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[mooreman]

You can change one thing about how the sport is run or how it appears or what happens in the ring rule wise etc etc...

[cowboy55]

No "ducking" the #1 contender you duck you lose

[Tito]

Have a universal commission that the WBC and other organisations and promoters have to work under. Until Boxing is run fairly and it abolishes all these paper titles the parasites like Arum, Suliaman, Oscar and so on will just run it into the ground taking its credibility and every cent with them.
UFC know how to deal with things on a smaller scale a hundred times better I don't know why the Promoters and so on don't work towards a commission surely if they made more big fights there would be more big name match ups, more money generated and work exposure.

[grizzlyadams]

One title, one set of rankings. To be the best you have to beat the best

[Tuco]

No "ducking" the #1 contender you duck you lose

Floyd wouldn't be pleased about that...

The main hub of boxing seems to be in the USA... apart from the Klits most of the big stars fight in Vegas, I would like to see the show go on the road and around the world, I would love to see Floyd or Cotto fight in the UK Or anywhere in Europe. Similar to how the UFC do it. Even if De La Hoya took his stable of fighters over here...it would be a huge event and great publicity for boxing.

[Red]

Ring girls have to be nude.

[Baz88]

Ring girls have to be nude.

very rarely I can agree with something you say, but yes, very much so.

[Tuco]

The obvious one, random blood testing.

In the light of MMAs recent PED scandel with Chael Sonnen and his high profile and miraculous performance over p4p great Anderson Silva  (Sonnen being a guy that has lost almost half of his career fights and totally dominated Silva until he got careless)
I would like to see blood and urine tests made compulsory across the board. It doesn't completely solve the problem but it will be a major step forward.

XYLOCAINE should also be banned completely, almost every American state have banned it.... there should be a complete ban. no fighter should be aloud a drug or substance to gain the upper hand in competition.

[Tuco]

official Weigh-in on the same night of the fight.

I've never understood why for example that a fight bulit up as say a light-welterweight bout at 140 and the boxers can be up to 1 stone heavier the day of the actual fight. It doesn't make sense.  If the fight is at 140... then the fighters should come in on or around that weight when they enter the ring.
If two fighters make weight even and the next day one of the boxers can weigh 4 or 6 pounds heavier than the other boxer on fight night, that surely is an unfair advantage. I remember Cotto in his light welterweight days would put on a ridiculous amount of weigh. He probably stil does.


Same night weigh-ins .. would really make an even playing field across the board.

[Mal]

One title, one set of rankings. To be the best you have to beat the best

Most definitely.

Get rid of the greedy orgs and leave it to one sanctioning body. Wont happen of course but one can only hope and dream.

Another is putting the judges and refs under more scrutiny from they're sometimes crooked ways.

[pete postlethwaite]

No "ducking" the #1 contender you duck you lose


This is an imperative, the best must fight the best, fiscal concerns and self preservation cannot be allowed to diminish the sport. Its becoming common place for prime fighters to never test their wares against the best possible opposition, this must not be allowed to happen.

Ring girls have to be nude.

It would reignite my interest in live pugilistic combat. I would become a veritable troubadour, travelling the length and breadth of the country whilst engaging in mendacious discourse regarding the merits of two partly clothed contenders. I would work my way to ringside under the auspices of some random journalistic publication. From that rarefied platform I would stare stupefied, again chattering fanatically about the sublime skills of two noble warriors.   My loquacious ramblings would encompass such luminaries as Liebling, Mullan and Mailer, all the while my nefarious intent would be fornication with the disrobed enchantress before me , a drive more compelling and complete than any pugilistic dispute in the history of mankind.  My desire would fuel a rapid ascent, no task would be too great, no pleasantry too small. The primitive urge of propagation would propel me beyond the mediocrity of mankind. In time I would become an uberman! Sadly, the physical union cannot be transcended, equine urges would haunt me, a warped desire poisoned, surrounded by a thousand steel penises, no circumvention possible, choking on my own avidity.

[tomstrong]

I would take away the possibility of a draw! I hate not having a winner on the night.. If it's a draw after 12 rounds, another round should be added to decide a winner..

Also I like the idea of Tuco's weigh in on the fight night! I think this would be very intresting!

[mac-rebel021]

official Weigh-in on the same night of the fight.

I've never understood why for example that a fight bulit up as say a light-welterweight bout at 140 and the boxers can be up to 1 stone heavier the day of the actual fight. It doesn't make sense.  If the fight is at 140... then the fighters should come in on or around that weight when they enter the ring.
If two fighters make weight even and the next day one of the boxers can weigh 4 or 6 pounds heavier than the other boxer on fight night, that surely is an unfair advantage. I remember Cotto in his light welterweight days would put on a ridiculous amount of weigh. He probably stil does.


Same night weigh-ins .. would really make an even playing field across the board.


have to totaly disagree here mate , there was too many disasters when they had same day weigh inns before , fighters being dehydrated fighting is recipe for brain damage or death , they need the full 24hrs to rehyrdarate properly, and besides there is no stopping the other fighter to put on a stone ,not that it matters as sometimes fighters put on too much weight which is a hinderance at times

[Tuco]

Fair point mate,

If that still can't work even if you were to put a 8/10 hour gap between weigh-in and the fight.... then impliment and introduce a much stricter 'Second Weigh-In rule', a rule that doesn't allow a fighter to put on more than 8 pounds from the 1st to the 2nd weigh-in. And have this second weigh-in  4/5 hour before the fight, then at least when the fighters gets in the ring they will virtually weigh the same.
I know there is a same day weigh-in already in use but it's pretty lame and it's not used across the board..

Boxers have to fight on a level playing field.

[deck]

Fair point mate,

If that still can't work even if you were to put a 8/10 hour gap between weigh-in and the fight.... then impliment and introduce a much stricter 'Second Weigh-In rule', a rule that doesn't allow a fighter to put on more than 8 pounds from the 1st to the 2nd weigh-in. And have this second weigh-in  4/5 hour before the fight, then at least when the fighters gets in the ring they will virtually weigh the same.
I know there is a same day weigh-in already in use but it's pretty lame and it's not used across the board..

Boxers have to fight on a level playing field.

If they made them weigh in the morning of the fight you'd have fighters out running to shed weight in the very early morning. It would all lead to some fighters being weak in the ring. 12 rounds is hard enough without suffering from tiredness and dehydration. Recovering from that the day before allows a fighter to get sleep and eat and drink normally for the fight itself rather than it all being about the weigh in.