Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
A year from now.... two years from now.... are we STILL going to be posting about who's ducking who in the Pacquiao-Mayweather, and Wlad-Haye potential matchups? Not only would that be sad... it would be bad for boxing. I know big fights need time in order to develop the proper buildup and publicity. It's part of boxing. But like ALL anticipated events, there's a very real curve of public interest in there. Interest builds and builds, until the time is right for the matchup. But continue to make the public wait.... and interest starts to wane. Not only that, but conditions begin to deteriorate. "So-and-so" is now past his prime. The other guy got injured. One of them lost a meaningless tuneup fight. And so on and so on. Not to mention that people just get fed up and move on to other interests. I don't know about anybody else, but it seems to me we've been recirculating all these who's ducking who threads for a decade now.

All we have are opposing promoters, fighting mind games and doing all kinds of sh*t to gain the upper hand. They could care less about the boxing fans.... they're just out for their own selfish interests. So why not have an arbitrator, whose main objective would be to settle issues that are keeping fights from happening? We've seen that in other sports, like baseball for instance.... where player strikes have been averted because an arbitrator sits between the player reps and the team owners, and irons out the differences.

Maybe it wouldn't work in boxing, I don't know. What i DO know is that boxing continues to suffer, and boxing fans continue to be dangled on a string, arguing and fighting amongst ourselves about hypothetical situations that in the end..... will probably never happen anyway. And if and when the fights DO happen, circumstances will have changed, and excuses will be more plentiful. But maybe that's just the nature of boxing I guess.

Your mixing apples & oranges and calling them vegetables. The arbitrator your referring to in baseball is a contract negotiation between the collective owners and the collective player's union. This type of relationship doesn't exist in Boxing.

With Boxing it is Promoter vs Promoter where they argue about the event particulars and profit split. And the fighters argue about the fight particulars and purse split.

Making match-ups in Professional Boxing is so convoluted it is in complete disarray. Sanctioning bodies have overlapping 'jurisdictions' (for lack of a appropriate term.) and can't control fighter match-ups as it did some time in the past. If they want to co-exist, they should get together and draw lines, otherwise eventually the weaker ones will die or play minor roles.