How sad is heavyweight boxing? Too many belts, too many titles, too much corruption and not enough incentive for people to get involved anymore. Now it’s all UFC that has taken over. Sometimes I wish I was alive and able to digest being a boxing fan in the 70s leading into the 80s and then of course the 80s leading into the 90s. The heavyweight boxing division is so pathetic that our attention is literally captured by this fight. Will someone please unify these titles and just keep it under one federation and one ranking system? not the ultimate solution, but at least it would be a good start to fixing what’s wrong with boxing.
Philip
Boxing is certainly at a low. At least I am just about old enough to remember boxing in the 80s and 90s when I started to get into it.
These days there are 19 weight classes with 4 major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO) and there's even more of them too (IBO, WBF, IBC etc.) but no one counts those. You'd think they'd be a maximum of 76 different people across the weight classes that can call themselves a World Champion of a recognized sanctioning body but the number is actually higher - WBA calls their Champion the 'Super Champion', what we'd previously known as the number 1 contender is now the 'regular world champion' and what was previously known as the number 2 contender is now the 'Interim World Champion'!! I can't remember but the WBC and WBO probably does that same crap. But with all of that the number of supposed World Championships is probably closer to 100 LOL
All the drug scandals in the sport are pretty much brushed under the carpet...they like to call them 'adverse findings' as the technical term. All the big names in recent years have been caught with PEDs in their system and forgiven or forgotten - Tyson Fury, Canelo Alverez, Billy Joe Saunders, Dillian Whyte, Luis Otiz, Jerome Miller, Connor Benn etc. Most of the top fighters want to protect their records instead of fighting the best.
There's a couple of fighters I like to follow like Usyk, Crawford, Inoe and Bivol but for the most part I'm fed up of the scene now and otherwise just watch stuff from 70s, 80s and 90s....and don't get me started about the corrupt judges!