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Anonymous
Its common opinion among most boxing enthusiasts that boxing has gone down hill because of the sanctioning bodies allowing the sport to be controlled by idiots like Don King, who are only interested in money. The sport is filled with paper champs padding their records in no contest bouts. More control needs to be in the hands of the boxers themselves, and less should be in the hands of their agents/managers. Either that or they should establish a tournament style schedule like other sports. There would have to be an off season designated to training and making weight, so that theres no excuse to manipulate the schedule (ie: feign injury or avoid making weight to skip fights while other guys are taking fights and getting battered). Fighters would have less of a chance to study specific opponents, and get super conditioned, but then again those things are arguably the reason for the over technical, watered down nature of modern boxing.
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