We should have a tourny in all weight classes...

just like they are doing with the 168lb division. After the tournys have completed the winner should be named THEE champ of that division and the various ABC belts shouldn't be used anymore. Thats just my opinion. This way all the top fighters of every division fight in this type of tourny (including all title holders) and in the end a single champ will be crowned and all other belts should be erased from boxing. having 4 title holders per division (sometimes less...like in terms of the lightweights; etc) brings lots of confusion to casual fans and even to general boxing fans. we always complain about not having a singular champion in each division well with tournys like this one at 168 it provides the perfect chance to do so. Whats the point of this tourny if at the end one person holds all the ABC titles? over time they will be taken from them (either through losses, vacancy, or retirement; etc.) and they will be split up again amoung the top 4 fighters of 168. Which would require more tourny's etc. my vote is do this will all the weight classes and create a single champ for each division. that will also get rid of the PPV overload that's been going on in boxing where you have sometimes as many as 3 or so PPV events in a month. why? because there are a ton of champs in each division that make claims to being ppv worthy simply because of a title they hold (whether or not they are THEE champ of the division) and we the boxing fans get suckered (or even sometimes forced) into buying another PPV...usually one that doesnt deliever the $50 worth of action we payed for. i think banning the numerous titles and having one champ for each division will do a lot for the sport and even help it to reclaim its old glory days where selling out a baseball or football arena for a fight wasnt unheard of. if a fight like oscar v. floyd happened in those glory days the hype it would have generated could have easily made it worthy of being held at a ball park and it would have sold out. now-a-days it barely sells out a las vegas arena. and 1 million buys is a rarity. anyone agree?

Comments (5)

having a tournament in all weight divisions is a great idea, yet that is where it ends. it is just an idea and will never get past that. First, you have promoters who have difficulty working with one another, Don King and Arum have worked with one another but the two obviously dislike each other and they have shown it on various occasison and getting them together took miracles. Besides that you have the networks, Fighter A is a showtime fighter and fighter B is an HBO fighter, even if you can get the promoters together it is hard to get them and the networks together too unless their is an unimaginable amount of money involved. Showtime could to the middle tournament because all of the fighters int he tournament are showtime fighters so they didnt have to deal with the other networks. Secondly all of the promoters involved were second and third tier promoters, to add to that some of the promoters promoted more than one fighter so less hands in the pot. if you check the other divisions some of them are ruled by HBO some are ruled by Showtime, Some have a split and some have a different promoter for each fighter making it almost impossible. To top if all off the belt organizations sometimes get fussy and strip belts over mandatories and other reasons. Besides sometimes they dont sanction such events.

16y ago

JR3417

Unify every division but which Alphabet will agree to having their title as the 'ONE'?

16y ago

pcr405

good idea....or just make a tournament for each continent..(for smaller class) e.g. -asia-pacific champion vs. european -n.america vs. asia-pacific (2 from asia since its a big continent or any contender from wbc ranking) -africa vs. s.america winner is a world champion.. Watch it you'll get the race card thrown at you for this.

16y ago

xzworks

16y ago

MANGLER

Every division doin it up would be sweet. Just get the belts unified. Fukk round robin format. Make it an 8 man or 4. Get the belts unified.

16y ago