{"id":69241,"date":"2025-08-14T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:48:23","slug":"boxings-broken-system-nears-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69241\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing\u2019s Broken System Nears Breaking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wildmanThu Aug 14, 2025, 12:56 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>As long as we tolerate these alphabet organizations, boxing will continue to die. Crooked promoters in bed with these organizations, a lack of free television coverage. Those are major issues as well. Fighters don&#8217;t get exposure and aren&#8217;t brought along properly any more. Guys are fighting for belts and on ppv when no one even<\/p>\n<p>CubanGuyNYCThu Aug 14, 2025, 10:27 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Much like society at-large. It\u2019s endemic.<\/p>\n<p>BobThu Aug 14, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Take Joe Calzaghe, at 21-0 he couldn&#8217;t afford his rent. Forward to today, Itauma a 12 fight novice whos boxed nobody is on ppv &amp; on 1 or 2 fights per year already. He&#8217;s talking about money (just like Aj) over legacy already.<br \/>\nThe systems broken &amp; its breeding an entitled to generation of boxers.<\/p>\n<p>THCWed Aug 13, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Boxing needs a fighter&#8217;s union to govern how the sport functions, in and ouf of the ring. So long as broadcasters and promoters control it, fans will forever suffer from current symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Business e-n-t-i-t-i-e-s would need to win bids on fight cards announced by the union.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctioning groups are also business e-n-t-i-t-i-e-s<\/p>\n<p>The D3vilTue Aug 12, 2025, 11:37 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The crazy thing is, a few years ago, it seemed like boxing was turning a corner when Turki first emerged &amp; we were getting Crawford\/Spence, finally.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it feels more hopeless than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"wildmanThu Aug 14, 2025, 12:56 PM UTC As long as we tolerate these alphabet organizations, boxing will continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-69241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}