My Problem With The SMW Tourney...

Taylor has been competitive in his losses. He just needs to work on his stamina.

Shoulda made it an 8 man tourney, and yea, Taylor don't need to be there.

Leaving out the old guys. Their glory days are over. Roy Jones Antonio Tarver Bernard Hopkins Glenn Johnson

Other fighters that could be considered for the 168 tournament, but I didn't feel they necessarily made the cut off of 16. Karoly Balzsay 168 Edison Miranda 168 Zsolt Erdei 175 Adrian Diaconu 175 Jeff Lacy 168

All move down to 168 175 Chad Dawson Jean Pascal Tavoris Cloud 168 Carl Froch Mikkel Kessler Andre Ward Andre Dirrell Arthur Abraham Jermain Taylor Allan Green Lucian Bute Librado Andrade Sakio Bika All move up to 168 160 Kelly Pavlik Felix Sturm Paul Williams A 16 man tournament for 168 supremacy. Double elimination with a loser's bracket. Seeds will be drawn lottery style. I know this would take forever, but it would be great for boxing. Winner retires as the man because he has nothing more to prove. Winner also gets a 20 million dollar payday. What do you guys think? Yeah it would never happen, but I had a little extra time. You can't get it perfect like my post above. Now after saying that I think the people at Showtime who put this together did a terrific job. You will not here me complain about the most exciting thing to happen to boxing in a long time.

I agree that there's still Bika, Bute, Andrade and Balszay out there, maybe an 8 fighter single elimination, but i wouldn't go as quickly as 2 months, at least 4 or 5 would have them well rested and ready for the next fight, if i could i would take out Dirrel and Taylor, and add these four.

A World title belt > a prospect who's fought tomato cans and has a 0. Who are you refering to in the second bit?

This tourney is a boxing fans dream come true. I am crazy excited for it.

I also have a huge problem with Jermain Taylor being in this tourney. He just lost to Froch. Co sign with the Taylor ting..

Just found out about this tourney about an hour ago due to not being on the scene Anyway! Sounds good but aint read up on it to much yet...

Maybe you'll get lucky and the showtime people will see your incredible original idea which none of them could have ever tought of and change the whole tournament to your exact specifications. As a matter of fact we should make you the CEO of the whole sport of boxing so you can show these people how boxing needs to be run. Because as we all know in the internet even a retard like yourself can show how brilliant he really is and that he is just pretending to be a loser to hide his true genius. This is a step in the right direction if you don't see it as such then you are just retarded. This tournament is perfect and I thank the people at showtime for taking the extra steps to make this a tournament to be remembered. Nice...resort to calling someone you will never meet in your life "retarded". Real classy! You have a huge problem with reading comprehension don't you? I have said in this thread that I applaud Showtime for putting this together and I think it is great for the sport. Can you read? Are you lazy? There is a disconnect here.

Green and Bute should have been in this tournament.

I'm guessing a certain Mr G. Leon priced Green out even if he were approached. Besides the two olympians and their 0's adds more weight..

I hear what you are saying not in our lifetimes. I was just bored and needed something to do. It would be super cool though I must admit.

This would be excellent in a perfect world.. but nowhere else, and certainly not on this Earth. I hear what you are saying not in our lifetimes. I was just bored and needed something to do.

Yeah it woulda been nice if they coulda added Andrade and Green (assuming Bute don't want none) and then just gone straight into an elimation style tourney, with seeding and such but this is too good an event to pick apart really. let's just be grateful and hope all goes according to plan

All move down to 168 175 Chad Dawson Jean Pascal Tavoris Cloud 168 Carl Froch Mikkel Kessler Andre Ward Andre Dirrell Arthur Abraham Jermain Taylor Allan Green Lucian Bute Librado Andrade Sakio Bika All move up to 168 160 Kelly Pavlik Felix Sturm Paul Williams A 16 man tournament for 168 supremacy. Double elimination with a loser's bracket. Seeds will be drawn lottery style. I know this would take forever, but it would be great for boxing. Winner retires as the man because he has nothing more to prove. Winner also gets a 20 million dollar payday. What do you guys think? Yeah it would never happen, but I had a little extra time. This would be excellent in a perfect world.. but nowhere else, and certainly not on this Earth.

i dislike it, but for different reasons. I look at the lower end fighters in the tournament, not froch, abraham or kessler, but the rest, and im thinking 'you could end up with 4 losses on your record by the end of this.' It could destroy the careers of several of these fighters. imagine if Dirrell has a war with Froch in the first fight (not inconceivable, most of froch's fights seem to end up this way) gets beaten and then has to bounce straight into a fight with Taylor or Kessler, loses again. he's gone from undefeated to shot in 2 fights. Plus the obvious problems of sanctioning bodies, the fact that fighters will be ignoring mandatorys and possibly dropping titles all over the place. Im not saying its not a good idea, i think it is, and im very much looking forward to watching it. Im just wondering if everyones thought through all the potential problems This is a very good point. If someone got sparked bad, they are generally entitled to a bounceback/tune-up type bout..

What? No free german broardcast? Thought Sauerland = free tv. Yeah. I was also expecting ARD to broadcast from Germany. I don't know how they'll block the signal but according to this site it'll be PPV for Kessler's fights. The other preliminaries will be on 3puls. http://www.digitalt.tv/nyhed.aspx?ArticleID=2919 The price of 100 $ (500 DKK) is what I've read on danish sites.

All move down to 168 175 Chad Dawson Jean Pascal Tavoris Cloud 168 Carl Froch Mikkel Kessler Andre Ward Andre Dirrell Arthur Abraham Jermain Taylor Allan Green Lucian Bute Librado Andrade Sakio Bika All move up to 168 160 Kelly Pavlik Felix Sturm Paul Williams A 16 man tournament for 168 supremacy. Double elimination with a loser's bracket. Seeds will be drawn lottery style. I know this would take forever, but it would be great for boxing. Winner retires as the man because he has nothing more to prove. Winner also gets a 20 million dollar payday. What do you guys think? Yeah it would never happen, but I had a little extra time.