What would it take for boxing to be owned by one promoter, like UFC?

[thebowtod]

UFC doesn't own all of MMA of course, but they own a massive majority of the fighters, and the best MMA fighters in the world.

What would it take for boxing to be under one promoter? A billionaire that buys all the big promoters and sanctioning bodies? All promoters coming together and starting their own promotion? What would it take, or be the most logical way to do it?

[damit305]

[SlySlickSmooth]

I don't see it as plausible. Boxing will remain the way it is. A Capitalist society.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

give Haymon a couple more years

[damit305]

I don't see it as plausible. Boxing will remain the way it is. A Capitalist society.

[Holy Hatred]

Richard Schaefer needs to leave GBP. Boxing is no place for a banker.

[Da Machine]

So Americans will never fight boxers from foreign orgs. No GGG, No Froch, No Groves, No Abraham, No Kovalev ETC.

Sorry, but no thanks. Boxings model is fine. Ego's get in the way.

[FrankieClutch]

So Americans will never fight boxers from foreign orgs. No GGG, No Froch, No Groves, No Abraham, No Kovalev ETC.

Sorry, but no thanks. Boxings model is fine. Ego's get in the way.

Agreed. The model itself looks good on paper, but when we have ego driven, greedy people up top of said model, it's terrible smh.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

And what would that change? You do realize Dana White went on for years about super fights. After every major card that bombed Dana would talk up a super fight between guys he had signed.

Guess what? None of them ever happened.

Gsp vs Anderson

Anderson vs Jones

Brock vs Fedor (yes Fedor was signed under zuffa in SF)

Cain vs Jones

Aldo vs Pettis

All those fights are between two different weight classes.. It would be like Floyd fighting serg, or serg fighting kovolev...

UFC at least has all the guys in a weight class fight each other..
Gsp cameback from injury and fought his top 3 contenders in condit, Diaz, Hendricks...
Silva fought everyone at 185
Jones is fighting every top contender at 205
Even lesner fought top guys and didn't cherry pick anyone.. I can only imagine if he was a boxer, he would have the string of bum opponents like wilder has had and get to be proclaimed a top contending heavy... Boxing is a joke

Boxing we get none of that..
Serg is fighting Murray and cotto, not ggg, quillen
Floyd is fighting Maidana, ghost instead of Bradley, manny
Stevenson isn't fighting kovolev..

I don't even see how it's debatable that a single promotion with belts wouldn't be great for boxing...
Only an idiot would think that having four sanctioning bodies with interm, regular, super champs, and various promoters and networks is a good thing..

[thebowtod]

So Americans will never fight boxers from foreign orgs. No GGG, No Froch, No Groves, No Abraham, No Kovalev ETC.

Sorry, but no thanks. Boxings model is fine. Ego's get in the way.

1.egos already get in the way of boxing
2. why wouldn't it be a global brand? Doesn't stop NBA from getting players from europe. Im not even sure why you would think they couldn't get fighters from other countries
3. Boxing isn't dying, it is stagnant, and has been stagnant for years. its not fine, it's constantly talked about in negative light saying its not as big as it used to be and thats 100% right, it really isn't.