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Originally Posted by travrosty
the top boxers and promoters like the current system, but fans don't. they want the top boxers matched up each month so they can watch a great card.
ufc has good matchups for what they do, and even the undercard has championship bouts and pretty good matchups. The fans want boxing to do the same, but unless it makes $ sense for the promoters to do it, they won't.
the ufc owns and issues their own championships and belts, so they can force whoever they want to fight each month. ufc makes the money for the pay per views, so if the belt switches hands, it is still within the ufc.
if a big belt switches hands from one boxing promoter's fighter to another boxing promoters fighter, a large chunk of $ switches too, then that promoter and fighter stand to lose money so the great matchups aren't always made.
If boxing were structured like the ufc, then mayweather and pacquiao would have fought a couple years ago and might have had a rematch or two already. There are several problems with the way boxing is set up but i wish the people in control would at least try to fix one of them at a time. The last heavyweight fight with a top name on regular free tv as far as i can remember was mike tyson versus buster mathis jr. on fox in 1995. time flies.
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The only way for that to work would be for a monopoly to be established. Dana White essentially drove all other major organizations out of business. With King and Arum becoming elderly, Golden Boy is trying their damndest to do that right now.
I can't say I am rooting for them, to be honest.