5+ minute round discussion thread

[Boom Boom]

That's a great post, BoomBoom, and I agree with every word of it.

I, like you, am a boxer...but I am an amatuer, and a young one who is still impressionable. Impressonable enough to know that I have observed this game closely enough for the last year or so...and almost week in and week out, to be finding myself not wanting to in any way persue it beyond an amateur level.

I expected it to be better. The officiating, the judging, all parties concerned. But see it is not even coming close to having the integrity of the system I compete in now, or the competence. I mean, I Love this sport, but I don't feel any sort of trust towards it at the professional level.

It is all very discouraging. I don't really know what it needs, some sort of overhaul in governing body maybe? Some sort of hired external moral and competence auditors? What, what does it need? I know it needs something, and it needs it badly.

I don't know how anyone can watch these things going down, again and again, and be in mine or similar shoes and still dream of being there one day. Because for what? To have rug ripped out from under you by a system of corruption or incompetance? Urgh.

Thanks man, I still think that things can change for the better of the sport even though they havent yet. It all starts with accountabilty. Right now there is none. Theres no one overseeing the overseers. It comes down to lack of communication among officials and commisions and lack of organization. Boxing shows are run diffently by seperate commisions in every state in the US and other countries have their own commisions. Some are more strict than others, and some are more corrupt than others. A lot of sanctioned fights are mismatches where one guy is set up to lose. Its not a fixed fight, but a guy who is 0-5(5) is fighting a guy whos 5-0(5) has no chance. If fact, theres a better chance that he gets hurt than not. These fights are approved by the specific commision. These things happen all the time. Some states have gotten better, but a lot of them still still allow these kinds of fights to happen. Again, the fighters best interest is not at heart. Thats just an example but its not an uncommon story. In baseball you have MLB, Hockey has the NHL, Football NFL, boxing has no national commision. Most officials dont want one because it would give most of them less power, thus they wouldnt be able to take advantage of a fighter for their own benefit as easily.