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Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
- Thread starter Jesus Is Lord
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I get it but he needs to adapt. It’s like a life-long actor who struggles to get roles and nepo or social media has someone else at the forefront; you have to bet where that person is even if their skills are not as strong as yours…adapt their networking skills
which is true but like i said boxing brought it on itself where the jake pauls, misfits, and streamers of the world think they can fight and the public responded positively to the shyt
there is a simple reason why I disagree with a lot of what you are saying......a single championship concept existed before. lol. why is there a WWE Champion and a World Heavyweight Champion? to popularize more than one fighter across a fanbase.
the pro of having these belts are now fighters who arent near the best in their divisions can make a lot of money. the con is, we get less meaningful fights and lower frequency of good fights. I mean I get it but my point is really to say if you keep adding these belts, it will never end and things will further get diluted. you can not honestly sit here and tell me you are happy with getting an one or two undisputed champions every few years. you can barely get lineal champions for that matter. The last WW guy to beat the guy was 20 years ago when Floyd beat Baldomir.
belts do more harm than good for the fans and sometimes to the fighter depends on how unlucky they may be. some bodies dont want unifications depending on who the fighters are. and then they have different rules, like IBF rehydration. thats not to say its a bad thing but they need to go back to unified boxing rules.
have you ever thought about this....had the IBF not been on the line in the first Pac-Marquez fight, Marquez would have lost by the 3KD rule. now of course, he came back and had a great fight and we got more fights between them but on the flipside, Pac could have became a legend off that fight alone. good or bad is not what I am arguing....I am arguing that belts should not dictate the outcome of ANY fight. thats too much. a belt should only matter if you win or lose, not how.
another example is how SRL manipulated these titles (I am a fan btw) but first only the WBC would sanction the fight with Hagler with is really the only way SRL would accept it. had the WBA not stripped Hagler, surely Hagler would have forced a 15 round fight. secondly with Lalonde, having him weigh in at 175 first then 167 for the 168lb title. it was Lalonde's choice but another way a belt was used to manipulate and dictate the terms of a fight.
I get where you are coming from, but that doesnt mean what I am saying is wrong or cant be achieved. both ways you get benefits and drawbacks...but we dont need anymore belts....if anything we need less.
UpAndComing
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I'm confused why Andy Cruz will go back to the well of the IBF route considering he lost to Muratalla. Unless he suspects that Murtalla may fight Shakur next or vacate and move up
its possible...muratalla is a big lightweight but beating albert bell is not a given either
I havent looked in to it but it may be his quickest path to a title and truth be told he really didnt get beat that bad by Raymond. he could win a fight, just hard with that amateur style to beat these pros for 12 rounds. but yes, he'd better worry about Bell.
Floyd retired about 9 years ago. The fact that he was able to stay away “officlally” for nearly a decade, with the type of spending habits that he has, illustrates just how many he had.
Gotta have a lot of money to spend the way he spends.
UpAndComing
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This is officially a Boxing Cold War between Zuffa vs DAZN/Sanctioning Bodies, and it's obvious
- Top Rank joining up with DAZN
- Golden Boy signing an extension with DAZN
- Oscar De La Hoya doing an interview recently that he regrets selling the Ring to Turki
- Frank Warren suing Turki
- Eddie Hearn personally beefing with Dana White
In that Top Rank DAZN press conference, they went to each fighter and was like "So how much is the Sanctioning Body belts important to you??"
In Golden Boy's Barboza/Sims press conference, they asked the same thing
All I can say is... about damn time
Hate to beat a dead horse, but people have been saying this for YEARS. Just all join forces to kill all the outside noise. The funny thing is that if all the promotional companies keep their word that they would collaborate to make the biggest fights possible... this Muhammad Ali legislation case could be a useless effort by Zuffa, and Zuffa would disintegrate within a couple of years. But it's up to them
