Comments Thread For: WBC Eyes Cash Bonus For World Title Winners

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The World Boxing Council is formulating a plan to get one step ahead of the other sanctioning bodies. They are looking at the idea of putting together a protocol where the winners of championship bouts will receive a ten percent cash bonus. [Click Here To Read More]

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I like this, but how are they going to fund it with the highly paid fighters?

[dwighttsharpe]

Easy, just don't give it to highly paid fighters.

Like say, only for fighters making 500K or less.

Or, the bonus only applies to up to the first $500K of the fighter's purse.

[MDPopescu]

Do I miss something? Who is going to pay this 10% bonus?
... As I know, WBC gets a percentage from the fighters' purses in order to sanction the title fights ...

[Eff Pandas]

LOL I don't see how thats happening. Who's paying the extra $3M to $25M for guys like Manny & Floyd when they win?

I've thought for a long time it'd be cool to have a winners & losers purse in general for a fight & than later like it'd be cool to have a winners & losers purse that takes into account your asses in seats status like the UFC does, but the problem with boxing is too many people in power positions absolutely hate change & are slow to make any movement with change that they don't **** on 5 minutes in.

For example, open scoring. There should be open scoring. The fighters should know where they stand & if a fight is being judged fairly most of the audience usually knows where it stands already, but somehow there has been false starts with open scoring for the last several decades & we are still in a "surprise you lost mfer!!!" boxing era.