You are the new Boxing Czar....

[killersheep]

One champ per division (using Saddo ratings of course).

Some kind of ref and judge system, that punish blatant home town decisions and reffing.

Eliminate interim and Emeritus status completely.

[Spicoli]

For starters,no more Jr this and super that.Original 8 classes.For gods sake some type of financial/legal advisors appointed to fighters,invest in life after boxing.Use of instant replay.Only one set of rules followed by every state,no exceptions.

[bcollins]

For starters,no more Jr this and super that.Original 8 classes.For gods sake some type of financial/legal advisors appointed to fighters,invest in life after boxing.Use of instant replay.Only one set of rules followed by every state,no exceptions.

That one is looooong overdue.

[dee_z_r]

make one official p4p list that is voted on

[Fenster]

Losing all the alphabets and even certain weight classes might be good for FANS but not necessarily so for the fighters. Titles guarantee them money.. which is what they do it for

[Spicoli]

For starters,no more Jr this and super that.Original 8 classes.For gods sake some type of financial/legal advisors appointed to fighters,invest in life after boxing.Use of instant replay.Only one set of rules followed by every state,no exceptions.

That one is looooong overdue.

No doubt,They have pulled it together but there are too many chefs in the kitchen and they nees to be regulated.Not only inside of the ring but all aspects.From the States that dont even have commisions (),The Indian Casinos,the fly by night promoters etc.Sometimes its like evolution has past them by.Jeez.Fighters deserve much better.

[Majesty]

one advantage the ufc seems to have over boxing is ONE title belt per weight class . A lot of peoples records arent ballooned up with undefeated streaks and etc and if they are its a rarity. You dont have 3 champs with undefeated records fighting nobodies.

[Kirkland Laing]

1. Send the people running the sanctioning bodies to Guantanamo. Have one set of titles/rankings which can be run by a nonprofit organisation that can take sanctioning fees to be used only to set up a pension fund for retired boxers. The nonprofit can also do individual pension funds. The people running the nonprofit can be retired boxers. Only one title per division means everybody knows who the world champ is and when the casual fan is watching a world title fight he knows it's legit. The importance of that can't be overestimated. I think we should keep junior this and super that.

2. Don't sanction any fight on pay TV, even HBO or Showtime. Fights have to be on free-to-air national TV only. That way you get huge public interest back in boxing. The only country that still does free-to-air is Germany where boxing is huge. It used to be free-to-air in Britain before satellite TV came along and interest was huge then too. Do it in America and you'd have a massive sport again, with huge public interest in fights and fighters. Hidden away on HBO nobody knows them. It's only the very elite fighters who make money from PPV anyway. If they were on free-to-air they'd lose a lot of earning power but they'd have a national profile so they'd make money from sponsorship and endorsements. The top guys would still make millions so nobody loses and everybody wins. If the top of the bill is say a welterweight fight the next two or three fights on that bill should also be welterweights, so that up and comers can have their profile and ranking built up till they earn a title fight.

[Kel]

1. Send the people running the sanctioning bodies to Guantanamo. Have one set of titles/rankings which can be run by a nonprofit organisation that can take sanctioning fees to be used only to set up a pension fund for retired boxers. The nonprofit can also do individual pension funds. The people running the nonprofit can be retired boxers. Only one title per division means everybody knows who the world champ is and when the casual fan is watching a world title fight he knows it's legit. The importance of that can't be overestimated. I think we should keep junior this and super that.

2. Don't sanction any fight on pay TV, even HBO or Showtime. Fights have to be on free-to-air national TV only. That way you get huge public interest back in boxing. The only country that still does free-to-air is Germany where boxing is huge. It used to be free-to-air in Britain before satellite TV came along and interest was huge then too. Do it in America and you'd have a massive sport again, with huge public interest in fights and fighters. Hidden away on HBO nobody knows them. It's only the very elite fighters who make money from PPV anyway. If they were on free-to-air they'd lose a lot of earning power but they'd have a national profile so they'd make money from sponsorship and endorsements. The top guys would still make millions so nobody loses and everybody wins. If the top of the bill is say a welterweight fight the next two or three fights on that bill should also be welterweights, so that up and comers can have their profile and ranking built up till they earn a title fight.

Exellent mate, I can't even imagine how amazing that would be.

[Kirkland Laing]

1. Send the people running the sanctioning bodies to Guantanamo. Have one set of titles/rankings which can be run by a nonprofit organisation that can take sanctioning fees to be used only to set up a pension fund for retired boxers. The nonprofit can also do individual pension funds. The people running the nonprofit can be retired boxers. Only one title per division means everybody knows who the world champ is and when the casual fan is watching a world title fight he knows it's legit. The importance of that can't be overestimated. I think we should keep junior this and super that.

2. Don't sanction any fight on pay TV, even HBO or Showtime. Fights have to be on free-to-air national TV only. That way you get huge public interest back in boxing. The only country that still does free-to-air is Germany where boxing is huge. It used to be free-to-air in Britain before satellite TV came along and interest was huge then too. Do it in America and you'd have a massive sport again, with huge public interest in fights and fighters. Hidden away on HBO nobody knows them. It's only the very elite fighters who make money from PPV anyway. If they were on free-to-air they'd lose a lot of earning power but they'd have a national profile so they'd make money from sponsorship and endorsements. The top guys would still make millions so nobody loses and everybody wins. If the top of the bill is say a welterweight fight the next two or three fights on that bill should also be welterweights, so that up and comers can have their profile and ranking built up till they earn a title fight.

Exellent mate, I can't even imagine how amazing that would be.

I remember Hagler Hearns was such a big event in the States that ITV evening news had a report from America interviewing people on the street about the fight. If it was happening now nobody would know either guy. Does anybody know the viewing figures for that fight or other big American fights in the eighties?