Comments Thread For: Heads Of WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO Meet In Hopes Of Standardizing Title Unification Bouts Among Other Matters

[Mick Higgs]

Ahhhh they left out of he IBO…….lol

And the IBA/IBC/WBE/WBF/WBU. ECT!. Might as well have the UFC & WWF/WCW there while we're at it!!!.

[b Murphington]

There has to be some sort of unified criteria to follow. One thing I think should happen, is once you are officially ranked, you can only box others who are also officially ranked. Unranked boxers can only box other unranked boxers. Say maybe you need at least 15 professional bouts and a certain winning percentage to be considered ranked. Make it like how in the amateurs, you need 10 bouts to be considered in the open division. You need to try to separate the levels somehow. This will promote better competition.

[CornerCutman]

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[Greenfield02]

There has to be some sort of unified criteria to follow. One thing I think should happen, is once you are officially ranked, you can only box others who are also officially ranked. Unranked boxers can only box other unranked boxers. Say maybe you need at least 15 professional bouts and a certain winning percentage to be considered ranked. Make it like how in the amateurs, you need 10 bouts to be considered in the open division. You need to try to separate the levels somehow. This will promote better competition.

You make no sense. All boxers are ranked, there is highly ranked boxers and low ranked boxers, there's the top 50 and the bottom 50, I think what you were trying to say is as an example, once you are ranked in the top 10 or 15 you have to face fighters in that ranking, which is not a good idea, because someone who is ranked low because of politics would never get a shot. I get your idea, the way it needs to be implemented though is more in the lines of having less titles, once you have a title you must only fight guys in the top 5, unless it's a unification, how about you only allowed 1 volunteering defense, and no more than 2 every 3 years. Now this obviously a raw idea but something along those lines, would be good.

[b Murphington]

You make no sense. All boxers are ranked, there is highly ranked boxers and low ranked boxers, there's the top 50 and the bottom 50, I think what you were trying to say is as an example, once you are ranked in the top 10 or 15 you have to face fighters in that ranking, which is not a good idea, because someone who is ranked low because of politics would never get a shot. I get your idea, the way it needs to be implemented though is more in the lines of having less titles, once you have a title you must only fight guys in the top 5, unless it's a unification, how about you only allowed 1 volunteering defense, and no more than 2 every 3 years. Now this obviously a raw idea but something along those lines, would be good.

I didn’t think the sanctioning bodies would take the time and effort to rank every boxer. That would be so difficult and time consuming to do.

So the no name boxer, fresh off the street who no one has ever heard of, who just had his first bout get ranked by a major sanctioning body? Mind you those are a dime a dozen. The major sanctioning bodies would rank all of those said boxers?

And yes obviously enforce more mandatories for title defenses.

But I also don’t think a guy who is a top ranked in the top 10 should be boxing someone ranked 100 or whatever. Just in principle that doesn’t make sense. It defeats the whole purpose of a ranking system in the first place! Might as well just do away with rankings and have a free for all!

All I’m getting at, is have a separation of classes. Some type of criteria for ranking. This would minimize gross mismatches and promote competitive bouts. The bouts where the clearly better boxer beats up on the obviously lesser boxer happens far too often in this sport and I believe is what turns people away from becoming fans of the sport. It’s really no different from a high school football team going up against an NFL team.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Excluding IBO means nothing will change.

And before people criticize...Usyk is an IBO champion.

[Marchegiano]

Been saying this for years. It's done been time to have unification be part of the process mandated from the bodies. Mandos suck because they take our unis. Champions are unwilling or unable to fight more than two or three times a year which means any 3 belter, like Usyk, is basically always tied to a mando. Solution is simple if the bodies mandate unis with mandorties then there's no conflict of interests and stars can be made.

Who can blame mainstream sports for sidelining boxing when we don't even have real champions anymore? Should have done this **** in the 90s.

[sicko]

Great News! Hopefully they come out with a solution to give fans what they want as well as the fighters

I think guys becoming Champion with 1 sanctioning body and just being completely removed from the rest afterwards needs to be changed. You should 100% be allowed to climb up every ranks and grab the Belts if you so choose

[SUBZER0ED]

Standardization is a step in the right direction. But as another poster suggested, there should be a sanctioning body for the sanctioning bodies and probably even an overseer of that entity, in order to try keep everyone honest and in line.

[b Murphington]

Standardization is a step in the right direction. But as another poster suggested, there should be a sanctioning body for the sanctioning bodies and probably even an overseer of that entity, in order to try keep everyone honest and in line.

Essentially, a commissioner.