Comments Thread For: WBC Prez Reacts To Bridgerweight Backlash: This is Not a Fan Club!

[Elpatron2]

Anyone know how to get this guy out of there? Or does he own the belt,

[Shadoww702]

That is one guy you just want to punch in the face. And be like are you fkn SERIOUS!!!

[_Rexy_]

Mauricio, fans run this sport. It literally is a fan club.

[ShoulderRoll]

It is the fans who buy tickets to boxing matches, who purchase PPVs, and whose money advertisers target.

This money is also where your beloved sanctioning fees come from. You fat piece of crap.

Our voice should be taken into account above everybody else, except for the fighters themselves.

[1hourRun]

The 'Bridger' weight-class is going to out-perform the dreadful HW division. The WBC should be praised for creating the outstanding cruiserweight class, that is constantly bringing us unifications and clear supremacy.

The WBA followed in 1982, then the IBF in 1983. Today will be no different. Like it or not, promoters and networks want to add value to their product. In boxing, a championship is the proper tool to market big-fights to the masses and promotes the sport. This also helps prize-fighters raise their profile, establishes grades and recognition in the sport.

Not many fans have much of problem giving multi-weight champions from the lightweights credit for climbing 2-3-4 weight class, in fact, this increases their legacy. Why should it be different for cruiser-bridger-heavy weight classes? Not everyone is born a giant-hunchback like Tyson Fury, if such a term as 'weight-bully' applies, you will not find more cowards taking advantage of their size than HW's.

Boxers want belts, promoters want belts, networks want belts, fans want to see championship fights, the demand is too great to stop the 'Bridger' weight class.

Its the dawning of a new era.

[YoungManRumble]

This pandering, opportunist, fat, unlikeable fuck Sulaiman talking straight out his ass again.

Where you think the money comes from?

[REDEEMER]

He’s right ,wasted space between 200/ 220. Usyk vs Wilder in 2022 most likely.

[TheMyspaceDayz]

The only studying Sulaiman does is when he studies his bank account. He needs to shut his yap and open his ears. The people have spoken.

[boxingitis]

I approve of the weight class. Boxers need to fight a close to an even weight as possible. 220 vs 280 is not too equally match. No one really cares about the first 6 weight classed anyways.

[NearHypnos]

So basically instead of keeping it as HW and naming the heavier one Super Heavy like the olympics do...wasn’t the move?

Even Super CW is better.

Lets be honest though, there are some fine fighters who just point blank are not big enough to compete with guys like Fury who are so big that it’s realistically not fair. Like Povetkin.

However, would any of these guys settle for not fighting in the biggest and baddest class in whats essentially open weight? Doubt