Comments Thread For: Holiday Boxing Wishes for 2020

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By Cliff Rold - Pretend for a moment Santa could bring boxing fans anything they wished for in 2020. Maybe Santa could even name one commissioner for a day. With a new year, new decade, dawning, the possibilities are endless. No two fans would likely wish for all the same things, as it should be. Some are the type who only get excited for the...
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[LAchargers373]

May-pac 2 anyone who disagrees doesn’t respect what either has put into the sport. They both deserve to get paid and go out fighting each other

[Robi13]

Estrada vs Inoue
Wilder vs Joshua
Beterbiev v Bivol
Canelo vs Benavidez
Vergil Ortiz vs bud
Mikey vs Pacquiao
Loma vs haney
Tank vs Teófimo

[Liondw]

I'd rather watch Mayweather-Pacquaio II than Mayweather vs a mma fighter in boxing such as Khabib. Wishlist: Also wishful thinking, but Canelo vs Beterbiev, Canelo vs Charlo, Golovkin vs Charlo, Loma vs Davis, Fury-Wilder rematch winner vs Joshua, Beterbiev vs Bivol and Crawford vs Spence (if hopefully healthy Errol).

[Eff Pandas]

1. Boxing is divided into tiers like baseball is so that the cream rises to the top in a more fair manner regardless of who you are affiliated with. Win x number of fights at the bottom tier I & move up to tier II. Win a tournament at tier II move up to tier III. Lose too many fights at tier III & you move back to tier II. Much more competitive fights at all levels in a tiered boxing world.

2. One champion per division.

3. Restructuring of divisions. There are too many lil guy divisions no one or few care about. 105 to 140, 35lbs, covers 10 of the 17 weight divisions & I suspect 90%+ of casuals couldn't name 5 title holders in these divisions at any given time. We should kill about half of those 10 lil guy divisions getting us to about 12 divisions. And I also think 265 should be the HW limit. I'm indifferent on creating a freakshow 265+ division, but I'd lean towards nah.

4. With a tiered & one champion boxing world I think it would easier to make region, country & state titles matter more in boxing. I dig how on the UK scene winning the British or European title is a big deal. I think that should be commonplace in all countries & carry more prestige than it currently does in most places, the US included.

5. A more detailed & improved scoring system with checks & balances in place to raise the good judges & weed out the bad judges systematically.

[ShoulderRoll]

Having only one world champion per division would solve a lot of problems.

Competing networks and promoters would all have to fall in line and respect the pecking order.

But that's precisely why we don't have one champion per division...the powers that be have encouraged the rise of the WBO and IBF so that they can overhype and sell the lesser fighters in their stable that aren't good enough to be the top dog.

[CaptainWalrus]

Cruise vs Bieber mid 2020.

[Shadoww702]

The list of great fights is easy.

I wish for:

Forget 1 champ per weight class and just give us 1 CHAMP per organization.

WBA to get rid of

Super
World
Interim
Gold Champions

IBF stripping Champions after only 2 weeks of winning belt. They should get a year to fight the IBF CRUMMY mando’s.

WBC to quit sucking Canelo’s C@ck. Quit changing their PED rules. Get rid of their Franchise belt. And quit making up all these sht hoochie mama Taco Bell belts.

WBO to quit sucking Bob Arums C@ck. Get a REAL PED program. Quit leaving #1 and #2 spots vacant and For Sale.

Happy New Year!!!

[TrubiskyRules]

How about this one...

@130
LSC vs. Berchelt
LSC vs. Vargas

@135
Berchelt vs. Tank
Berchelt vs. Teofimo/Loma winner

@140
Mikey vs. Taylor
Mikey vs. Ramirez
Taylor vs. Ramirez
Taylor vs. Prograis rematch

@160
Charlo vs. Chenko
Munguia vs. Charlo
GGG retires

@168
Smith vs. Canelo
BJS vs. Jacobs
Canelo vs. Benevidez

@175
Canelo vs. Bivol
Bivol vs. Zurdo
Canelo vs. Zurdo
Beterbiev vs. Bivol
Zurdo vs. Bivol

HEAVYWEIGHT
Usyk vs. Ruiz/Miller then one of the big three (Fury/Wilder/AJ)

Thoughts???

[GhostofDempsey]

One champion per division and less divisions. Enforce mandatory opponents and make them earn their shot by beating the best.

Spence vs. Crawford
Pac vs. Mikey and Mayweather
Canelo vs. GGG
Wilder vs. Fury and AJ
Loma vs. Tank
Beterbiev vs. Bivol
Smith vs. Plant
Charlo vs. Andrade or Jacobs
Ramirez vs. Taylor

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