If you could reform boxing, how would you do it?

[thuggery]

-1 Champ per division
-1 Sanctioning body
-Less weight classes
-Mandatory activity from champ
-1 legitimate drug testing agency involved in all fights
-Boxing is ran in the same manner as UFC as far as there being ONE major company that deals with ALL fights so you can't cherrypick or hide behind a promoter
-Running, clinching, elbows, forearms users get punished a lot more often

[taansend]

TEN weight divisions. I've had this idea for about 20 years now (sad bastard that I am).

The lightest weight under 50kg & the heaviest over 100kg - with eight divisions in between.

Obviously one champion at each weight but I'd also make a big deal about regional areas. For example you could have USA East, USA West, Mexico & Central America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe etc etc.

This might help build up some healthy rivalries - all while aiming for the World Championship.

[bigsmoothh]

have one unbiased ranking agency and the top 8 in each division fight in a tournament every year. next year tournament starts over with different rising guys or some of the same guys depending on how they did. this will prevent duckers who are ranked #1 from cherry picking easy competition and staying on top. you have to prove yourself every year. anyone who says they can't fight because their opponent lives too far away is immediately kicked out of boxing.

green k sent.........

[GeneralZod]

Just one league
Stripped of title if refusal to face someone without legit. reason.
A public ranking system
drug policy

Drop the unneeded weight classes.

Lightflyweight, superwelter? supermiddle? Superbantam? Why do these even exist?

Keep it as
Heavy
Lightheavy
MiddleWeight
Welterweight
Lightweight
Bantamweight
Featherweight
Flyweight maybe another class

maybe Straw weight just for the name

[The Hammer]

I'd have 2 sanctioning organizations instead of 5 (merge WBC and IBF, and merge WBA, IBO, and WBO).

I'd have 10 weight divisions instead of 17. Something like this:

Flyweight 110
Bantamweight 120
Featherweight 130
Lightweight 140
Welterweight 150
Light middleweight 160
Middleweight 170
Light Heavyweight 180
Heavyweight 200
Super Heavyweight +200

(I'd rename cruiserweight "heavyweight" and rename heavyweight super-heavyweight).

And I'd have same-day weigh-ins.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Eliminate the light/super divisions besides Super Middleweight & Super Featherweight, 1 champion per division, reigning champion must defend against the #1 contender once a year, and back to fight night weigh-ins.

[BUNGALOWS]

I'd have 2 sanctioning organizations instead of 5 (merge WBC and IBF, and merge WBA, IBO, and WBO).

I'd have 10 weight divisions instead of 17. Something like this:

Flyweight 110
Bantamweight 120
Featherweight 130
Lightweight 140
Welterweight 150
Light middleweight 160
Middleweight 170
Light Heavyweight 180
Heavyweight 200
Super Heavyweight +200

(I'd rename cruiserweight "heavyweight" and rename heavyweight super-heavyweight).

And I'd have same-day weigh-ins.

Green K sent.

[fight_professor]

Easy. Return to 8 weight classes. Maybe 9 with a Cruiser weight division. But this jnr/super system would go.

[fight_professor]

And maybe even prior to that, merge the main sanctioning bodies under 1 body - so we can have a proper, undisputed world champion. I like the fact that Ring magazine tries to bring credibility to belts by having a linear champion.

Call it something in French - like FIFA but for boxing. Federation International Le Box or something. (FBLB).

[AntonTheMeh]

no weight divisions. no belts. tag teaming is allowed if the two smaller fighters weigh as much as the bigger guy. the winner gets to bone the losers wife, wives, or girlfriend.