Shortened races and limited competition: the hidden costs of the Dana White UFC style boxing league.

Dana White revealed how she plans to direct the new TKO Boxing Promotion League that started with Turki Alalshikh. White says he will build it from scratch, using the UFC model as his success plan.

Dana is going to sign the fighters in the League, and will compete and suffer defeats as well as the fighters in the UFC. He says they will get rid of the five different sanctioning bodies and will only have one for their league. It will be impossible to create a monopoly In boxing where only a company operates in isolation. It does not work in other companies and will not work in boxing.

Risk Risks of Carrera

The combatants excluded from this boxing league similar to the clique will continue to follow the four sanctioning bodies, they will still fight in Dazn and will be signed with the popular promoters who now direct the sport.

Being in a league where a handful of quality combatants repeatedly face exhausting fights will probably shorten their careers. Imagine combatants as David Benavidez and David Morrell competing four or five times in each other in a boxing league that follows the UFC model.

Its two races will be shortened due to the punishment they support. Yes, it is entertainment for fans, but it will be hell for fighters who fight repeated difficult fights. The punishment taken by boxers is much more severe than in the UFC. If I were a boxer, I would not want to be in a league where I was always fighting ‘the best’ every time. “You can’t do that in boxing without your career ending quickly.

“People want to see great fights. Boxing has become this in which you have to be undefeated so that people worry about you. All that will disappear, “Dana White said THE FIRST TAKE OF ESPNSpeaking of his new association with Turki Alalshikh to create a boxing league.

“There are many guys who are seeing that they will be on this list that many or”. Everyone will fight each other, and what people want to see are great fights. They want to know who is the best in the world. “

Is this “better”?

If the fighters Dana White and Turki sign with this new boxing league, they only fight against other boys on that list, how will they demonstrate that they are the “Better in the world?“It is not the best. Everything they are really doing is demonstrating that they are the best in that league with the limited number of fighters who compete. It seems that what Turki is doing now works best, choosing great fighters, signing them with short contracts and establishing convincing fights. You do not need an isolated league to do things like that.

It is like the AFL that spread separately from the NFL from 1960 to 1970. The only times that the teams of the two leagues played with each other were in the Super Bowl. During the season, you do not have AFL teams playing NFL teams until they merged in 1970. Creation of a boxing league where combatants only compete against other fighters in that league is limiting. The idea does not work better than the current situation in sport.

“I am implementing simple things, like the best better fight,” White said. “There is a lot of talent that we are seeing at this time that no one knows. What I would like to do is build this from scratch as we did with the UFC. When we originally bought the UFC, we had twelve contracts. You started everyone adjusting to everyone. When you reach the first five, you can’t deny who are the best five types of the world and then everyone fights to see who the world champion is. “

What can the first five in a small league in the world be called when you are talking about a limited group of fighters? White says he started with 12, and states that the first five were the best in the world. What are you talking about? They are only the best in that small business, but not in the world. With this boxing league, if they are going to compete only against other fighters in the league, you can’t call them the best.

The way in which things have gone in the current system are the combatants with the best range, the phosphorus room, Golden Boy and PBC have often focused on establishing fights with men within that promotional company. It has been like four or five different leagues. This new league with Dana White and Turki, is just more of the same thing we have been seeing. The only difference is that Turki has more money to play to attract good fighters. If they are only going to compete with a limited number of boys inside that league, it will not be as interesting as it is now.

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