Here's some negative elements of the sport - if you could eliminate only one, which one would it be?
Robberies
Bad refereeing
Top Rank vs Golden Boy beef / Promoter wars in general
Performance Enhancing Drugs - PED
Excuses from boxers after defeat
Biased live commentary during fight broadcasts
Ugly ring card girls
Fights being postponed or cancelled
Boxers claiming gods (mythical characters) helped them in fights
Another factor
The multitude of titles.....
One possibly two at the most would be ideal
Titles are becoming increasingly meaningless with so many to choose from so thinning them down to two at max would be a good idea. But there's money in sanctioning bodies so I can't see them reducing in number unless they somehow merged.
MMA is more brutal than boxing. But you won't hear ducking cases there.
What the hell are you talking about? People want money and fame and will do what it takes to get there. You don't think there's ducking in MMA? The only difference in the UFC is that one man (Dana White) plays god and controls who fights who, so he can protect his cash cow and take the heat. And define more brutal. Injuries sustained from boxing are far more brutal than anything that has ever happened in MMA.
Two major factors that affect boxing, and the hw division in particular, is:
Fighters' inactivity
The top fighters not facing one another
The top boxers in the sport all too often fight once or twice a year. How can you stay interested when your favorite fighter is fighting so infrequently? It's like waiting for your birthday or Christmas - it's like it only happens once a year.
Prime example is Tavoris Cloud
I blame Cloud's opponents for his inactivity more than I blame him. Can't help it when people pull out of the fight last minute
Two major factors that affect boxing, and the hw division in particular, is:
Fighters' inactivity
The top fighters not facing one another
The top boxers in the sport all too often fight once or twice a year. How can you stay interested when your favorite fighter is fighting so infrequently? It's like waiting for your birthday or Christmas - it's like it only happens once a year.
Prime example is Tavoris Cloud
Multiple Boxing Federations the abc's of boxing champions!!!! Must Go!
Get ONE federation and have one champ eliminate all "junior" weight classes for championship fights!
This is impossible to do but it sure would improve the sport!!
Oh yeah the "lets get ready to rumble" guy has to GO!!! Ray.
Robberies and bad referring have ruined so many good fights. I'd eliminate one of those, obviously robberies is the most serious thin in boxing so i'd go with that.
The 4 organizations running the belts. If I had to change ONE aspect of boxing, it would be that. One world title
this....
if there was only one belt, everyone that wanted the title would have to fight the best. therefore it would stop cancellation, annoying promotion excuses and other factors. fighters like mayweather would be more active, to stay in contention, otherwise his purses wouldnt be so high
Only one thing id get rid of is the Mayweathers!
Thats why you look so stupid every time you post. Why would anyone want a great fighter to leave and never come back? Youre just a hater of a great fighter that brought so much to the sport ...you hate to admit....but the last three most exciting buzzes in Boxing have been Ali...Tyson...and now Pacquiao.
And TS...His loss want Bad for Boxing. It was a turning point for better things to come. His return will be yet another Wow factor for Boxing.
You hypocritical turd.
Which ONE negative factor would you eliminate from boxing?
Bob Arum, HBO's biased toward their fighters and the WBC/WBO presidents.
Sorry that was more than ONE.
PEDs by far. This isn't a game. If you wanna juice to hit a ball further, run faster, increase stamina(team sports)...I don't care.
But if you are doing it to gain advantage in a fight, you literally have another man's life in your hands. There should be no tolerance, guys getting busted should receive lifetime bans, no question.
I think eventually someone is going to get seriously injured or worse.
voted PED's, because they allow a fighter to do extra damage to another human being, mostly through conditioning. more punches = more damage.
robberies are different animal, but they're equally gross. boxing is the only sport where you can win a fight and still lose.
The 4 organizations running the belts. If I had to change ONE aspect of boxing, it would be that. One world title
I agree but I think doing that would make boxers cheat even more since they're all competing for the same belt. I think they should fix the corrupt judges and fight outcomes would be better. Boxers would have to work harder to get the W. Which could also mean more boxers cheating using PEDs. LOL Either way it's like having to choose the worse of the poisons.