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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4121968, member: 289"] With the SU basketball season foundering I thought I'll look at ESPN's boxing page to see if there are any interesting bouts coming up. Nope: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/12508267/boxing-fight-schedule[/URL] [URL="https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/21675272/divisional-rankings-best-top-10-fighters-per-division"]Divisional rankings: Gilberto Ramirez keeps climbing the light heavyweight rankings[/URL] (They haven't even bothered to update this since the fall.) This sport is the worst for giving fans what they want. The next opponent for virtually every contender in every division is "TBA". Either that or the date is TBA. As a casual fan, I see nothing but bouts between fighters I've never heard of or between one guy I've heard of and one guy I haven't. The sport has been cross-shredded by too many alphabet soup 'ruling bodies', (meaning businesses that make money by sanctioning fights as championship fights so they can be advertised as such), split divisions, (same purpose), and the tangled web of managers, promoters and networks what often refuse to deal with each other. I'd love to see the major media outlets get together to re-establish the traditional full divisions, (I'd include the cruiserweights but call them "middle heavyweights" and create a new "super-heavyweight divisions for the guys the size of basketball players), and have an annual tournament to determine the champion of each. That could revitalize interest in the sport. if the public preferred that, as I think they would, those who refuse to participate would have to come around because that's where the money would be. Boxing would then be on the sports calendar with annual events: the quarter-finals in the spring, the semi-finals in the summer and the finals, on pay-per-view, in the fall. For now, I guess I'll be watching golf to get my mind off of basketball. [/QUOTE]

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