The WBSS has been doing what the fans have been wanting to see for a while. Making an effort to get the best fighting the best and giving us an undisputed champion. Is anyone else in favor of the idea of seeing a mandatory tourney (not necessarily by WBSS), once there are 4+ champions?
If you do it like the WBSS idk if thats true. Start to finish is less than a year. Half of the 8 are out in the first 8 weeks.
But yea I do agree you gotta put in the best 8 guys who want in & not 4 top 10 guys & 4 top 50 guys matched up with those top 10 guys.
Randomly it might not even be a bad idea to not schedule a tournament til like 8 of the top 12 or 15 guys are in it. With maybe 5 of those guys being top 10 guys or something like that. That would ensure its a quality tournament.
I think all you can do to determine who the best are is a consensus of all the rankings like Comosa-sp seems to do.
Great ideas, effpandas. You could get the mandos to each of the belts as the other 4 to 6 competitors and it would be a 8 to ten man tournament with all the mandos theoretically getting their shot at one of the titles regardless of which organization has them ranked as mandatory, (I.e. ibf mandatory getting a shot at the wbo) since the general public knows who should be getting title shots anyways. Kind of like a consensus ruling like youre saying.
This could possibly clear up the whole problem with mandatories having to wait years to get a title shot. Itd even give them the pathway to win more than a title but to become undisputed.
No, in my opinion. I am all for the best fighting the best but I don't care much for most tournaments. They tie up too many boxers and take too long to complete. They give too much power to whoever is running the tournament.Sometimes they put boxers in the tournament who don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning it. That's just a waste of time. The four best boxers in a weight class is enough. Then the whole tournament can be over in three fights. But who decides who the four best boxers are?
Undisputed may not be a good idea, IMO. Can you imagine there being only one champion per division and him only giving a contender a shot at a world title once or maybe twice a year. With how many big names there are now it would just take fighters way too long for title shots and would cause top contenders to be inactive waiting for their opportunity
I think a WBSS tournament (or some other entity) would do well for boxing to have some sorta cycle of putting the 8 best guys who are willing to fight all comers in a tournament together every 4 years like listed below.
Could spread it out longer to maybe 6 years to. Whatever works out best. But it'd be a regular & scheduled period of time when fans could expect a division to be decided for the top guys who wanted to be involved in figuring out a division for career high money.
Year 1: HW, 160, 135, 118
Year 2: 200, 154, 130, 115
Year 3: 175, 147, 126, 112
Year 4: 168, 140, 1f22, 108, 105
*obviously could arrange it anyway to make more sexy divisions more spread out & less sexy divisions combined.
Homie answered so well, I got nothing to add!
The different bodies don't like things like unification tournaments. If one person holds multiple belts they make less money. hence this stupid stuff of regular/super/elevated champs to free up belts when they unify.