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Promoter Eddie Hearn says Turki Alalshikh and Dana White’s plan to have one champion per division in your complete sport would forestall many fighters from getting the chance to combat for a belt. Turki and White’s plan isn’t a repair to avoid wasting the game. It’s going to make it worse.
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Profession Freeze
With only one champion, it might take endlessly for contenders to get title photographs, particularly if there are repeated rematches like we’re seeing with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. The contenders’ careers are frozen whereas ready to get their shot at a title, they age, they usually miss out.
Turki’s thought of getting one champion per weight division will stunt the game, stopping many fighters from preventing for belts and capturing them. What may additional harm the game is permitting fighters to maneuver up a number of divisions to skip the road to combat for a world title with out competing in that weight class.
Line Bounce
That’s what Turki is establishing for Terence Crawford to maneuver up from 154 to leap forward of the contenders at 168 to problem Canelo Alvarez for his WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight titles. It’s simply so unfair to the fighters that compete at 168. If Turki continues to do stuff like that sooner or later, having one belt per division goes to be most cancers for the fighters that compete in his league. The fighters are presupposed to be all equal, however as we see right here, some are extra equal than others. Will this be the norm for Turki’s new league?
“One belt in boxing isn’t revolutionary. It’s been discussed many times. Until now, we haven’t had the financial firepower to make that happen until now,” mentioned Eddie Hearn to Combat Hub TV, reacting to Turki Alalshikh and Dana White’s plan for only one belt per division within the sport.
Turki has the cash to attempt to change the game in order that there’s one belt, his, for a weight class, nevertheless it’s unrealistic with out the 4 sanctioning our bodies going out of enterprise. It could require not solely that, but additionally for all of the promoters exterior his firm to surrender.
The one factor Turki and Dana White can do is fragment the game extra, with their league. They’ll possible goal the proficient fighters that different promoters develop, letting them do the onerous work, after which providing them huge cash to return over to their league.
In different phrases, they might be like wolves, watching fighters exterior of their firm and seeking to deliver them over. Even doing that, they might fail to create one belt that’s acknowledged as the one one. The game can be simply as fragmented as it’s now. It simply makes me assume these guys don’t have clue one.
Title Combat?
“I wouldn’t underestimate the worth of the world championship belt, the 4 belts [IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO] to a fighter. The legacy and the historical past that comes behind, and the truth that their heroes had these belts round their waist.
“Additionally, generally when there’s just one champion, different folks don’t actually get a chance to combat for a world championship belt. I’m actually a giant believer to find out who the perfect is. So, if there’s a means to try this, I’m for it as properly.
“I don’t think it’s [boxing] broken, but when people talk about a fix, it’s certainly not a quick fix. With His Excellency and his financial firepower, maybe that can happen in time,” mentioned Hearn.
