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Boxing fans rejoice as Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua finalized for Aug. 14

delta 4 years ago 3 min read

With Tyson Fury confirming via a video on social media Sunday the news that he’ll fight Anthony Joshua for the undisputed heavyweight championship on Aug. 14 in Saudi Arabia, boxing will get its bi-annual opportunity to see how the other half lives.

It will present the best fight it can make in the sport’s most high-profile division and will, for a night, be the focus of the sports universe.

This is one of those rare fights that will capture the attention of folks who don’t even consider themselves boxing fans. It pits the two best heavyweights in the world, who have a combined record of 54-1-1 with 43 knockouts, against each other in an event that can only be described as a spectacle.

It will be the boxer versus the puncher, the brash, colorful Fury versus the private, measured Joshua.

We’ll also hear all the tropes about the demise of boxing and how the sport needs this fight to save it. That is, and has been for a long time, utter nonsense.

Boxing has plenty of problems and the most significant of them all stem from the fact that there is no single regulatory body that regulates it. But a lot of people — fighters, promoters, managers and trainers — make a lot of money from the sport.

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This is not a sport that is dead, though, and no matter the commercial success of Fury-Joshua, this bout won’t save boxing.

Not, of course, that it needs to be saved. It most assuredly does not.https://embed.fireplace.yahoo.com/embed/7881a6c0-4f4d-46d2-a0b2-e89d4b5381fc?articleId=copy-paste-1617714947117&ctrl=SportsPromo&m_id=sportspromos&x_ap_enrich=.html

Now, it could use a collective kick in the pants. We should start with the utter garbage World Boxing Association (WBA), which has sold out to such a degree that there has been somewhat of a push from within the sport to ignore it. The WBA is the organization that has ranked a dead man and has more champions per division than Nick Saban has security guards on a football Saturday in Tuscaloosa.

Joshua holds the WBA belt, along with the IBF and WBO belts. But Trevor Bryan — ever heard of him? — owns a WBA heavyweight championship. So does Mahmoud Charr. And Robert Helenius is something called the WBA gold champion.

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Colorado Office of Combative Sports and Colorado Combative Sports Commission

The Colorado Office of Combative Sports and Colorado Combative Sports Commission (Office) is responsible for all rules to regulate the conduct, promotion and performance of boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts in the state. The Office licenses participants, seconds, officials, and promoters. Licensure is mandatory in Colorado.

The Office’s purpose is to protect the safety of participants and promote the public trust and confidence in the conduct of professional boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts by regulating four professions that relate to the operation of live professional events, performances, and contests held in Colorado.The Office’s activities include licensing, bout approvals, determination of discipline, and enforcement of discipline for those who violate the Colorado Statutes and the Office of Boxing Rules.

The seven-member Commission is comprised of three members appointed by the Governor, one member appointed by the Senate President, and one member appointed by the Speaker of the House. In addition, there are two non-voting members who are licensed physicians and serve as advisors to the commission and the office.