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Tim Bradley got on the soapbox this week to lecture Turkey Al Sheik, telling him he’s done nothing to improve boxing other than fight “good fights.” Tim feels that once Turkey leaves the sport, things will fall apart just as they did before he arrived.
Commissioner call
Bradley Turki said he wants to create a commissioner-like figure to “manage” the sport, similar to the NFL and NBA. Those leagues appointed commissioners to oversee the management and direction of the teams.
It is not clear whether Turki would want to take on such a responsibility as he has a lot of work to do. He seems more interested in having a good fight between his chosen fighters. If Turkey can do it, being a boxing commissioner is a full-time job.
“Why don’t you help us build an alliance so that the fighters can stand strong,” Tim Bradley told Turki Al Sheikh on social media. “Why don’t you give us the World Boxing Council, someone who looks at the whole (sport)? I know we have the WBC, but you know what I mean.
One person oversees the NFL (i.e., the commissioner of the sport, appointed by the teams in the league) and the NBA (commissioner, similar to the NFL, appointed by the teams).
“You can have the headquarters in America, and you can have the headquarters there (Saudi Arabia) and they can all work together to bring boxing in the right direction. You do things like that, and then you get my attention. You do such things, then I will be behind you.
“Honestly, Turkey, I’ll be behind you, because that’s what boxing needs. When you go turkey, when you decide to go, we’re back to square one. You’ve done some great fights (eg: Fury vs. Usyk & Beterbiev vs. Bivol), but boxing hasn’t changed anything. You didn’t change S.
Fixing the future of boxing
“So my view of boxing is different from all of you. You all get the battles you want, which is great. That’s great, but that doesn’t solve all of the issues the box has. “We need one governing body that looks at the whole sport,” Bradley said.
If Turkey wants to save boxing, Tim Bradley says, “It needs to form an association for old and new fighters and put boxing under one governing body like the NBA and NFL.”
Turkey is putting a band-aid on boxing.
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In the past, promoters around the world put on high-priced, low-quality cards and lost interest in boxing. Too many events sit behind a PPV paywall, preventing fans from seeing the fights unless they’re willing to pay $70 to see most of the matches.
The promoters always made it worse by pairing their fighters with opponents who couldn’t beat them. That’s still going on, and we’ve seen promoters stack cards on the bottom of some of the turkey cards in fights that have no contest value.
