Which of the big 4 alphabets do we dump first?

[killersheep]

WBA - Three percent (3%) of the purse of each boxer with a minimum of $1,500 for the challenger and $3,500 for the champion, or the maxium of $150,000.

WBO - "Three percent (3%) of their purses with a minimum of $1,000.00 and a maximum of $90,000.00 per boxer."

WBC - "Three percent (3.0%) of all gross amounts received by the boxers as compensation for a bout... On gross compensation up to US$100,000 a minimum of US$3,000.00 shall be due from the champion, and US$1,000.00 shall be due from the challenger. In the event of a vacant title, a minimum of US$2,000.00 shall be due from each boxer."

IBF - "Three percent (3%) of the purse of each boxer with a minimum of $1,000 for the challenger and $1,500 for the champion"

So lets look at it this way if fighter A has all 4 belts and fighter B is challenging for all four and they decide to pay all of the sanctioning fees....

Assume a total purse of $5,000,000 for each fighter
This is what they pay out in fees

Fighter A (champion) and Fighter B (challenger)
Each pay...........
WBA - $150,000
WBO - $90,000
WBC - $150,000
IBF - $150,000

So total cost in sanctioning fees is $1,080,000 for a $10,000,000 total purse.
This does not include the belt charge, nor does it include Sanctioning body specific regulations in regards to weigh-ins etc, nor does it include fees for officials like refs and judges.

Where did you get all this information?(good job by the way)

From the sanctioning bodies websites.

I'll try to dig up the links it took a little digging.

[FTMatty]

WBA, coz they take an already corrupt system and really take the piss

[The Fightfan]

All of them.

[Kirkland Laing]

The WBC awarded a "Diamond belt" to the Manny-Cotto winner, or was it Manny's fight before that? Basically it was to get a sanctioning fee. Now they're offering to award one at the same weight to the winner of Mayweather Mosley. The supposedly most presitgious belt ever and there's already two at the same weight. Eventually people will come to their senses and these guys will all be rounded up and shot.

[No Contest]

I picked the WBO because it should be officially called the Warren Boxing Organization. They are all shady, but I say the least shady recently has been the IBF.