New Weight Classifications and Rules in Boxing - What Do You Guys Think?

[boliodogs]

I love the tournament. All in favor of this. The fighters who make excuses or choose not to unify will be stripped of their belts. It's time to make the best fight the best or get out of the way.

With the divisions, there are too many. I'd rather have this:

Heavyweight: 201 and up
Cruiserweight: 176-200
Light Heavyweight: 161-175
Middleweight: 148-160
Welterweight: 136-147
Lightweight: 127-135
Featherweight: 119-126
Bantamweight: 113-118
Flyweight: 112 and below

Elimination of the extra weight divisions will increase the competition in each division, giving us better fighters and better fights. There have been too many hype jobs because the said fighter is in a weak division and running it but at the same time, with fewer divisions, the fighter would be given a real test much more quickly, showing us what he's really made of outside of a highlight reel with him blowing through weak opposition. It looks good, but it doesn't mean much when that fighter faces a real opponent and gets picked apart.

I'm all for changes in the game, including returning to same day weigh-ins, open scoring and 15 rounders coming back, at least for the finals in the tournaments. Gotta give the most important fights another selling point, along with modern fighters proving themselves able to go 15 like the fighters of old. Would probably only happen on PPV though as time constricts things on TV.

I like your weight classes. All the traditional weight classes are there and many of the new ones we never really needed are gone. Cruiserweight is there for good fighters who can't make 175 and don't want to fight giants. Same day weigh ins would end the problems that rule created.

[Luilun]

[QUOTE=Luilun;18462775]Why don't we just go back to the original 8 weight classes, add Cruiser, Heavy weight than Super heavy and same day weigh so we don't have guys weighing 20 pounds over the contract weight .

112
118
126
135
147
160
175
190
210 Heavy Weight
Super Heavyweight anything over 210

[Elroy The Great]

keep cruiser, ditch lhw (wtf !)

ditch those puny weight divs (lowest weight being 115)

ditch jr/super divs

[Elroy The Great]

[QUOTE=Luilun;18462781]

Why don't we just go back to the original 8 weight classes, add Cruiser, Heavy weight than Super heavy and same day weigh so we don't have guys weighing 20 pounds over the contract weight .

112
118
126
135
147
160
175
190
210 Heavy Weight
Super Heavyweight anything over 210

thisll work......

['b']

Why don't we just go back to the original 8 weight classes, add Cruiser, Heavy weight than Super heavy and same day weigh so we don't have guys weighing 20 pounds over the contract weight .

112
118
126
135
147
160
175
190
210 Heavy Weight
Super Heavyweight anything over 210

I like this. The 25 pound jump from LHW to CW is too much as it is, no-one can put on 11kg of muscle in any short amount of time.

[iamboxing]

Why every 2 years? There seems to be some unwritten rule in boxing that several years need to pass before beltholders face each other and anyone saying otherwise is branded naive or lacking business acumen.

[Boxnation fan]

Why every 2 years? There seems to be some unwritten rule in boxing that several years need to pass before beltholders face each other and anyone saying otherwise is branded naive or lacking business acumen.

Well i actually do think there needs to be a bit of time for fights to build up and some of the newer champions to get more experience.

Once every two years to crown a Undisputed Champion would basically means there's also at least half the weight divisions going through the tournament.

[Boxnation fan]

It's time to tweak the Boxing Weight Classes and some Rules.

NEW WEIGHT CLASSIFICATIONS

Minimumweight and Cruiserweight eliminated.

Light Flyweight: 110 lbs

Flyweight: 115 lbs

Super Flyweight: 120 lbs

Bantamweight: 125 lbs

Super Bantamweight: 130 lbs

Featherweight: 135 lbs

Super Feathweight: 140 lbs

Lightweight: 145 lbs

Super Lightweight: 150 lbs

Welterweight: 155 lbs

Super Welterweight: 165 lbs

Middleweight: 175 lbs

Super Middleweight: 185 lbs

Light Heavyweght: 210 lbs

Heavyweight: 210+ lbs

NEW RULES IN BOXING:

Regular and Interim World Titles are elimated.

A World Champion Belt Holder must make THREE World Title defences during a 12 Month Calander Year including one defence against the Mandatory Number 1 and one defence against a Top 10 Opponent.

If a World Champion does not fulfill his Three defences a Year, they will be stripped of their World Title unless they provide Medical records/Written Notifcation of any Injuries or Family Bereavements that prevent them from fulfilling their required number of defences per year.

WBC/WBA/IBF/WBO will Remain but every TWO years, all World Champion Belt Holders must face each other to create an UNDISPUTED CHAMPION in their Weight Class.

Once an Undisputed Champion is Crowned, all Belts become vacant.

What do you guys think?

[TheUntouchable]

Same day weigh ins? Pre fight weigh ins!

[bigjavi973]

why even change the weight classes leave them be....

I would use more of universal naming of the weight classes and belts...

for example...

super welterweight = light middleweight


we know that but for someone who doesnt really follow boxing that would throw them off imo...

Also the belts have to remain at one belt per sanctioning body who is officially recognized by the ibhof.....

WBA
WBC
IBF
WBO

and then there's THE RING belt.......


imo what there needs to be is a universal boxing body to control those belt organizations (imo should be the ibhof that comes up with that)

must fight one mando per year if you only have ONE to two belts

must fight TWO mandos per year if you have more than 2 belts etc

NO STEP ASIDE FEES AT ALL!

and so on and so on.....