Chronology of 90's Pound for Pound Race

[Willie Pep 229]

The problem with this is that we end up with inflated rankings, which encourages mismatches. This also impacts a fighter's legacy, being granted undeserved credit for defeating a "#1" ranked opponent who was ranked for the purpose of elevating their career to begin with.

In a perfect world the best would fight the best and on the basis of elimination the last man standing gets the title shot. Unfortunately boxing has a long history of corruption. When the mob got pushed out of the sport the corruption was taken over by sanctioning bodies, promoters and networks.

Both sentiments are true, all true! But are based on that call for fairness.

You have two choices to get to where you want it to be, you either turn the game into professional boxing and make it a monopoly like MLB, the NFL, or the NBA, or you make it a government controlled profession.

If you make it the former, you better unionize the fighters real quick or they will get abused (see the history of baseball); if you make it the latter, well then it is just more socialism, just more denial of individual enterprise.

Furthermore if you create some form of a 'fair league' you will likely force fighters to fight to a schedule they don't want, fight men they don't want to fight, and fight in locations they don't want to fight at. Such is the plight of basketball players, but I feel confident you agree with me that a fighter brings much more of himself to a fight then a basketball player brings to a game. The basketball player merely risks the humiliation of defeat, fighters place life and limb on the line and IMHO shouldn't, in any manner, be coerced as to when, who, or where they do that.

Yes, mismatches are truly the great wrong of the current free enterprise system, I can offer no argument here. It is a true wrong always on the verge of tragedy.

But in regards to inflated credit or legacy they are unimportant except to fans like us.

P.S. Ghost, I realize I am really out on a limb here, not sure I feel a true embracing of what I am arguing, (just thinking out loud) but I do know I don't want to see prize fighting run like the NFL.

[QueensburyRules]

Both sentiments are true, all true! But are based on that call for fairness.

You have two choices to get to where you want it to be, you either turn the game into professional boxing and make it a monopoly like MLB, the NFL, or the NBA, or you make it a government controlled profession.

If you make it the former, you better unionize the fighters real quick or they will get abused (see the history of baseball); if you make it the latter, well then it is just more socialism, just more denial of individual enterprise.

Furthermore if you create some form of a 'fair league' you will likely force fighters to fight to a schedule they don't want, fight men they don't want to fight, and fight in locations they don't want to fight at. Such is the plight of basketball players, but I feel confident you agree with me that a fighter brings much more of himself to a fight then a basketball player brings to a game. The basketball player merely risks the humiliation of defeat, fighters place life and limb on the line and IMHO shouldn't, in any manner, be coerced as to when, who, or where they do that.

Yes, mismatches are truly the great wrong of the current free enterprise system, I can offer no argument here. It is a true wrong always on the verge of tragedy.

But in regards to inflated credit or legacy they are unimportant except to fans like us.

P.S. Ghost, I realize I am really out on a limb here, not sure I feel a true embracing of what I am arguing, (just thinking out loud) but I do know I don't want to see prize fighting run like the NFL.

- -Cowboys a 501 nonprofit and maybe others too.

All pro sports dirty as their sponsors and the fans that watch them.

Boxing is different in that it's one on one stripped just above naked in a tiny field of play.

Transgressions stand out, yet still half the viewers don't see them while others deny.

Officating is deliberately nontransparent, and most the $ made off the books in the bets.

Won't be Fixxed in the foreseeable future, yet fans as moths to flames.