If UFC can do it, why can't the WBC/WBA/IBF Etc..

[CGM]

I was reading an article on the prospect of one governing body in boxing and it got me thinking about the Sanctioning bodies, TV companies and promoters and how they could work together in a way that was better for Boxing overall.

For me, TV holds the Key and Promoters are the biggest problem, in a sense.

I look at UFC, who are effectively both a sanctioning body and a promotional company, and wonder why a long standing sanctioning body like the WBC has never thought to strike up a deal with a Major Network like HBO? This would mean that promoters would have to stage shows for the WBC meaning the WBC would get to pick the best shows from a wide range of promoters and pass on the most lucrative shows for TV coverage.

TV wins because the best shows are coming from more every promoter who's fighter is sanctioned to the WBC.

The Promoters loose out if they choose not to go with the Sanctioning body with the big TV deal.

The sanctioning body wins because they have all the traffic.

Fans win for obvious reasons.

There is no way in hell. For starters who would you have to run the show? Don King? Bob Arum? And then you have to tell all the boxers that they have to take orders from this guy. I appreciate your desire to have a unified structure to boxing, we all want that, but the UFC model is not the way to go. I'd rather have it the way it is now.

[VictorCharlie]

The easiest way to get this is simple. Have a federal boxing commission that is superior to all state boards and that only recognizes one belt and only allows sanctioning fees to be collected for that one belt. So yes outside of the US you could fight for a different "world championship", but lets be honest if tomorrow the only sanctioning group that could fight in Vegas was for arguments sake the IBF then all the other would quickly fall off the map.