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Multiple tournaments model
For many years now, I've seen and hear things like this all the time all over the forums, videos and articles:
I don't get this, and it works in different ways: he has won the right to fight whomever, or this boxer hasn't earn the chance to fight that guy, he is not worthy, and so on. Well, think about it for a minute and apply it to other sports, either team or individual:
"Yeah, lets skip the superbowl, just give them the Vince Lombardi Trophy, they have played very well during the season."
"He won Wimbledon last year, let him skip all not worthy opponents and go straight to the final match."
It sound ridiculous right? Because it is, I think boxing would gain a lot if a similar model is applied to it. Is Ward considered one of the best P4P because of his somewhat boring style? No, basically because he has won several tournaments like amateur championships, Olympics and the Super Six. This tournaments has forced him to fight great opposition in a short period of time with no tune ups, duckings and excuses.
In a multiple tournament scenario, boxers would sign up to different tournaments they like or the more renown ones, so imagine each organization had a single tournament like (random) WBC -> Davis Cup, WBO -> Wimbledon, WBA -> French Open, IBF -> US Open. Then these organizations would have to raise the quality of judges, referees, anti-doping, venues, facilities to be more attractive to boxers and also to the public, bad tournaments will not get popular and good tournaments will get more renown as times passes. You can even throw a Grand Slam belt for the winner of a group of tournaments.
For boxers to be ranked, they would have to play in sanctioned tournaments and if a boxer wants to duck someone, he would have to skip the entire tournament lowering his rank. Also starting and lowered rank opponents would get equal chance and opportunities to win a belt, and we would get rid of those held hostages belts because of worthiness and diva whims.
Of course there are also downsides and some things to work out, but I think a business model like this would be better for the sport. What do you think about this?
I don't get this, and it works in different ways: he has won the right to fight whomever, or this boxer hasn't earn the chance to fight that guy, he is not worthy, and so on. Well, think about it for a minute and apply it to other sports, either team or individual:
"Yeah, lets skip the superbowl, just give them the Vince Lombardi Trophy, they have played very well during the season."
"He won Wimbledon last year, let him skip all not worthy opponents and go straight to the final match."
It sound ridiculous right? Because it is, I think boxing would gain a lot if a similar model is applied to it. Is Ward considered one of the best P4P because of his somewhat boring style? No, basically because he has won several tournaments like amateur championships, Olympics and the Super Six. This tournaments has forced him to fight great opposition in a short period of time with no tune ups, duckings and excuses.
In a multiple tournament scenario, boxers would sign up to different tournaments they like or the more renown ones, so imagine each organization had a single tournament like (random) WBC -> Davis Cup, WBO -> Wimbledon, WBA -> French Open, IBF -> US Open. Then these organizations would have to raise the quality of judges, referees, anti-doping, venues, facilities to be more attractive to boxers and also to the public, bad tournaments will not get popular and good tournaments will get more renown as times passes. You can even throw a Grand Slam belt for the winner of a group of tournaments.
For boxers to be ranked, they would have to play in sanctioned tournaments and if a boxer wants to duck someone, he would have to skip the entire tournament lowering his rank. Also starting and lowered rank opponents would get equal chance and opportunities to win a belt, and we would get rid of those held hostages belts because of worthiness and diva whims.
Of course there are also downsides and some things to work out, but I think a business model like this would be better for the sport. What do you think about this?
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