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Vaguely realistic suggestions only please. Here are mine.
I love Boxing, but if you were to characterise the sport as a man, you'd have to say he'd let himself go. While the general public will still pay to see big stars and big fights, they do not care for the sport generally because they are confused by it - frankly I don't blame them. Here is my three step plan to slim down Boxing back into fighting shape:
1. Eradicate the sanctioning bodies and reset the organisational aspect of the sport as one world-recognised association in the same vein as FIFA for football/soccer or the ATP for men's Tennis. I'm not sure how this could be done, but perhaps international courts could be petitioned for the sake of the sport. It has been done in other sports, so it can be done with Boxing. Boxing needs to be a little totalitarian in that respect. The general public are confused by the multiple organisations and 'world titles'. Boxing needs ne belt for each division, with mandatories that actually mean something. Hype-job fighters hiding with an alphabet belt milking money while avoiding the best fighters would be a thing of the past, because the status of being a World champion is what brings in the big bucks they dine on. If you can't promote a fight as being a World title fight, you simply won't see that kind of revenue. We'd soon see hype-jobs actually take a shot at the best.
2. Eradicate the following divisions: cruiserweight, super middleweight, light middleweight, light welterweight, super featherweight, super bantamweight, super flyweight and light flyweight. Having that many divisions confuses the general public and gives a place for fighters to hide from other dangerous fighters, all the while claiming to be a world champion. While we'd be robbed of multiple multiple-division champions, at least fighters would have to face the best of their size in order to claim world championship status.
Side Note: the light heavyweight division would be renamed something else to avoid confusion after the culling of the other 'light' divisions.
3. Revert amateur boxing back to how it was. It doesn't resemble the real thing right now and the public can't get excited by it. I'm fine with the headgear and the big gloves, but please take away that ****** scoring system and make fights into fights. The amateur ranks used to be the training ground of the greats and was very handy for promotion of the sport - it should be that way again.
Anyone else got any suggestions? Or, do you like it the way it is?
I love Boxing, but if you were to characterise the sport as a man, you'd have to say he'd let himself go. While the general public will still pay to see big stars and big fights, they do not care for the sport generally because they are confused by it - frankly I don't blame them. Here is my three step plan to slim down Boxing back into fighting shape:
1. Eradicate the sanctioning bodies and reset the organisational aspect of the sport as one world-recognised association in the same vein as FIFA for football/soccer or the ATP for men's Tennis. I'm not sure how this could be done, but perhaps international courts could be petitioned for the sake of the sport. It has been done in other sports, so it can be done with Boxing. Boxing needs to be a little totalitarian in that respect. The general public are confused by the multiple organisations and 'world titles'. Boxing needs ne belt for each division, with mandatories that actually mean something. Hype-job fighters hiding with an alphabet belt milking money while avoiding the best fighters would be a thing of the past, because the status of being a World champion is what brings in the big bucks they dine on. If you can't promote a fight as being a World title fight, you simply won't see that kind of revenue. We'd soon see hype-jobs actually take a shot at the best.
2. Eradicate the following divisions: cruiserweight, super middleweight, light middleweight, light welterweight, super featherweight, super bantamweight, super flyweight and light flyweight. Having that many divisions confuses the general public and gives a place for fighters to hide from other dangerous fighters, all the while claiming to be a world champion. While we'd be robbed of multiple multiple-division champions, at least fighters would have to face the best of their size in order to claim world championship status.
Side Note: the light heavyweight division would be renamed something else to avoid confusion after the culling of the other 'light' divisions.
3. Revert amateur boxing back to how it was. It doesn't resemble the real thing right now and the public can't get excited by it. I'm fine with the headgear and the big gloves, but please take away that ****** scoring system and make fights into fights. The amateur ranks used to be the training ground of the greats and was very handy for promotion of the sport - it should be that way again.
Anyone else got any suggestions? Or, do you like it the way it is?
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