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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3226243, member: 289"]
Those are the three problems as I see it.
1) The inmates run the asylum- no central control to assure that the public gets the best matches.
2) Worship of the undefeated record. All that means is that you have yet to find out how you can lose, (see Joshua) and what to do aobut it. 
3) The championships are cross-cut: junior and super divisions with four different sanctioning bodies. Max Kellerman said to look at them like bowls games in the old days of college football. I prefer the playoff.

in fact, I'd like the networks, (the only ones who could do this), to get together to standardize the divisions, (I'd chose 10: the traditional 8 with what i'd call Middle heavyweight instead of cruiserweight and Super Heavyweight for the biggest fighters). then select the top 8 fighters in the world in each division to be in a playoff for the yearly title, with the quarterfinals in the spring, the semis in the summer and the finals in the fall. That puts boxing on the sports calendar on a regular basis and pits the best fighters against each other. Some may chose not to participate at first but I think this event would capture the public's attention more than what they try to put together on their own and eventually everybody would be involved because that's what people would care about and that's where the money would be.
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