How to Fix Boxing? (Too Many Belts)

Too many belts in boxing! That is undoubtedly the most repeated complaint about the sport as a whole. Why do we have 4 "major" championship belts in each boxing division? How can we fix Boxing? CanTurki Al-Sheikh help boxing as a whole in addition to bringing us the big fights that fans most want to see?
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This episode of Rummy's Corner was written, narrated, and produced by Geoffrey Ciani (aka - Rummy).
How to Fix Professional Boxing? (Too Many Belts)

[@13bitches]

My biggest issue with boxing actually is inactivity. The biggest names in the sport fighting only once a year and probably on a expensive PPV is a huge problem

[@scw1980]

That is a great point as well!

[@irobot7016]

Also not being able to watch the ppv you purchased the very next day. Not even a 24 hr thing smh after you spend 90 bucks on it 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@CasterShellz]

Agreed. Thurman is main eventing a PPV and he's only fought twice in over 6 years.

[@matthew-jy5jp]

So you think fighters should get more brain damage more than one time a year ? I bet those fighters who fight today are very happy you don't control the sport. You do realize the fighters from the past that fought consecutive times a year sometimes 5 or 6 times a year have massive brain damage now.

[@Fury851]

Yeah it's a terrible problem also. But with one belt they would be forced to fight more often

[@sob1994]

Not enforcing mandatory challengers is a big problem.

[@somah1470]

The problem is exact with the football: The managements just destroying the sport with financial risk avoidance.

[@rizzmatic392]

U wanna see Benavides vs canelo ? Cause I do !!!

[@davidmccann9811]

Absolutely, fighting to get a top 10 ranking is effectively a waste of time.

[@The24KaratBlack]

Exxxxxactly.......& the IBF is the least of the evils

[@DJ_Joe_DC]

Granted in some cases, but in others it can put the breaks on unifications! It’s so convoluted

[@joris1454]

- Too many belts. System doesnt work and has zero value - too many weight classes - afraid to lose their 0's, like losing is the worst thing to happen

[@thegoat8447]

don't forget the different promotions stopping fights from happenning

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

the issue isn't the fighters being afraid it's that boxing is a business, and in order to be a marketable product boxers have to compete with eachother. an undefeated fighter is significantly easier to sell, and without sh*tting on mayweather too much ever since he retired a lot of people have followed his example. because of that boxers without their 0 are looked over (unless they're already well established in the sport), and boxers with their 0 are carefully managed by their promoters in order to maximise their profitability. they aren't afraid of losing their reputation they're worried about losing their jobs, imagine if you worked in a factory and whoever made the least items in one day got sacked, it sucks

[@unodragon2294]

Yep a channel called tjlovesfight (or something) has made a video about it​@@aldrichunfaithful3589

[@zarulariff1]

@@aldrichunfaithful3589 facts

[@iampage2089]

@@aldrichunfaithful3589finally someone who understands

[@thisislilraskal]

Lately I've noticed Mauricio Suleiman's blatant nepotism when he brings his son along to fights and accompanied him to the ring to perform official duties. WBC is pretty much a crime family

[@catootac]

Mauricio definitely wants to keep it in the family. After all, he took over the job from his father José. Just like Gilberto Mendoza Jr took over the WBA from his father. It's almost as if there's actually a lot of money to be made running these 'non-profit' organisations.

[@199019852007]

It’s like watching the godfather

[@ShitWrangler]

We Be Crooks

[@naswiipp]

The IBF never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@AustinSauce3]

The IBf? That Pygmy thing over there?

[@barrybarnes96]

They don't even have a shine box ffs.

[@flexefelux13]

I understood that reference

[@Wopstar-777]

We don't encourage that talk at the table

[@daleperry7759]

I don't want to bash any individual/organisation. But there is so much greed and corruption. If I was to go through the problems with each head of board in sanctioning and promotion the video essay would put a hardcore fan to sleep. Thank you, Rummy, for making it easier. Bless you for your hard work in simplifying it.

[@2ndEditionBryce]

I just realized that it was Rummy that cursed the unification bout.

[@Kofz89]

😩😩😩😩😅😅

[@myrdin9216]

Weigh ins should be the day of the fight. It would eliminate ridiculous dehydrating and the situation when fighters are easily in different weight categories during the fight.

[@steveswangler6373]

The weigh in never made sense to me. Several days, a week ir longer before a fight? Thats just stupid.

[@scottloveday1562]

That is so very true!

[@RD-wg9em]

The problem is fighters would still cut to gain a competitive advantage which would have adverse health impacts. I think they need to take a look at what weights this fighters are rehydrating to and adjust the weight classes accordingly. That way you can have a weigh in before the fight and on the day, and know that fighters in that class aren’t dehydrating themselves

[@brentstephens4081]

"Help us Turkey al sheek, your our only hope".. This gave me a chuckle. It is however the only possible way things will change. I do like your proposal though.. god it'd be good to see a one belt champion to rule them all!

[@bluesz1bluesz17]

I literally started typing the same thing as you said that Turki backed by the Saudi state, to buy out all the sanctioning bodies, to abolish all the belt's, create one world rankings, one belt. This would also make Continental championships like the European championship far more important like they used to be when being a continental champ meant something.

[@ChildSpaceMethod]

With enough money, they don't need to buy out four belts, they can create a new one with such attractive conditions that it quickly becomes the de facto "belt to rule them all."

[@ADAM_CAMMA]

@@ChildSpaceMethodi think that creating a new organisation defeats the purpose and just further dirties the water. Buying out the 4 organisations and unifying them realigns the history of the WBC and WBA and merges the history of WBO and IBF.

[@luckyrockmore2796]

Solve the issue of "human greed"

[@ronjames7953]

As much as I hate seeing boxing leaving Vegas for Saudi Arabia, I love that we are finally getting some of the matches we want.

[@seebarry4068]

In UFC, you know who the champion is. There is no doubt. There is a discussion around who beats the champion always, but there is no doubt who is champion.

[@g-man4297]

You can't compare the UFC to boxing, UFC is one promotional company that doesn't represent all MMA, BOXING IS MANY PROMOTIONAL COMPANYS, WHO ARE GOVERNED BY 4 SEPERATE MAJOR SANCTIONING BODIES.

[@chonqmonk]

Mostly yes, but then there is the "Interim" crap; like Jon Jones being given Stipe (off a bad KO loss + retirement) instead of making the "Interim Champ" his mandatory is almost as dumb as SlapFight.

[@ludovicartu4239]

There is also several MMA world champions with several federations (Bellator, One, PFL etc...)

[@Kieray]

The thing is about mma is that sure there’s a ton of promotions like belletor and one but there’s only one premier organization that every mma fighter dreams of competing in and that’s the ufc so their champions are de facto the best of the best. Being the ufc champion is being the world champion none of the other champions actually hold as much weight as the ufc one. Is being the cage fighters world champion or the belletor world champion the same as the ufc champion ask Micheal Chandler or Paddy Pimblett the closest comparison to those belts would be a regional or international belts like the British or commonwealth belts. Who’s the best boxer in each weight class idk we have multiple champs and they actively avoid each other most of the time. Who’s the best mma fighter in each weight class well that’s the ufc champ most of the time and they have to defend their belt against the best all the time and if there’s another fighter who looks good in another promotion the ufc will snap them up and if they are good enough they will fight the ufc champion of their division, the champ can’t duck them look at Justin Geathje or Micheal Chandler In mma the best fight the best at each stage from regional promotions to the ufc it’s why losses don’t affect mma fighters the same as boxers. You can still be a huge star in the ufc or mma in general while losing some fights look at the fighters I named in boxing it seems like you lose a couple of fights now and your a bum. Look at Deontay Wilder he made it to 42 and 0 before he had a loss and it was his 41st fight when he fought a ex champion and that’s not out of place in boxing. In mma that type of record is almost unthinkable in mma people think Khabib Nurmagomedov’s record of 29 and 0 is practically untouchable to compare Khabib fought his first ex champion on fight 22 of his pro career and only his 6th fight in the promotion. In summary I think that’s one of the big problems in boxing you have 4 belts and unless the stars align no undisputed champ and each boxer and promotion and even the sanctioning bodies have no incentives to risk losing their belt to become undisputed

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

You are forgetting that in MMA there are many other promoters besides the UFC, the only difference from boxing is that since they are less famous they are easier to ignore

[@brusk3978]

First ESPN “Tuesday night fights” Follow by Friday night fight 😢 We lost HBO after dark Also showtime sport Dazn cut down boxing content to a minimum… What are we gonna do with no media

[@remy12]

Oh man I miss those days!! You could watch some great boxing and not have to blow your money on PPV.

[@ronfroehlich4697]

I loved Tuesday Night Fights; that's what really made me a boxing fan. I totally agree that boxing's lack of visibility has greatly diminished it's cultural significance in America.

[@justbecause4042]

Exactly. How can you keep fans, and get new ones if no can watch. Pay per view fights in this economy, that wouldn’t have been HBO undercards back in the day.

[@scottkessel952]

DAZN has been so disappointing. When it first started was like $100/yr and no PPV. Now $225/yr with PPV that has ads on it

[@gardensaladdude90]

Saudi is making their own undisputed belt for when the winners of AJ vs Ngannou and Fury vs Usyk. Now it’s probably circumstantial BUT they DO have the money to make their own division and to make it 10x more valuable than the other organizations, thus making it the only one people would want forcing them to fight each other

[@CasterShellz]

It's also the fact that so many commissions and so many belts, on top of all of the rival promotional companies, breeds inactivity. The WBC and PBC worked together to allow Jermall Charlo to keep the WBC middleweight championship for close to THREE years without the threat of being stripped or enforcing a bout with his mandatory challenger and current interim WBC middleweight champion, Carlos Adames. Meanwhile, middleweight, historically the 2nd glamour division in boxing after heavyweight, is floundering in the aftermath due to the inactivity after following GGG's retirement and Canelo moving up in weight. Too many belts + "pay for play" + the lack of true enforcement of the rankings to create fights amongst top contenders = inactive sport and lowered fan interest / financial failure.

[@Theactivepsychos]

Too many rematches. Always have to fight a top ten if you’re a champ. Title holders have to meet another title holder within a year of becoming champ.

[@AnteBoss]

Usyk vs Fury took 2 years to realise, screwing unpopular fighters like Hrgovic who are now waiting in their 3rd year for title shot, and now they changed their mind and want 2 fights, meaning Hrgovic should wait another year, because why? Fury is popular, this is problem, not Hrgovic. Mandatories need to be enforced, Fury-vs Usyk should have happened 2 years ago. Its on them. Also if there was no mandatories, AJ would have never lost to Usyk, and Usyk would have never been champion.

[@Superwavy]

Immediate Unifications are not realistic because of Mandatory Defenses

[@chonqmonk]

@@Superwavy Mandatory defenses should be against the very best fighter in the weight class, and therefore lead immediately to unification.

[@Fury851]

Rather than forced unification, just have one championship

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

​@@SuperwavyEasy, once two champions have won their first mandatory defense and are available to fight they must do a belt unification

[@Fury851]

Either boxing goes back to one world champion per weight division, or the sport dies out. Each year I gain more interest in UFC and less in boxing. Never thought that would ever happen

[@baseupp12]

Yeah no casual fans don't care about the multiple belts it's the inactivity and lack of top guys fighting often

[@betzalelhughes4546]

NO I like the fact that there are lots of belts as it means much more to be unified or even undisputed champion. The reason boxing is doing badly is because ……. Wait for it ……….. deep breaths😤😤😤 BECAUSE THEY FIGHT ONCE OR TWICE A BLOODY YEAR. That’s why. It makes no difference if there was one belt or if there were a hundred belts if there no one fighting for them then we don’t really have a sport do we? Look at the heavyweight division and you’ll see how slow it is: Usyk: fights once a year Joshua: fights twice or three times a year Fury: fights once or twice a year Zhang: fights twice a year Parker: fights four times a year Wilder: fights once a year Ruiz jr: fights once every two years Hrgovic: fights twice a year So you can see the problem. To give us a division they should all be fighting four or five times a year (so Parker at least is delivering) But THIS is why there aren’t many die hard boxing fans. What is there to be die hard about? You can be a casual fan and not miss anything. Obviously things are getting better with the Saudi money but what’s going to happen between March 8th and the next Saudi card? Will boxers who have been on a Saudi card ever fight in a different country or will they wait it out so we have no boxing for months at a time just to collect the big cash prize? Anyway I’ve said my piece I hope you all agree with me and hopefully boxers (and especially belt holders) can fight more often. Until then it will NEVER be as popular as it used to be.

[@HkFinn83]

It’s all connected. The top fighters fight so rarely because they have the clout to sit on their alphabet title and wait for a money fight. Boxing is the only business where every day is a closing down sale and there’s absolutely nothing gained or cleared up from any card other than a payday for fighters and promoters

[@Lek_2.O]

Too many belts and Too many Os, but less balls.

[@ebrown112]

damn i hope he hears this message. we need to straighten some things out in our sport. i usually don’t believe that one mega-wealthy and altruistic guy is the solution to our problems, but in this case it really seems to be our only hope.

[@sly_tendencies87]

The funniest part is when you referee to them is "NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS" 😂😂😂😂 haven't laughed like that for years

[@ADAM_CAMMA]

😂😂😂 same, he said it in italics, which is a talent

[@livershot940]

Love the Soprano segments ❤

[@RedRock-PlasterPanelPaint]

Thanks for making this video love boxing but this is killing the sport

[@mushroomboxing]

Your on-point usage of Sopranos clips never ceases to make me happy.

[@coasttocoastrecovery975]

Thanks for the after dark entertainment!

[@bargepoled]

Bin the belts. The best fight the best regardless of sanctioning body. Bring in a universal scoring system. Out of competition testing. There, fixed boxing for ya.

[@procerator]

smells like IBO

[@sly_tendencies87]

Always appreciate your views and stances on the state of boxing. I'm happy we're getting the fights we want, but we're forgetting how easy it is to be corrupt.. There isn't even an incentive to fight mandatory opposition.

[@j.d.thompson3505]

I cant believe Ring magazine is no longer in print. I miss my damn subscription. That was how I kept my schedule and rankings straight.

[@steveswangler6373]

With boxing’s checkered history, when I first saw the title of the video, “how to fix boxing” I thought it was a tutorial on how to fix a boxing match lol

[@paultaylor387]

Nice work as always rummy

[@Koalaninja90]

Regarding the fear of the 0 the media created this. A boxer loses once and the media starts talking about retirement and past their best. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy as the boxer is then not worth as much on ppv and then won’t fight again. We need to create a boxing world where losing doesn’t destroy a career.

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

A little accidental fault from Floyd Mayweather which caused fans to only respect Boxers with 0 which caused the Media to treat boxers with or without 0 this way

[@Lskdkjd]

For me personally it is "one" belt above all and that is the title "Peoples Champion". It is very hard to earn but give you a place in the history books.

[@steveswangler6373]

How does it give you a place in the history books? Please give an example of a “people’s champion” that didn’t hold a belt. Because boxing fans are diverse and have varying opinions.

[@barrybarnes96]

I never really cared about belts...I know who the best fighters are...I don't need a belt to tell me.

[@HkFinn83]

@@steveswangler6373yeh mickey ward and gatti are the goats by that definition

[@TY-km8hj]

Rival promoters/networks, lack of mandatory defences and bad rankings (mainly WBC since they always fudge there's) are the biggest issue for me personally

[@cassetoi09]

In my opinion Turki Al-Sheikh has been a much needed kick up the arse for the current promoters, arguably he is the best promotor in boxing today. If anyone can fix it, he can.

[@nickharmer3049]

If only..! Absolutely loved this upload, with the quality editing & ideas. Bless up 👊

[@samuelmahmud1909]

Great video coverage Rummy 💯 What's understood needs not be explained, too many belts and divisions

[@MrRAC420]

Have Top Contendors fight each other, Mandatory, No More Ducking eachother

[@khalidmohak6708]

My guy! Taking on the corrupt titans. Respect Rummy. Back you and keep telling the WBC I'm your huckleberry

[@scottloveday1562]

I think I could more easily stomach four sanctioning bodies if: 1. Their rankings were on merit at Rummy says... 2. Get rid of special belts that are made for special event fights (that one is an obvious)! 3. Get rid of smaller belts like the Intercontinental or European Champ etc. Etc. (Those sorts of things are fine in the amateurs, but absolutely NOT for the pros in my opinion. 4. Try to remove certain channels and promotion companies from only staging fights with the fighters within their own promotion. (That's a BIG one). I mean really it seems as if I somehow stop the corruption of those points, then I allow it in the four sanctioning bodies to an extent... I wonder what the fighters themselves would say - as people who are at the pointy end of the world of boxing?

[@crazybabyentertainment]

Go off Rummy! 💪🏽

[@kumaralanka6735]

I am from Sri lanka. One of your you tube viewer. As a commonwealth country (colonized by British- before the world war 2) our famous sport is Cricket. Previously it was only few trophy 🏆 s. But now so many trophy 🏆 s . Most of them based on only money 💰. And mach fixing is also there....

[@Loveseatlegend]

So I think 4 major titles can work (especially if we cut divisions down) but we must eliminate interim titles and secondary titles, and just use champion in recess in those instances. Other updates: - fix ranking systems - title eliminators that end up being mandatory challengers must be between #1 contender and someone ranked #2-#3. - mandatory unifications after 1 voluntary and 1 mandatory defense. - must face a mandatory after one voluntary unless unifying - for unified champions, start having #1 contenders from those sanctioning bodies fight in eliminators so the champion fights the winner to satisfy both sanctioning bodies. This stops fighters from sitting on rank waiting for a shot while also keeping the division moving.

[@osamashatat]

Another gem, thank you Rummy

[@vantheman1238]

More greatness Rummy ❤🥊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@ThisIsMrJ13]

My main issues: -discriminatory enforcement of mandatory challenges -ranking within the alphabet organizations is horrible -fighters inflating their record to be undefeated and scared to risk losing their “0”

[@asiatic1979]

I didn’t agree with John McCain on a lot of of his political stances, but one thing I did agree with is having one governing body for Boxing. He was fighting hard to establish this before he died. All of these organizations with their different rules and regulations is hurting Boxing and hurting the fan base. There was a time when you knew who the heavyweight champion of the world is, now you can ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers.

[@-Andre-Rodrigues]

Spot on, buddy 👍

[@lancersharpe]

Many journalists should stop saying World Champion unless the Champion is undisputed. In other words unless there is an undisputed champion there is NO World Champion.

[@semyaza555]

It would definitely minimize guys like Teo running around calling themselves twice undisputed.

[@MaccaveliPL]

That only gives more power to the sanctioning bodies. The real champion is the lineal champion, period. Alphabet belts don't matter.

[@UncleBurntApostrophe]

Great discussion point/seeds of solution ideas! Final clip😂

[@Robc2007]

The promoters can refuse to use the belts and set up their own world champion belt, or the Saudi's can pay for fighters to fight under one belt. This will make it commercial difficult for the 4 belts who charge sanctioning fees to remain commercially competitive.

[@Superwavy]

Saudi’s are not good for boxing

[@davidmccann9811]

Ring Magazine did that in the 80s, but it just resulted in yet another belt.

[@semyaza555]

Exactly. This is effectively what other combat sports do.

[@martintuskevicius8084]

Time for Rummy’s annual rant about boxing belts!

[@Camcolito]

I have an idea. With all these different belts, what we need is another belt that is awarded based on a statistical analysis of the various other belts and their relative worth. It could be called ULTIMATE BELT (working title). Then, if a later study later finds flaw with the first result another ULTIMATE PLUS BELT could be given to the new guy so as to keep everything clear and not upset anyone.

[@asmrnaturecat984]

sounds like the ring magazine

[@MaccaveliPL]

WBO was recognized as the major world title in 2007. You had undisputed champs in 2006 holding only 3 major belts: Zab Judah and O'Neil Bell.

[@TY-km8hj]

I feel bad for O'Neil Bell, he legit gets ignored by practically everyone when it comes to the conversation of undisputed cruiserweights. Everyone knows of Evander and Usyk but no one ever mentioned Bell

[@fr0ntend]

Out of the 4 major belts, it makes zero difference which one you have, you're still a world champion. WBA and WBC has longer history than the other two, and fighters typically wants the WBC belt, partly because its more of an "american belt". But its not "better" to have for example WBC over WBO.

[@johnaustin209]

Lies...

[@Amethyst_Friend]

Love it, love it!

[@MattHolst]

Pipe dream indeed. Loved that ending :)

[@rakin7250]

Totally agree with this take. Too many belts ruins boxing.

[@Cainb23]

Agreed. I’m mainly an mma fan and the only thing keeping me from fully crossing over is I hate the four belts thing

[@tonybellick7841]

Turki has boat loads of money he’s done so much already. I think he might have a shot at making boxing great again.

[@pdubhnic]

I was watching the Fury vs Usyk movie trailer aka promo vid last night as it premiered when it occurred to me The Saudis are the future of Professional Boxing. There's no way around it. It's only a matter of time before Those Riyadh Boys realize they can just cut out the middle man and go straight to the fighters themselves to make the best fights which will render all these promotional companies like TopRank,PBC, GoldenBoy, Matchroom etc completely useless. Once the promotional companies and tv networks/apps are out of the equation the smaller things that hinder boxing will die off as well. It's INEVITABLE. 🥊💥 💯

[@94462]

The Saudi's can save boxing, with their limitless money, they can buy out all of the sanctioning bodies and abolish or combine them to make one ultimate belt and hence this problem is solved

[@shambleslongplay3566]

1 belt per sanctioning body and then one extra body that ranks everyone, currently wbc champ isnt rankd in the wba thats the only way to make correct mandatory calls. And no more jumping up 70 ranks a week before announcing they are the mandatory for current protected title holder.

[@bdfgdfghdfhgfitdfyutdtydry]

I'd say corruption and incompetent judges is the biggest problem in boxing. But that has a lot to do with sanctioning mafias too.

[@JKyle-ii1mz]

The WBA is the original and still my favorite. To me, the only one that matters. With that being said, I agree that Turki Al-Sheikh is the only man who can fix all this and I hope that he does. Cheers!

[@asmrnaturecat984]

it is not and one of the first to corrupt The ring magazine should matter the most.

[@TechnoLawyer]

Kudos to the Saudis if they continue helping make the fights, put on good cards, help sort this crap out. I miss the days of the guys who would fight anyone. Who was the last HW like that? I think it was Evander Holyfield. That’s how long ago it was.

[@slamduncproductions3198]

Boxing is the only sport I’ve ever seen where you can be in the top ten in the world, without being talented enough to be in the top ten.

[@michaelteret4763]

I vote for putting Rummy in charge of the entire sport/industry.

[@BoostlessJoe]

simple: Defend or vacate

[@woflmanjoe642]

THANK YOU!!! YES, YES, AND F'IN YES!!!!

[@kufujitsu]

Too many belts with not enough TV dates - it leads to what we've got at the moment - long periods of inactivity while the champions wait for a TV date.

[@Elvathar]

One world championbelt per division, less weightclasses and it solves 90% of the problems. Only domestic level belts are allowed aside from the one championship belt, like European, brittisch, North America etc.

[@ChuckNorris-eq2ce]

Imo first fix the rules: -get rid of hugging, 3 initiated hugs point deduction, 9 DQ. And without it the boxing is suddenly the most attractive combat sport 🎉🎉🎉 -make the other rules clear and make it clear when one supercedes the other, clear rules without referee's estimation -forbid BS fights like top 10 vs top 300, with some max difference in ranking -make official rankings (but let the sanctioning bodies pick their top 15 from the top 50 of the official rankings)

[@D-OveRMinD]

Yo, Rummy got mad there. "They're fucking it all up!"

[@mrtuber3491]

The 4 belts once every 4 years come together to make their champions fight each other to have an undisputed champion like the Olympics or Soccer World Cup. Then we wait another 4 years until it happens again.

[@thejamnasium6447]

I'd consider myself a pretty heavy boxing fan but even I sometimes find myself looking at a list of these belt holders in some divisions and being like... "WHO!?"

[@Fritz973]

WBO was called WBogus when it first came around in the boxing magazines but its probably the least annoying of the 4 now, WBA is the worst with its regular champion crap, WBC also has it horrendous belts like Franchise and came up wirh Bridgerweight! and the IBF is too strip happy.

[@J0HNJ0RDAN]

A lot of the success the UFC, and MMA in general, has had is largely due to the structure of the sport. A lot of what the UFC is charged with (being a monopoly, etc.) is why there is better matchmaking. Boxing is not an inferior sport, it's just the business model.

[@Illstatefishing]

I thought the title of your video was a double entendre 💰 😆

[@stephanierae9703]

Amen Rummy

[@McBoggler]

Nailed it

[@livurdreamz]

One belt per weight class... keep the competition honest and hungry...no ducking excuses..more money and hype + relevance in matchups...

[@soundclownmusic]

The ufc has proven concept on how boxing should run its rankings

[@So1asola]

I do understand, but perhaps I’ve romanticised the idea of becoming undisputed. I’m not sure why, but the idea of a champion fighting other champions to become the ‘champion of champions’ appeals to me

[@rjgbass]

Last night i watched the Barrera-Tapia fight, and this topic was a major conversation piece because Barrera hadn't held a belt in a while but was still lineal at featherweight, and the IBF stripped Tapia. IBF wanted Tapia to pay $20,000 just so they could discuss if he could hold the belt, and he told them to kick rocks. HBO did a whole segment on it, with B-hop, Roy and Vernon talking about why fighters feel they need the belts. Some things never change.

[@CaptainScarBeard]

I honestly don't mind the four belts or the amount of weight classes. I just wish unification fights happened a bit more and it wasn't so obviously pay to play. I hate the regular, silver, intercontinental titles though. It would be cool if more regions had proper regional titles like the British titles, and that they were treated with more prestige.

[@gm95265]

We already have one belt above the others. The Ring Magazine belt is normally worn by the true top dog.

[@ToonsGoofyMemes]

I think 9 divisions, but having a weight limit is also a good idea.

[@RealBallsofSteel]

In Myanmar, they have one professional Lethwei league, and therefore one national champion at any time.

[@gnayr1305]

Absolutely loved all of the pop culture references. 😉

[@magana107]

Part of the problem and reason there are 4 organizations is that it’s harder to corrupt all of them then just one. The issue should be tightening the belt on the organizations so that they only get fees when their champions fight thus moving the roster along and no rematch clauses, till the loser wins at least two other fights. I know there are still holes with this theory but it’s a start. Also Saudis are trying to buy the ring magazine belt and make that to only belt that matters

[@ambrosiad1588]

Yes, just yes do it turki al sheikh youre already credited with sorting out a load of political stalemates in boxing and a bit of a boxing fans hero, but this would make you a boxing legend

[@ryklatortuga4146]

Left Hook Larry agrees with you Rummy!

[@JohnSmith-cs7jg]

Fantastic idea!! Never gonna happen.

[@drewmalesky9869]

What timing 😂😂😂😂 any thoughts on "the cut"

[@ramiroavila9374]

I actually like the four belts because a lot of guys don’t get a break so they don’t or would never end up fighting for a championship if it was just one individual belt and I watch boxing at least once a week if not more so I’d say I’m a diehard fan

[@killerbeed01]

My dream is for him to buy out all the organizations and hold a boxing super series tournament, for each weight class to crown one champion.

[@PhflyDan1]

Ha! We CAN dream Rummy...

[@keenynthewise]

There is 2,000 fighters worldwide that 220ish per weight class- there has to be multiple belt/sanctioning bodies to keep the ranking system going. They are place holders, and keep the boxing industry honest so Jon cash cows from Eastern Europe and Africa can get a title shot if they EARN It working their way up. Otherwise, champions will have to fight 10 times a year and once a cash cow gets the belt and babysits it all the other potential contenders don’t get a shot. Also, the espn/ring rankings are based on THOSE BELTS AND WHOS WON THEM 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@isaiahflagler4484]

Thank You So Much For This Video. I Absolutely, and Totally Agree because #1. They Have Too Many Championship Belts. #2. Boxing Fans Only Get to See 3 Maybe 4 Fight Within a Year. #3. In Every Division of Boxing They Need Make More Top 10 Rank Contenders Fight More Often Even If Their Just Tune Up Fights. #4. Now Even Though MMA Is Gaining More Popularity It's a Good Idea To Have MMA Fighters Compete in Boxing Matches. Real Talk.!!!

[@reptilian_geneticist]

No... The belts aren't the problem... Champions only fighting once per year and practically every fight having a rematch claus is THE PROBLEM 💯