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The WBC belt MUST be kept away from the Klitschkos
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Originally posted by Weebler I View PostNo, the fans lose when the top heavyweights won't fight each other and they won't fight each other when there's no money to be made.
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Originally posted by BattlingNelson View PostPrecisely. Ordinary fans. I mean what is more recognizable: 8 champions or 17x4 Champions?
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Originally posted by Black Barty View PostWhat's better for the ordinary fan? A unified champ on the other side of the world whose fights are always at 4 AM, or a paper champ whose fights they can actually attend or watch live on TV?
Listen. You can have your opinion. I think its ******ed, but to each his own.
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Originally posted by BattlingNelson View PostYou claim that too huh? If you took the time to actually check it out, I'm confident that you'd find little difference between various decades. You are putting forth a myth!
In other divisions today, fights get made because the money is there as an incentive.
In the HW division, there is no incentive. In fact, there's a disincentive to take risks because none of the guys want to lose a potential mandatory spot to Klitschko, the lottery ticket.
Amir Khan can make $1.5m fighting Collazo, Kubrat Pulev can't make that against Chisora, so why risk his mandatory spot? in the meantime he has to wait around fighting nobodies.Last edited by Weebler I; 05-12-2014, 02:32 PM.
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Originally posted by Weebler I View PostThe one champ per weight class only works if there was one belt and that champ fights the next best consistently instead of taking his pick from the weakest of 5 mandatories and weak voluntaries in between while the rest of the division waits around fighting for peanuts against overmatched opponents.
With all these belts, each with their own mandatories, the champion can pick the fights that are lowest risk with highest reward. People have to wait on him to eventually choose them and the wait can be long.
Look at Pulev or also look at how long Vitali kept putting off the Stiverne fight.
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Originally posted by Weebler I View PostIn what respect?
In other divisions today, fights get made because the money is there as an incentive.
In the HW division, there is no incentive. In fact, there's a disincentive to take risks because none of the guys want to lose a potential mandatory spot to Klitschko, the lottery ticket.
Amir Khan can make $1.5m fighting Collazo, Kubrat Pulev can't make that against Chisora, so why risk his mandatory spot? in the meantime he has to wait around fighting nobodies.
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