Comiing Innovations In Boxing?

[The Old LefHook]

This is a tough one, boys. Get your prognostification caps on. We do not know which innovations we will be alive for, but we do believe innovations are coming, and big ones.

One innovation which is bound to come is a loosening up of what is permitted with the hands. Boxing can steal the spinning backfist cleanly from MMA, and should. It is their most exciting move. Why not have it, since there is a war with that sport? They already have all the boxing moves permissible. Why? Because they stole them from boxing. Time to steal back.

Keep it pure boxing, however, by allowing only hand strikes, so it does not turn into kickboxing, a sport which already had its chance in the west and does not fly very high here.

The problem with establishing a boxers' version of the spinning backfist is that there can be a lot of error in the aim. Ensuring that the gloved portion of the arm/hand does the actual striking is the difficulty.

Every business changes and adapts, or it dies. Boxing has been experiencing slow death throes for a long time. Are there more innovations that might slow or stop the demise altogether, or is the sport simply doomed as an anachronism?

[Bundana]

Every business changes and adapts, or it dies. Boxing has been experiencing slow death throes for a long time. Are there more innovations that might slow or stop the demise altogether, or is the sport simply doomed as an anachronism?

I think you are looking at this from an American perspective only. In other parts of the world, boxing is doing fine.

[Eff Pandas]

I think a coming innovation to boxing will be VR technology. I think VR technology will be all encompassing in the next 20yrs+. I think with all the anti-violent sports talk & CTI type sh^t the door will be closing on many aggressive sports as we know them. Boxing will surely be one. Violent sports won't die as dummies love to talk about, but I do believe they will be altered to a safer version

So I suspect we will eventually be watching fighting in VR environments that would allow for beyond current boxing levels of injuries if not to a point of a "VR death" without any real injuries outside the VR world. Would allow for more active fighters & more reasonable turnarounds on events if not making it possible to have days/a week of a tournament each week at various locations around the globe in theory.

[QueensburyRules]

--- if boxing actually enforced their own rules and had competent commishes, abc orgs, refs and judges and eliminated the idiocy of the 10 point must system of crookery, they'd still be the # 1 sport.

They could also bring back London Prize Ring Rules as a more scientific and elementary natural sport while disallowing deliberate defensive pratfalls to buy time.

[Anthony342]

They'll probably also allow the Superman Punch.

[OCPancho]

Please, no spinning back fists .

I say, extend the fights to 13 rounds on all world title fights .
Knock the ring size down to 18 by 18 please. Freaking 20 by 20 looks like a swimming pool .
If everyone Floyd their way to a 12-rd decision, boxing would die.
Make it 13 rounds and smaller ring. So, the runner has a better chance of getting stopped late in the fight .

Train the freaking refs to allow inside fighting. Train them how to untangle held up hands instead of constantly breaking them. Have them go through Carlos Padilla ref training school . Bayless is absolutely the worst referee when it comes to inside fighting. He should stick to amateur boxing . I can't believe this fool is even allowed to do all that sh8. Ray Arcel would have hit him with a stool .

[The Old LefHook]

Acceptable possible innovations:

Six oz. gloves: 8x8 ft. ring: fight to the finish: spinning backfist: hammerfist: cross divisional matches where, for instance, two featherweights might be matched simultaneously against a heavyweight, and other oddball matchups in this vein: man against kangaroo is almost a must: Tag team matches such as are found in rassling: cross-divisional tag team matches could again be of great interest

In the fight to the finish format fancy Dans can simply stay home, since they will not be knocking anyone out. Of course the Mayweathers of the boxing world could still hope to administer such a prolonged drubbing without remission that the opponent simply throws his hands in the air and cries no mas, tired of being tapped over and over.

Unacceptable possible innovations:

Ten & twelve oz. gloves: ten round championship fights: points for defense: points for style: points for anything, since all fights are to the finish.

Fancy Dan hit and don't get hit is fine, as long as you can do it until the other man gives up or the ref or the corner is forced to intervene with a towel; cuz you can't win a decision under the new rules, cuz.

What am I leaving out? Ah!

Of course there are cross-divisonal, cross-sexual and even cross-sport contests as well. How interesting it would have been to see how Klitschko fared against a pair of featherweights who were allowed to kick him. It doesn't have to be a pair. Klit could be fighting a whole team of midgets, females or any combination of them. The midgets already stand below his waist. They had better not duck beneath his knees, though, or they could receive a warning from the ref.

In fact, the only fight left for Mayweather was already spoilt when Rhonda Roussey got stomped. Floyd could have been on the cutting edge of history again if she had stayed an unbeaten monster. The match would be ridiculed too heavily now, and would have been highly ridiculed anyway, and does not make sense anymore. At one time it would have made great sense. Floyd would not have needed to be officially restricted to boxing, since any wrestling moves he was able to learn in a short time are not likely to do him much good against the female phenom anyway. Rassling is not where he would want to be in that match.

[Rockin']

In amateur boxing, for these millennial pungtangs, each neutral corner will be considered a 'safe space' where no punches are to be thrown. These zones will be marked in red on the canvas. The 'safe space' will be marked by a 3 foot radius coming from the corner, If a fighter is in this 'space' and the opposing boxer punches him, that fighter will be handcuffed and shackled and taken directly to jail. Where the fighter will be used by corporate giants to make goods to sell to the public, while paying the now retired fighter pennies on the dollar for his labor.

[The Old LefHook]

Do we want to civilize or primitivize boxing? I say the latter.

[JAB5239]

--- if boxing actually enforced their own rules and had competent commishes, abc orgs, refs and judges and eliminated the idiocy of the 10 point must system of crookery, they'd still be the # 1 sport.

They could also bring back London Prize Ring Rules as a more scientific and elementary natural sport while disallowing deliberate defensive pratfalls to buy time.

Agree and disagree at the same time. A whole round can be changed by one punch. Determining the winner of each round (while subjective) is far more complex than "that guy was more aggressive. Or what have you. Boxing isn't a home run derby. It's a sport like chess. A battle of strategy. This is why so many fights starts off looking like closer fights than they are. McGegegor Floyd for instance.