Improving Boxing appeal?

[Novecento]

Which ideas would you give to improve Boxing appeal and let people be more interested in this sport?

In my opinion there are too many weight categories (no more sense nowdays as it's easy to gain/lose Kg in controlled way compared to 20 years ago) and too many federations/belts, this can confuse people who doesn't follow boxing often.

I would reduce weight categories to no more than 10 and try to create the "only one champion" for category.

[Sadiqkingofko]

That's never gonna happen tho

[Furn]

Which ideas would you give to improve Boxing appeal and let people be more interested in this sport?

In my opinion there are too many weight categories (no more sense nowdays as it's easy to gain/lose Kg in controlled way compared to 20 years ago) and too many federations/belts, this can confuse people who doesn't follow boxing often.

I would reduce weight categories to no more than 10 and try to create the "only one champion" for category.

I think everyone wants this, especially the 1 champion but how exactly would you do it ?

I would change the scoring system and bring in 10-9.5 for close rounds or rounds where theres little action and 10-8.5 rounds for a dominant round where theres no KD.

Too many big fights where both fighters try to steal the rounds and both fighters think they are winning so not much happens.

[SplitSecond]

Back to original weightclasses and boxing would be back to the days of the fab four.

[LetOutTheCage]

Less champions (less belts), reduce the number of weight divisions, fight weight-in on the same day as the fight.

But the biggest issue at the end of the day is the boxing politics and there's no easy solution to deal with that.

[KingOfGlory]

Last weekend was a showcase of everything wrong with boxing.

-Fight on incredibly late on HBO and $55 PPV in Canada
-Gamboa coasts to a boring victory when he needs to do something spectacular
-Alvarado comes for a paycheck instead of trying to pull off an upset
-Geriatric commentators trash the product they're supposed to be selling
-Lemieux comes in bloated and soft for his second consecutive fight
-Biased commentators undersell Lemiuex, oversell Stevens, and look foolish pouting in shock at the result

[Novecento]

Also idea of "regular" champion, "super" champion, "Silver belt" etc... it creates only confusion.

[Randall Cunning]

Every 2 years the top 2 in the TBRB rankings HAVE to fight, staggered throughout the year, 8 fights a year

[-Freddy-]

Keep it simple.

Definately less belts. It's confusing the casuals and that's an important market.

[KidDinamita]

Less weight classes

Ban those ugly carnival shorts a lot of boxers wear

Stop "marinating" fights, fights are not meat

Fight more often

Stop paying boxers those millions that are being paid as this is one of the issues boxers are not fighting regularly as well