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    Default Re: Whats bad about boxing

    - The number of fighters that are seen as superstars, future champs, or "most feared fighter" just because they are volume punchers or abnormally large for their weight but are good at working the scales.

    - The number of guys that lack personality and confidence but try to talk big when a mic is in front of them.

    - Announcers that try to act like they are running the show ; making up stuff on the fly; "Bang bang bangs"; color commentators treating hall of fame trainers like ignorant spectators and post fight interviewers that try to pull the mic away when they are not getting the answers they want.

    - stupid extra belts and other sanctioning fee ploys by the alphabet orgs.

    - young fighters mismanaged and rushed too fast in an effort to capitalize off a name or marketing only to have their career destroyed.

    -"Keep it in the family" dads and other relatives that want to train their kids but don't know crap about boxing. Fighters that keep mediocre trainers because they are yes men and don't push them too hard.

    -Acting, whining, crying, hurling yourself to the mat or out of the ring, and then playing the victim. Old fighters that don't want to up their output, cut off the ring or make their opponent fight... but love to say stuff after the fight like.. "i hurt him.. and then my knee locked and he ran from me.."

    - Networks not showing the ring card girls between rounds. Especially during boring fights.
    They want your @$$ beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement, excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and tear your @$$ down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy.

    Roy Jones, Jr. "What I've Learned," Esquire 2003

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    Default Re: Whats bad about boxing

    The main thing is that boxing hasn't a true Governing body like say football has in FIFA or Rugby Union has in IRB.

    They have tiers of control underneath in term's of continents and country's but are the overall governing body.

    At the last count boxing had 33 governing bodies claiming to represent the World.

    The original ones that had power made a mess that led to others forming organisations.

    I doubt it can ever be sorted out fully, we have to hope that the main governing bodies sort themselves out and the others fall to the way side. Though the historic WBA and WBC keep messing up with 'interim', 'silver' champions: Aslong as they do then nothing will change for the better.

    Things like fighters age limits, pensions etc can't be global until we have a global organisation rather than 33!

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