If you could change anything about boxing,what would it be?

[SEANIE]

What would you change,how and why?

If a boxer gets up before the count of ten after a knockdown the ref has to let the fight go on.
the bell saves a knocked down boxer. once the bell goes the count stops.
15 round title fights.
boxers who throw less than 50 punches a round getting disqualified.

So if a fighter is standing at the count of 9 but wobbling all over and looks like he got hit with a cattle prod, you still think the fight should go on? That could cause' alot of permanent damage to fighters.
And I personally don't want the bell to save a fighter, if he can't make the count, bell or not, he loses.
I wouldn't mind seeing 15 round title fights, or 15 rounders period.

yeah absolutely, boxings a violent sport and the aim is to injure your opponent. if someone beats the count of 10 then they have proved they can continue and i would like to see the bell go and a unconscious boxer who was knocked down before the bell dragged back to his corner and able to continue at the start of the next round.

Fucking idiot..

The aim of boxing is not to injure your opponent and youve blatently never boxed a lick in your life

I have boxed. I boxed for Gemini ABC in Liverpool between 1998 - 2000

[SEANIE]

no promotors like don king

Don King made fights happen, he worked tirelessly to make himself money and other promoters who never put in his effort got nowhere. People may not like him, but thats called jealousy.

[SweetPea]

Commissions are a much bigger problems than promoters.

A promoter wants the biggest and the best fights to happen, because the better the matchup, the more people will watch, and therefore the more money can be made by the promoter.

A promoter doesn't want his fighter getting stuck fighting undeserving #1 mandatory contenders.

To a commission, a sanctioning fee is a sanctioning fee. All the commission cares about is that the fee gets paid, they don't care about making the best fights happen.

[chip]

A promoter wants the biggest and the best fights to happen, because the better the matchup, the more people will watch, and therefore the more money can be made by the promoter.

A promoter doesn't want his fighter getting stuck fighting undeserving #1 mandatory contenders

What went wrong with Warren then !!!! i wish the above was his mission unfortunately we have to watch Skelton V Williams, williams V Audley about 50 times or Enzo V TBC

[LUCKY_13]

I have thought about the idea of combining all the belts to make one champion per weight division, causing more competition between fighters.

On a smaller scale, I would change the stupid decision to stop Vitali Klitschko when he vs'ed Lennox Lewis. I would make the ref and fight doctor let the fight continue and watched on as Vitali smashed Lewis!

[porkypara]

1 world champion per division.


I think that is why boxing is not as popular as it once was.So fucking confusing with all the so called champs.

[donnydarkoIRL]

What would you change,how and why?

If a boxer gets up before the count of ten after a knockdown the ref has to let the fight go on.
the bell saves a knocked down boxer. once the bell goes the count stops.
15 round title fights.
boxers who throw less than 50 punches a round getting disqualified.

Throw more than 50 puncehs a round! There would be no Heavyweight division.
Floyd Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins, Joel Casamayor would all be Dq'd every fight!!!1

[Kev]

Well most of the bases have been covered so I'll just suggest few more off the wall suggestions.

I'd like to see more novelty fights.

For example two 130 lbers teaming up and fighting a heavyweight in a two against one matchup.

Have an Ultimate boxer 4 yearly tournament. No weight classes just a 32 man elimination tournament. Anyone can enter, fights are 12 rounds with at least 6 weeks between fights so it could last the better part of a year.

Winners go through, losers go home until we are left with the Ultimate boxing champion.

Obviously shitsters like Floyd coulnd't enter cos they'd get their butts whupped so it would remind the upstart little guys and the fans who the REAL top fighters are.

I'd also like drug testing to be made legal, along with any augmentations or cyber enhancements. Guys with bionic arms and titanium plated chins would be awesome to watch as would pumped up super hero type humans.

And I'd like to see man vs beast fights as well, no not Valuev but lions, bears and if possible cyclops.

It would be wicked if they could introduce spell casting and mortal combat style death moves.

Although technically the more of my ideas got implemented the less it would really be boxing I guess.

I suppose what I really want is super hero's vs monsters and villians.

It won't happen though HBO and the other guys just don't have the vision that I have

[gyrokai]

All you guys are off..... or giving too many things to change. He said ONE, right?

The most important thing to change in boxing is............


The judges.
Seen some horrible decisions in my day.
Everything else in boxing is just perfect.

[Wayne]

Dissolve all of the alphabet organizations, centralize the sport with one governing body - one title per weight class. Standard number of defenses per year by each champion and scheduling mandatory - really mandatory - bouts between contenders to determine who gets a shot at the title.

I agree with this and I also would like a regulated formulae for rankings. There should be some system in place which prevents guys who have done nothing being ranked too highly. Other than though,I love most of the things about the sport.

I'd love to see a boxing league. I would add to the champions that there should be a junior version of each championship belt to add a little drama between the champ and the Champ.

[X]

This is a good question, so I'll agree with a couple of other posters and also add my own opinions:

1. Get the Alphabet Boys discredited by the general paying public. Once those bloodsuckers are gone, people-power would determine who is really recognised as the top fighters and natural economic pressure will force people to want to fight him. This would mean an end to meaningless mandatory defences, overmatched contenders and outragous sanctioning fees or step aside money.

2. Take the good fights away from PPV. Give it back to the people who want to watch it, who often can't afford to and who are also the real lifeblood of the sport. Making the top fighters inot household names will help boxing to become a mainstream sport again and attract the best athletic talent into it.

3. Get a real, meaninful and robust Professional Boxers Association in place. This should force boxers to contribute to pension funds and medical insurances as a percentage of their pay. Someone like Oscar would contribute a slightly lower percentage than a journey man fighter but would still pay in many millions more than lesser and unsuccessful fighters (like all the ones he fought on the way up) can make.

[gyrokai]

Boxing league's for WIMPS.

The belts....... I don't care about the belts. People seem to, that's why they are still alive, because of YOU GUYS. haha ....... jk. But many guys like the belts, just ask the boxers who own them.

PPV hurts.

[Dizaster]

I know professional boxers work very hard. Possibly harder than ANY other sport, and the demands on their bodies are extreme, so I think MOST of them deserve all the money they get..


BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

If I could change it so the same money was up in the air but

1. The winner takes the entire purse
2. The loser got nothing..


THEN you would see true passion and hunger for winning.... I almost beleive it would affect things to the point that some fighters would even alter their styles to improve their odds of winning.. Sounds crazy, but all that extra motivation and all or nothing attitude would make for exciting boxing...

[SweetPea]

I'd like to see more novelty fights.

For example two 130 lbers teaming up and fighting a heavyweight in a two against one matchup.

I love this idea. These would make great undercard fights.

[bornlivelife]

Yeah

1. Sort the judging out - stop the sometimes shocking scores, and hometown decisions - eg if any judges scores differ by more than 3 points then investiagte / potentially strike them off

2. Sort the challenging thing out - this year has been much beter, but making sure the real tops in the division face each other quickly - you could even make unifications madatory fro example

3. Stop people inheriting belts, and also losing them too quickly without defending against rubbish mandatories

4. DEDUCT POINTS FOR BEING BORING AND CONNECTING WITH LESS THAN 20 PUNCHES A ROUND