judging) ,using monitors all with the same camera angle(s). this allows them to each see the same fight, they could use the same view that they give us at home. 3. they need a scoring system with more guidelines. award points for pressure, defense.....maybe define the difference between light vs. power punches(2 light punches is = to 1 power punch, or something to that effect..just tossing around ideas)... Number 1 sounds good, I don't know about number 2, the best view of a fight is live and it's hard to score a fight on TV. Just have them wear ear plugs or something. I would simply have one champ per division and force fighters to fight the number one contender at least every 6 months.

make every fight a winner take most of the purse... such as 70 winner loser 30 or 80 winner 20 loser or 60 winner 40 loser u katch my drift make a playoff system or tournament (basketball,football,ncaa) where fighters "have" to fight other fighters in order to be champion

1. Allow 8 oz. gloves. 2. Bring back 15 rounds for Unification bouts. 3. Bring back scoring refs. They have the best view. 4. No more, Champs fighting for the most money. Mandatory fights with the next Number 1 contender. 5. Standardized training for all judges. 6. Audits of all judges, ala the NBA, they must be held accountable for their score cards. 7. Day of the fight weigh ins.

Kill Lou Dibella, Don King, Bob Arum, and Frank Warren.

Only PPV fights for important/big fights. I don't think Cotto-Judah should be PPV. Especially when Zab hasn't really earned the shot. Get boxing on more channels than HBO, Showtime, and ESPN. Have more well known fighters on Friday Night Fights/Wednesday Night Fights. I know people who think only washed up guys or nobodies fight other than the weekend. More promotion. BUILD MORE BOXING GYMS. Oh yeah and somebody said before me A WEEKLY BOXING SHOW. ESPN(or ESPN2) COULD FIT IT LIKE MID-DAY SATURDAY SINCE THEY DON'T PLAY SHIT ELSE IMPORTANT ON SATURDAY.

pick the judges the day of the fight, and have them in no contact with the other judges..