What would give you the most happiness if it happened in boxing?

Which would give you the most happiness if it were to occur in boxing? :dunno:

 

Tyson coming back with his skills from the 80s, cleaning out the Heavyweight division and ruling with an IRON fist!!! :bears:

 

All the So-Called "Champions" Being FORCED to Fight 1 Another,Giving Us an UNDISPUTED Champion PER Division...


REED:clap:

 

Dissolution of the ABC's, and the formation of a National Commission.


Because then all other things on the list will eventually happen.....:bears::bears:

 

The foundation of an INTERNATIONAL commisson, would be a great place.

We had a topic on progression and change over @ BWBS. Its no small problem.

 

Actually,REED CHANGES his Answer...

Having Boxing Back on Network T.V.(ABC,NBC,CBS)would B the "Cure"...


REED:clap:

 

NATIONAL Commission? You American's think that USA is the only country of the world. This aint the NBA or NFL...this is boxing. it would require an.....[WARNING!! be prepared for it...Americans may find the following confusing and disturbing...]...INTERNATIONAL commission!!!:flip:

 

I voted for "Dissolution of the ABC's".

If that happens, a lot of the other poll options will come afterward. Horse before the cart.

 

Ah...you do have COMMON SENSE after all!! :clap:

 

Yes that's my choice too.

I remember they tried to bring boxing back to the major networks after the 2000 Olympics and people got to see Bojado and other Olympians on NBC. I thought it would lead to bigger things down the road, but nothing came of it.

Tarver tried to get back on network TV, but apparently that's in the trash now too.

 

Hahaha. True. Even though you were have serious have joking, I think more to the point is getting rid of the corrupt sanctioning bodies.

 

I voted for a truly dominant and recognized Heavyweight champion.

Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Ali, Tyson....

That's what draws the fans and builds excitement. As the heavyweight division is...so is boxing....

 

"National Commission" is just a phrase that's championed a lot. I don't know if there are major movements like these abroad (Asia, Europe, etc). But choose #1 if you want an "International Commission", we'll know what you mean.

 

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION would never happen....:nono:...NATIONAL COMMISSION is good enough...and feasible....INTERNATIONAL might happen but WE NEED to START somewhere...boxing seems to be suffering ONLY in the STATES apparently in europe and asia it's doing dandy..

 

I made a post about this a few weeks ago. I think a large part of why boxing seems to be lagging in terms of popularity and excitement is because of the lack of a dominant "heavyweight" and "middleweight" champ. Historically these two divisions carried boxing. Now days the biggest stars we have are in the featherweight and welterweight divisions.

We need the big guns back. :clap:

 

That's always nice, but boxing has has survived if not even thrived without one. De La Hoya-Mayweather shattered PPV records. Ray Leonard and Tito Trinidad had huge fan appeal.

It's a huge bonus for boxing to have a dominant HWY champion, but it's already been proven it's not vital.

 

Yeah but using your examples and logic I can produce the exact same arguments against everything else on that list....

Bottomline is, we all know that the casual fans are draw to the sport by the dominant Heavyweight. I speak to many used-to-be casual fans, and the frst thing they say in giving reasons why they no longer like boxing is "There are no good Heavyweights any more".

 

This the cure for Boxing as we know it! New world order.:clap:

 

Boxing's return to network television (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc)

THis won't work unless promoters are willing to work with each other and put SOME GOOD fight on TV. Tarver vs. some guy is not going to cut it...:nono: What the point of having boxing on a national stage if they are just going to show BORING ass fights...

 

But that would result in Floyd getting brutally KTFO.

I wasn't aware we had two choices in this.

Narrow that shit down boy.:nono:

 

They need to cut out some of the weight classes so we have more talent per class. Then they need to cut out all the BS belts and have 1 champ per weight, the only guy who gets to fight the champ is the #1 contender who gets his rating by fighting other rated fighters and really earning his #1 status. If your rated low you get paided as such, the higher you climb up the ratings the bigger your checks get.

 

I actually have thought about how boxing would be without some of the other weight classes. I think boxing could do without the 154, and 130 classes. That would force 154 pounders to either stay at welterweight or move up to 160. Ouma, Simms, Vargas, and Mosley would fill out either of those weight classes nicely.

 

Honestly, its more than just those two. If someone can present me with a realistic rationale behind Jr weight classes, I would like to hear it.

I understand some of these weight classes are talent laden. Thats awesome and it should be used as a motivating factor to unify those classes, instead of arguing for a reason to keep them.

Cruiser is perhaps the only class that I view some value in holding on to. Even then, thats simply due to the differences in weight between 175 and unlimited.

 

Some of the jr weight classes just make sense to have...135 to 147 is a really big jump...as is 147 to 160 to 175...

Suppose...
105,110,115,120,125,130,135,141,148, 156, 165, 175, 200, H

But look what happens...yee haw...we've cut it down from 17 to 14 weight classes and fucked up one of the best things about boxing...directly comparing fighters at the same weight class.

We're stuck with what we have for the most part. I suppose you could do the 105,110,115,120,125 thing and replace 7 weight classes with 5 without doing much harm, if any...but really, what good would it do? Not much.

You think average or below average fans get confused now...start fucking around with weight classes so that even decent fans get confused.

Hell, do you know how many people still think ams are scored by pity pat shots or are 3 rounds? And those changes are like 15 and 7 years old, respectively.

 

What if boxing cleaned out the promoters and did something like a constant world tournament??? The international commission would set the cards, pay for everything, and the champs would earn the most money. with the number one contenders earning 2nd best money and so forth. That way we could get rid of hundreds of mediocre boxers like cory spinks :bears: and only the best will be earning millions.

 

Right on the money Illuminati:clap:

Boxing needs an international commission much like Cycling. With this boxing would be back on network t.v. with the best fighting the best. We wouldn't have to worry about if this guy is with Bob arum so no way he will ever fight this guy cuz he's with golden boy. This is where the UFC does have an advantage over boxing.

 

I'd like to see Floyd get KO'd by TBA.

It wouldn't save boxing but it would certainly bring him back down to Earth.

 

:nono: he will make a comeback. Meanwhile his brother will reign


AHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

2.15 million people disagree with this claim.

I voted for boxing back on the major networks. If you put a product where people can immediately see it, they'd be more inclined to tune in. Not to mention that I could finally cancel HBO and Showtime and save around $25 a month. And both scenarios would make me happy.

I couldn't care less about a dominant/recognized heavyweight champion. I'm just as concerned that there are around 12 other divisions in boxing without a true leader.

 

Jake, you are more in the "know" than anyone on this board. Why do you seem to give these abc fuckers passes? Do you not think one commission would be better?:dunno: