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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3749451, member: 289"] It was a classic 'Guy-you've-heard-of' vs. 'Guy-you-haven't-heard-of' bout that boxing gives us too much of. That plus all the 'TBA's plus four alphabet soup 'ruling bodies' and split divisions the means the sport attracts casual fans or general sports fans only occasionally. If there's a fight everybody wants to see, such as Mayweather-Pacquiao or now Crawford-Spence, it has to 'marinate' for a while or the decision-makers, (the boxer, his trainer and manager, the promoter the ruling bodies, the networks have to get over their feuds and figure out the money before it can happen. In the meantime we get the best fighter in the world vs. a guy who forgot how to throw a punch and gave up on his chair. (He must be real popular back in Turkey right now - and the big Chinese guy must have fans in his country wondering if they want to board that train as well.) And other sports, including MMA, which i don't care for but have to admit is better run, suck in frustrated boxing fans. I'll repeat my oft-made suggestion: have the networks get together to form an annual tournament for the championship in each of 10 divisions, (fly, bantam, feather, light, welter, middle, light heavy, middle heavy, heavy and super-heavy), featuring the 8 best fighters in each division. The quarter-finals would be in the spring, the semis in the summer and the finals in the fall, putting boxing on the annual sports calendar. Fights would come when the public wants to see them. Guys like Crawford and Spence might meet each other each year for several years in a row. The current decision-makers would probably hold themselves out of this at the beginning to protect their power but the public would love it and so that's where the fame and the fortune would be obtainable in the future. if you build it, they will come. [/QUOTE]

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