Comments Thread For: World Boxing Super Series - Schaefer, Sauerland on Board

[Mitchell Kane]

Winners to receive the GREATEST prize in boxing, the Muhammad Ali Trophy. Total Prize Money in Season One: $50 million. KO tournament to kick off in September 2017 featuring two weight classes with 16 boxers, setting up 14 top fights on 14 separate fight nights. Partners from the world of boxing, marketing and broadcasting behind the project.
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[Lester Tutor]

I hope Rigo and Loma meet in the same division...

[John Locke]

Just saw this on twitter, exactly what the sport needs, this is how you make stars

[Bjl12]

Anything that can potentially eliminate this excess sanctioning belts is a good thing.

Pulling for this and PBC to displace WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF. One weight class - one champion.

[Bjl12]

Anything that can potentially eliminate this excess sanctioning belts is a good thing.

Pulling for this and PBC to displace WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF. One weight class - one champion.

[Eastcoast]

I wonder which divisions? Probably won't be 147 or 154, too many divas who'd demand big money up front rather at the end. Has potential, especially if they work with all promoters and get some big names.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Comments Thread For: World Boxing Super Series - Schaefer, Sauerland on Board

Winners to receive the GREATEST prize in boxing, the Muhammad Ali Trophy. Total Prize Money in Season One: $50 million. KO tournament to kick off in September 2017 featuring two weight classes with 16 boxers, setting up 14 top fights on 14 separate fight nights. Partners from the world of boxing, marketing and broadcasting behind the project.
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[Mitchell Kane]

Mike Coppinger
Unlike the Super Six, which was round robin, @WBSuperSeries will be single elimination

Mike Coppinger
But the $50 million in prize money will be paramount. Schaefer estimates winner will come away with $10 million. That's big

Mike Coppinger
Also, there will be reserve fighters ticketed for undercard to protect against injury, fighters withdrawing, etc

Mike Coppinger
All global TV rights already sold for World Boxing Super Series besides U.S. and Scandinavia. stephenEspinoza here from Showtime

[Real King Kong]

Anything that can potentially eliminate this excess sanctioning belts is a good thing.

Pulling for this and PBC to displace WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF. One weight class - one champion.

That only works if the best fighters in the division participate...otherwise it just creates yet another "champion".

[Mitchell Kane]

Boxing gets own version of Champions League: £42m mega prize up for grabs

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/boxing/595226/World-Boxing-Super-Series-September-cash-prize-42m

The introduction of a revolutionary new tournament could be set to change the face of the sport.

The World Boxing Super Series is being lined up to start in September across two weight divisions with the newly created Muhammad Ali trophy also on offer.

Eight boxers will compete in each weight class in a knockout competition a pot of around £21m for each division.

Boxers from the top 15 of the WBO, IBF, WBA and WBC rankings – the sport’s four major governing bodies – will be invited to join the tournament.

The quarter-finals will take place in September and October in venues around the globe.

The semi-finals will then be in January and February 2018 with the division deciders in May.

Swiss promoter Richard Schaefer, who recently started working in the sport again following a hiatus after his acrimonious split with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, has joined forces with German-based Kalle Sauerland to help make this ambitious project a reality.

Comosa AG, described as “a Swiss-registered company with principal owners from the world of marketing (Highlight Event & Entertainment), broadcasting (Modern Times Group) and the world of boxing (Team Sauerland)”, will back the tournament.