Comments Thread For: Is TKO freezing out sanctioning bodies from Canelo-Crawford?

[joe strong]

This makes me happy to see them give the finger to the 4 bodies. Suliaman won’t have anyone to give his WBC Desert belt to. I hope they just pull at Rid**** Bowe & dump all the belts in the garbage can during the final press conference…

[Jack_sh*t]

Best news I've read today.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I have pretty good seats and seeing Mauricio getting restrained by security as he tries to storm the ring will be hilarious. I’ll be looking out for him. I will admit, I did meet him at Canelo-GGG 2 and he was actually a very nice guy. Talked complete nonsense when I asked about all these needless WBC belts, but was very approachable and willing to converse with a fan.

[Smash]

"We always do a commemorative belt for May and September"

lol its nearly always the canelo azteca belt disputed by none other than canelo himself

Huichol I Belt -- It was disputed by Saul Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez J
Huichol II Belt It was disputed by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.
Chiapas II Belt saul canelo II
Maya I Belt ginger nut & jacobs
Mestizo Belt ginger & billy hoe
Teotihuacan Belt ginger & plant
Puebla Belt ginger charlo

im sure there are more as well, they throw in the odd non canelo belt as well


what would they call a belt designed for bud instead of canelo?

[STREET CLEANER]

I hope they get completely frozen out. They must be salivating in how much sanctioning fees they would collect from this fight and they won't dare to strip the winner because they will freeze themselves from another lucrative fight.

[Moz_boxing]

They having been mugging fighters for years

they taking 3 percent the UFC takes 90 percent maybe 20 percent of that gets reinvested the rest is in Danas and his powerful friends pockets while UFC stars are begging for a boxing payday.

Dont get me wrong the 4 sanctioning bodys are a disgrace but lets not act like the people that run TKO are some type of saints. They are pretty much the worst and Turki is not different they all got you fooled and in some years you guys will realise.

Turki says the best fights the best but supports and enables one of the worst ducks in Canelo why not freezing this guy out? exactly because he brings money and attention so he is no different than the sanctioning bodies

[Bob]

they taking 3 percent the UFC takes 90 percent maybe 20 percent of that gets reinvested the rest is in Danas and his powerful friends pockets while UFC stars are begging for a boxing payday.

Dont get me wrong the 4 sanctioning bodys are a disgrace but lets not act like the people that run TKO are some type of saints. They are pretty much the worst and Turki is not different they all got you fooled and in some years you guys will realise.

Turki says the best fights the best but supports and enables one of the worst ducks in Canelo why not freezing this guy out? exactly because he brings money and attention so he is no different than the sanctioning bodies

People have to stop talking about the money in the ufc compared to boxing when they're clueless of the actual numbers. Only the boxers at the very top get paid!
The ufc has far more middle class earners than boxing working towards they're shot where as take say Calzaghe he was 21-0 & couldn't afford his rent.
Are Dana & owners balling, absolutely but they deliver. Boxing hasnt delivered for years until Turki started over paying. The ufc has just signed a 7.7 billion paramount deal fod the ufc rights where now even top rank cant make a deal, pbc are non existent on prime.
I personally hope tko get the legislation changed in the states then lets give it 10 years.

[Willow The Wisp]

This could be the start of something big. All licensed promoters should be required by international law to force managers and boxers to refuse WBA, WBC, WBF, WBO, IBF, WBU and IBU title belts, and prohibit them from furnishing sanctioning fees or to mention these for-profit sanctioning body advertisements; at the risk of losing their promotional licenses.
The start, perhaps, of Boxing being run like the International business that it has long been, for the benefit of the sport itself.

[wrecksracer]

Nobody likes the sanctioning bodies, but isn’t TKO just trying to be another sanctioning body? I’m not sure celebrations are in order here

[mjh1969]

I love this. TKO giving all four sanctioning bodies the middle finger. This fight is about respect and seeing who is the better fighter. The sanctioning bodies are: corrupt, cynical and political. Keep all of that out of this fight for a change and let everybody enjoy the fight. No politics or any shady stuff.