My Problem With The SMW Tourney...

[BattlingNelson]

I just found out what I really, really, REALLY hate about this tourney.

All Kessler's fights will be live and PPV for the staggering amount of ........... drumroll please .............. 100$!!!!!!!!!

[Peder]

I just found out what I really, really, REALLY hate about this tourney.

All Kessler's fights will be live and PPV for the staggering amount of ........... drumroll please .............. 100$!!!!!!!!!

What? No free german broardcast?
Thought Sauerland = free tv.

[BMWM3P]

Yeah because the powers that be i.e. showtime, hbo, espn, the promoters have done so much to better boxing over the last 20 years. You are a sucker.

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 ****** 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 ******ed. This tournament is perfect and I thank the people at showtime for taking the extra steps to make this a tournament to be remembered.

[D-MiZe]

I bet the Froch fights will all be PPV.

[shonuff488]

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.

[BattlingNelson]

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.

[DrewWoodside]

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..

[DrewWoodside]

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.

[S.G.]

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

[shonuff488]

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.