Tim Bradley bought on his soapbox this week to lecture Turki Al-Sheikh, telling him that he has completed nothing to enhance boxing apart from making some “good fights.” Tim feels that after Turki leaves the game, issues will probably be simply as unhealthy as earlier than he arrived.
Commissioner Callout
Bradley says he needs Turki to create a commissioner-like individual that “oversees” the game in the identical manner because the NFL and NBA. These leagues have appointed commissioners that oversee the administration and path of the groups.
It’s unclear whether or not Turki would need to shoulder that sort of duty, as it will be loads of onerous work. He appears extra involved in making good fights between fighters that he selects. It will be a full-time job for Turki to change into the boxing commissioner if he may make that occur.
“Why don’t you assist us construct a union so the fighters can stand sturdy and get their promoter or no matter,” mentioned Tim Bradley on social media, lecturing Turki Al-Sheikh. “Why don’t you give us a World Boxing Council, somebody that appears over the whole [sport]? I do know we’ve bought the WBC, however you recognize what I imply.
“Somebody to supervise just like the NFL [i.e., Commissioner for management of the sport, appointed by the teams in the league] and the NBA [commissioner, similar to the NFL, appointed by teams].
“You’ll be able to have the headquarters in America, and you may have the headquarters over there [Saudi Arabia], they usually can all work collectively to deliver boxing again collectively the proper manner. You do stuff like that, then you definately get my consideration. You do stuff like that, then I get behind you.
“I’ll get behind you, Turki, for actual, as a result of that’s what boxing actually wants. Whenever you’re gone, Turki, while you resolve to go, we’re going to be again to sq. one. You made some nice fights [e.g., Fury vs. Usyk & Beterbiev vs. Bivol], however boxing hasn’t modified a factor. You haven’t modified s***.
Fixing Boxing’s Future
“So, my boxing viewpoint is totally different from y’all viewpoint. Y’all getting the fights that you really want, which is nice. It’s unbelievable, however that’s not going to resolve all the problems that boxing has. We’d like one governing physique overlooking the whole sport,” mentioned Bradley.
Tim Bradley says if Turki REALLY needs to save lots of Boxing 🥊, “he wants to begin a union for outdated and new fighters and have boxing beneath one governing physique that guidelines over the whole sport just like the NBA and NFL.
Turk is simply placing a band-aid on boxing-
🎥 @Timbradleyjr #Boxing pic.twitter.com/IRDdpYgurH
— Pound4Pound (@Pound4our4Pound) January 17, 2025
Prior to now, promoters worldwide placed on many high-priced, low-quality playing cards, and far of the curiosity in boxing disappeared. Too many occasions have been put behind a PPV paywall, stopping followers from seeing fights until they have been prepared to pay $70 to observe largely mismatches.
The promoters made issues worse by all the time matching their fighters in opposition to opponents who couldn’t win. That also goes on right now, and we’ve even seen it on a few of Turki’s playing cards with promoters stacking the undercards in fights with no aggressive worth.
