US Tomato Can
27th November 2007, 07:40 AM
WBA - We Be Asking. We be asking for purses and trying to get whoever they can in their fold with a name to make themselves prominent.
WBC- We be Collecting. The infamous sanction started by Jose Suliaman now making prmonent the battle for interim titles and the status of interim champ in which you can bea champion and never lift a glove to defend it. Even better an automatic chance at the presumably more prominent WBC title. We be collecting indeed.
IBF - I be felonious. In between investigations by the CIA and FBI for rankings fixing. IBF factually proved it too. IBF has told Top Rank that if Marquez's bout with Chi was not a WBC eliminator then they would put Marquez back to his old ranking. Only problem with that is, they shouldn't have taken him out to begin with.
The organization never notified Top Rank that they were to begin negotiations for a Tapia-Marquez bout, in fact it was on August 27th that they found out that Marquez had been expunged from the ratings. Which handily just happened to be 60 days from when Tapia's mandatory defense was due on October 27th. The IBF gives notice of it's mandatory defenses being due, 60 days in advance.
WBO - Worthless Boxing Organization. Frank Warren's old hand puppet formed and conceived to be a place where budding boxers under his wing could have a title to and be a world champion. For a long time the rankings were filled with Warren's kids from Bantam to Heavy. In short it was a clearing house to pad records.
Seems now the organization has outgrown him and shockingly the WBO has begun to have some shred of signifigance and actual titular weight.
So where am I going with my mad rant?
It all began a long time ago in 1976 when ABC and Roone Arledge decided their televised bouts need heft and signifigance. To do this they made the fatal mistake of turning to none other than Don King to solve this by creating a made for TV 'U.S. Boxing Championships'. It was determined to be a contender one would need to be ranked by the boxing bible, Ring Magazine edited by Nat Loubet son-in-law of founder Nat Fleishcer.
Well, predictable results followed ABC made a killing in profits and so did Ring and King. A big happy family however was not to be because it came to light that Ring was fixing ratings of specific fighters who *shock and awe* were also Don king's fighters. This practice included tampering with records and finding suitable title shots for Don's den. With this scandal and notable omissions like Marvin Hagler the news was out. ABC and King and Ring Magazine were not to be trusted.
With this new issue how could it dealt with now with meaningful and credible rankings? Ahhhh enter the alphabet soup of independent sanctions. But is it truly their fault? With Pay per view and cable battling for boxing attractions and the Ring fallen out of favor they turned to the ABCs of boxing for credibility. Now like a vast pestilence tearing through the crops of Pharoah they run things they do now hence my interpretations of the acronym farm of boxing.
But no complete bitch thread is complete without an offered solution. I've been cooking this one in my head a long time now. Boxing needs an athletic board national czar. It's overdue. In the light of decent boxing board leadership coming under unjust fire such as Hazzard a national czar could step in and at least give recourse to answer back the heavy hand of non-sport legislation. They could oversee and audit State commisions to avoid the pitfalls of bribery, corruption and squeeze sanction orgs back to managing purses and keeping their hands out where they don't belong.
Don't get me wrong the national leadership position is in and of itself not without pitfalls. It would need right leadership and good leadership. In short it needs a right person but so many of the alphabet soup chaos going now could be cleaned up with an onpoint national czar. Ultimately I'd like all these independent sanctions answer to a national czar as well as a state one.
Holyfield continually risking health and safety and black eye for boxing could be avoided by not allowing him to merely reapply for license in another state after being denied in New York. Just my thoughts. What are yours?
WBC- We be Collecting. The infamous sanction started by Jose Suliaman now making prmonent the battle for interim titles and the status of interim champ in which you can bea champion and never lift a glove to defend it. Even better an automatic chance at the presumably more prominent WBC title. We be collecting indeed.
IBF - I be felonious. In between investigations by the CIA and FBI for rankings fixing. IBF factually proved it too. IBF has told Top Rank that if Marquez's bout with Chi was not a WBC eliminator then they would put Marquez back to his old ranking. Only problem with that is, they shouldn't have taken him out to begin with.
The organization never notified Top Rank that they were to begin negotiations for a Tapia-Marquez bout, in fact it was on August 27th that they found out that Marquez had been expunged from the ratings. Which handily just happened to be 60 days from when Tapia's mandatory defense was due on October 27th. The IBF gives notice of it's mandatory defenses being due, 60 days in advance.
WBO - Worthless Boxing Organization. Frank Warren's old hand puppet formed and conceived to be a place where budding boxers under his wing could have a title to and be a world champion. For a long time the rankings were filled with Warren's kids from Bantam to Heavy. In short it was a clearing house to pad records.
Seems now the organization has outgrown him and shockingly the WBO has begun to have some shred of signifigance and actual titular weight.
So where am I going with my mad rant?
It all began a long time ago in 1976 when ABC and Roone Arledge decided their televised bouts need heft and signifigance. To do this they made the fatal mistake of turning to none other than Don King to solve this by creating a made for TV 'U.S. Boxing Championships'. It was determined to be a contender one would need to be ranked by the boxing bible, Ring Magazine edited by Nat Loubet son-in-law of founder Nat Fleishcer.
Well, predictable results followed ABC made a killing in profits and so did Ring and King. A big happy family however was not to be because it came to light that Ring was fixing ratings of specific fighters who *shock and awe* were also Don king's fighters. This practice included tampering with records and finding suitable title shots for Don's den. With this scandal and notable omissions like Marvin Hagler the news was out. ABC and King and Ring Magazine were not to be trusted.
With this new issue how could it dealt with now with meaningful and credible rankings? Ahhhh enter the alphabet soup of independent sanctions. But is it truly their fault? With Pay per view and cable battling for boxing attractions and the Ring fallen out of favor they turned to the ABCs of boxing for credibility. Now like a vast pestilence tearing through the crops of Pharoah they run things they do now hence my interpretations of the acronym farm of boxing.
But no complete bitch thread is complete without an offered solution. I've been cooking this one in my head a long time now. Boxing needs an athletic board national czar. It's overdue. In the light of decent boxing board leadership coming under unjust fire such as Hazzard a national czar could step in and at least give recourse to answer back the heavy hand of non-sport legislation. They could oversee and audit State commisions to avoid the pitfalls of bribery, corruption and squeeze sanction orgs back to managing purses and keeping their hands out where they don't belong.
Don't get me wrong the national leadership position is in and of itself not without pitfalls. It would need right leadership and good leadership. In short it needs a right person but so many of the alphabet soup chaos going now could be cleaned up with an onpoint national czar. Ultimately I'd like all these independent sanctions answer to a national czar as well as a state one.
Holyfield continually risking health and safety and black eye for boxing could be avoided by not allowing him to merely reapply for license in another state after being denied in New York. Just my thoughts. What are yours?