Comments Thread For: New Ali Act's one belt per weight class plan answers one of boxing's ills

[-Kev-]

4 belts per weight class is still 3 too many. It still leads to fighters picking and choosing who they fight. Especially one’s with a bigger name.

[Hustle]

whatever system is in place it needs to stop someone like canelo holding up an entire division if he wont fight the best guy or guys people like him are pandered too too much and that cant change with people like the wbc doing the pandering the wba are hopeless as well and they are the so called top belts so what hope is there i dont see any

having 1 champ would be better overall i would say, the camp can say im the champ instead of lots of mini champs all claiming people are avoiding them well if there is one champ hes the only one that can claim that and have being the champ giving some cash benefits as well make it very prestigious to get the top guy status and u have to fight the top guys to do it like ufc do that so boxers will have more loses on their records but who cares they all lose evetntally anyway when they stop ducking each other good boxers lose fights to different styles who they avoid if they can

1 champion means guys wont ever get a title shot at any point in there careers. The line is to long

[gauze]

doesn't the muhammad ali act only apply to boxing in the US? these organizations can still have a bunch of champions in every other country, no?

[El_Mero]

Did I read it wrong or are there still going to be 4 belts? How I read it is only 1 belt per org, barring injury, sickness or said champ not wanting to fight

[paulf]

That is never going to happen. Too many promoters have their grasps on some of the sanctioning bodies who also plays favoritism and bend the rules for star fighters.

It would be great if it happened and the word contender will have meaning again.

Look around - the big time promoters no longer exist. They definitely aren't influencing anyone to do anything, anymore. HBO is gone, Showtime is gone, Top Rank and PBC have no TV deals. Don King and Lou DiBella are pretty much out of the game, Haymon has a foot out the door, Gary Shaw is long gone, Oscar is just going through the motions.

The only one with any money or influence is Turki.

This is not some act to make boxing more honest, by the way - it's just a plan to establish a legal path to a defacto "major league" in boxing in America (Zuffa), and put another nail in the coffin of the rest of the promoters.

[STREET CLEANER]

Look around - the big time promoters no longer exist. They definitely aren't influencing anyone to do anything, anymore. HBO is gone, Showtime is gone, Top Rank and PBC have no TV deals. Don King and Lou DiBella are pretty much out of the game, Haymon has a foot out the door, Gary Shaw is long gone, Oscar is just going through the motions.

The only one with any money or influence is Turki.

This is not some act to make boxing more honest, by the way - it's just a plan to establish a legal path to a defacto "major league" in boxing in America (Zuffa), and put another nail in the coffin of the rest of the promoters.

I dislike promoters but they are a necessary evil. I rather do have one champ per weight but these sanctioning bodies are a business and it will be very hard to get rid of them unless they are in on the one belt process.