Comments Thread For: Zuffa Boxing announces the eight divisions it will recognize

[Coverdale]

Its not like the divisions won't exist anymore so they're just handicaping fighters who would be better off and more competitive in the jr and super divisions.

No one's forced to join. If they want a WBO 'interim' super bantamweight 'world' title they can hand over their hard earned cash.

[Coverdale]

There's nothing wrong with the number of weight classes at all. The dilution is because there are a dozen worthless belts in each one, and Dana is just adding another one to half of them.

Dana isn't even keeping super flyweight, which has been one of the best divisions for the last 20 years. It's nonsense.

Yes there is. Even in the TBRB top ten there's often fewer than 5 elite names and that's due to dilution.

[Spray_resistant]

No one's forced to join. If they want a WBO 'interim' super bantamweight 'world' title they can hand over their hard earned cash.

It would be foolish of fighters to sign with Dana, he is malevolent leech who rips off fighters of their hard earned money. The sanctioning bodies take like a single digit percent of a purse and being a title holder at least gives fighters legitimacy leading to bigger fights.

[real raw]

White is all about pragmatism. Gotta love that about the man.

Pragmatic in not paying the talent

[VislorTurlough]

Looking forward to White driving up his own ass and disappearing

[Boxing 112]

Zuffa Boxing, the upstart promotion that made its official launch in January, has announced the eight divisions in which its fighters will compete.
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Good. Too many weight divisions are not needed.

[steeve steel]

Pragmatic in not paying the talent

More in like not overpaying overhyped divas.

[real raw]

So rather than paying "over hyped divas", white is going to pay his "overhyped" self. Overhyped divas or not, clearly people are payig to see them, so the "divas" should get the lion's share. IMO

[El_Mero]

Its not like the divisions won't exist anymore so they're just handicaping fighters who would be better off and more competitive in the jr and super divisions.

Handicapping? Every "Jr. Division" fighter can still fight, nobody is stopping them.

Now do I like Dana? Fcuk no! And I hope his gimmick entry fails. But this 8 divisions thing is very much howd id like to see boxing, be from now on.

[low blows]

This organization doesn't need sub 118 pound fighters because it's going to concentrate on the American market but if they truly want to be global they will need a 112 pound division. If Zuffa develops a star boxer that wants to fight a junior division champion in a big bout the two fighters could fight in catchweight bout which was quite common at one time in the 8 division era.

Terry Norris fought Meldrick Taylor in one. PEDnelo made up his own division for awhile when he was a 160 pound champion and was ducking GGG.