Proposed new boxing record system...

[Fox McCloud]

I'm tired of people like Chavez Jr. having 38-0 records against no ones, and the casual fan thinking how much better he probably is than a Zab Judah who is 35-5...

How about this? They only introduce you by the record of what kind of fight you are fighting.

If you are in a championship fight, the record they introduce you with is your record in championship fights.

Daniel Ponce de Leon 8-1 (or whatever, didn't look it up)
Juan Manuel Lopez 0-0

If you are in a nonchampionship fight, you can have your nonchampionship record or whatever, but they should be separate.

Thoughts?

[alonsomosely]

What about just having classes in boxing as they have in so many sports

Like top fighters are class A
bottom is F so on

And it would be limited who can fight who
Clearly a Class A fighter wont be able to fight a class F guy

You would need to collect points etc

great amateur carrier would give a jump start, so on

What about that?

[ANDROID_DOES]

I'm tired of people like Chavez Jr. having 38-0 records against no ones, and the casual fan thinking how much better he probably is than a Zab Judah who is 35-5...

How about this? They only introduce you by the record of what kind of fight you are fighting.

If you are in a championship fight, the record they introduce you with is your record in championship fights.

Daniel Ponce de Leon 8-1 (or whatever, didn't look it up)
Juan Manuel Lopez 0-0

If you are in a nonchampionship fight, you can have your nonchampionship record or whatever, but they should be separate.

Thoughts?

why would we change things for a guy that thinks jr is better than zab based on record alone

[AntonTheMeh]

its a good idea.but if they're gonna introduce a fighter with 0 champ fights i think they'll have to anounce his reg record.

[rizkybizness]

Might as well mention how many casualities are attributed to watching a typical Winky Wright fight.

[Fox McCloud]

What about just having classes in boxing as they have in so many sports

Like top fighters are class A
bottom is F so on

And it would be limited who can fight who
Clearly a Class A fighter wont be able to fight a class F guy

You would need to collect points etc

great amateur carrier would give a jump start, so on

What about that?

THAT is a good idea. No one should/would sanction anything more than a jump between one weight class for a fight.

I'd say top 5 is A.

6-15 is B.

16-30 is C.

31-50 is D.

51-Whatever is F.

why would we change things for a guy that thinks jr is better than zab based on record alone

I'm just saying that it is misleading. I mean, really, there is a guy from Brazil who fought like 3 fighters with winning records and he retired 47-0... Seems ridiculous that he has a Marciano like record... but never got anywhere near to a title.

its a good idea.but if they're gonna introduce a fighter with 0 champ fights i think they'll have to anounce his reg record.

Blah, gotta make sure people know that he has never fought a championship fight though. Otherwise it will be 38-0 against like 10-1, even though 10-1 is the defending champ and likely the better fighter.

Might as well mention how many casualities are attributed to watching a typical Winky Wright fight.

Literally have 0 idea what that means.