fox wrote:It would be good if they had a tournament like that for the middleweights. It would be good viewing but not necessarily the best fighter would win it. The 3 round format would suit some, but some of the better fighters need more rounds to get going. JMO.
Sure mate, that's the thing with these eight man knockout comps, they're fast paced, can get some match-ups that wouldn't normally come about and it may put a loss on records, but so what. I think that these are good for boxing, there should be more of them, so K1 fighter Steve Moxon may beat Micheal Zerafa (for example, hypothetically) over three rounds, doesn't nessecarily mean it would be the same over ten, and there's no shame in having that loss on the record (there should be no shame in having any loss on one's record) so they both wake up the next day, after a good, fast paced workout, with some good coin in the sky rocket and us boxing fans are the winners. In the early days of K1, the final was five rounds, that's something to consider.
In the old days, world champs fought unranked fighters over short distances to keep busy and keep financial, they some times had clauses such naming the number of rounds it would take to get the opponent in the shower's early, if they, for example, nominated three rounds, and the opponent was still standing at the end of the third, then the opponent won. I think all this sort of thing to bring excitement back to boxing would be awesome.
Imagine getting (for example) to see Sam Soliman, Daniel Geale and Jarrod Fletcher fighting Wes Capper, Dwight Richie, Micheal Zerafa, Leroy Brown and Steve Moxon without them being worried about their rankings and titles being effected?!
