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By Jake Donovan - Win or go home – it’s the driving force behind the NCAA basketball tournament, arguably the greatest postseason platform of any sport.
The beauty of the tournament is that even when your own bracket is busted, you can still kick back and watch the rest of the action, knowing that a national champion will be crowned in the end.
Unfortunately, the same is not always true in boxing, which is why tournaments – even those of the one-off knockout variety – at the pro level don’t quite catch on, despite constant fan request for such a process.
Later this year, the heavyweight division will undergo an unofficial Final Four of sorts. In theory, you couldn’t ask for a better series.
It’s been years since boxing’s big boys have enjoyed any sort of relevance in the sport, a far fall from grace after serving for more than a century as the sport’s glamour division. So anything heavyweight-related that produces positive feedback has to be a good thing.
However, there stands to reason that the series winds up providing short-term entertainment without a payoff in the long run.
Why? For the same reason such little attention is paid to anything heavyweight-related – it’s a two horse race unless retirement or a major upset enters the picture.
Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko will never face one another in the ring, and few see them losing anytime soon – even though their next respective fights will come against the next two best heavyweights in the world, David Haye and Tomasz Adamek. [Click Here To Read More]
The beauty of the tournament is that even when your own bracket is busted, you can still kick back and watch the rest of the action, knowing that a national champion will be crowned in the end.
Unfortunately, the same is not always true in boxing, which is why tournaments – even those of the one-off knockout variety – at the pro level don’t quite catch on, despite constant fan request for such a process.
Later this year, the heavyweight division will undergo an unofficial Final Four of sorts. In theory, you couldn’t ask for a better series.
It’s been years since boxing’s big boys have enjoyed any sort of relevance in the sport, a far fall from grace after serving for more than a century as the sport’s glamour division. So anything heavyweight-related that produces positive feedback has to be a good thing.
However, there stands to reason that the series winds up providing short-term entertainment without a payoff in the long run.
Why? For the same reason such little attention is paid to anything heavyweight-related – it’s a two horse race unless retirement or a major upset enters the picture.
Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko will never face one another in the ring, and few see them losing anytime soon – even though their next respective fights will come against the next two best heavyweights in the world, David Haye and Tomasz Adamek. [Click Here To Read More]
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