Five things Bob Arum would change about Boxing

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Bob Arum's top five things he would change about boxing:

1) The first thing that I would change is that there should be one recognized champion in each weight division.

The plethora of championship belts that we have now, plus interim champions and silver belt champions is absolutely confusing to the public and is bad for the sport of boxing.

2) I would some howhave only one sanctioning body that would determine who is the champion and who is to fight whom. So instead of having four or five sanctioning bodies which just compound the confusion.

3) I would do what I could to elminate the horror that is now amateur boxing, both in the United States, and, around the world.

The U.S. group that runs amateur boxing is turning away or scaring away really good, young fighters who are turning pro earlier and earlier because they can't tolerate what they believe is the malfeasance in the running of boxing in the United States.

I would also somehow kick out all of people who run the amatuer boxing worldwide, because they do a horrible job and appear to be from everything that I read dispicable people.

4) I would have a federal boxing commission that would have overall supervision of the sport in the United States, and I would minimize the role of the state athletic commissions with regard to physicals and so forth and the nitty-gritty in regard to putting on the event.

I would allow the state athletic commission to appoint doctors, etc., but I would minimize the role of the states athletic commission and have the federal commission play a major role in running boxing.

5) I would have somebody address the question of how we're going to create some type of pension plan for fighters which is fair and reasonable and puts the burden on everybody involved in boxing from the promoters to the managers and to the fighters themselves.

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3 and 5 could probably be very easily improved if some of the frankly preposterous and unecessary figures that top fighters and people like arum himself get paid for big fights was siphoned into grass roots boxing and fighter pension funds etc.

i doubt arum wants change enough for that to happen though.