IT’S TIME TO CREATE THE DREADNAUGHT DIVISION
It would be truly unbelievable for this game to have the visuals of Fight Night where each Boxer actually resembles the real person. It'd be a lot of fun to be able to select the color & style of trunks, gloves and shoes that a Boxer wears into the ring, using all kinds of styles that were in fashion in different time periods, going all the way back to the days of John L. Sullivan. I realize that there might be immense and likely intractable legal obstacles to overcome using the likeness of any living Boxer without their permission and being remunerated for the right to do so. Most likely, even the most famous Boxers who are no longer alive may have people/corporations that own the rights to their usage. In this event, obviously the only way around that would be to do what people did years ago with NBA Live. Individuals would provide the video likeness of the players for free on the internet. In many instances these free likeness, for example, Julius Irving or Bob Cousy would be superior to those in the actual game. I realize with the simulations that do not emphasize Video graphics, they have no problem using the athlete's names and their statistics in creating a PC Avatar that performs as the actual player does in reality, which is of course the most important attribute of any sport simulation. For any sport simulation to be good, it has to be as realistic as possible. The Sports game has to mimic the actual sport in all areas and the players must perform realistically. Johnny Unitas has to play like Johnny Unitas from his ability to throw accurate long, medium and short, to his ability to call audibles and play under pressure. Joe Louis has to possess all the attributes in every category of boxing as accurately as possible so that gamer gets the opportunity to see the avatar of Joe Louis perform in a manner that realistically manifests the manner in which Joe Louis actually did. Of course when Joe Louis is matched up against John L. Sullivan or Vitali Klitschko, the PC Programmer has to extrapolate how such a match would unfold if it were possible to put these Boxers in a ring at the prime of their careers as if a Time Machine were available and this could actually occur. In Boxing, I think the one aspect that Title Bout should take into consideration in the Heavyweight Division is the size differences in the Champions like Jack Dempsey and Rocky Marciano who were less than 6 feet tall and weighed only 185 lbs. In the present, there really is no division available for a Boxer who is at his best at 185 lbs. Dempsey, Marciano, Corbett, Ezzard Charles & Jimmy Braddock wouldn't be able to fight for a Title weighing 185lbs. It's too much weight for the Lightheaveyweight Division and while in theory qualifies for the Cruiserweight Division, since the maximum Weight increased to 200lbs; there has never been a Championship Bout where one of the participants weighed less than 190 lbs. The actually should be a Junior Heavyweight Division or the creation of a Dreadnaught Division which was proposed by Boxing Officials after Earnie Schaaf died after being beat by Primo Canera. The original Dreadnaught Division was a concept that was tantamount to the Super Heavyweight Division that's used in the present day Olympics. However, I would suggest rolling back the Cruiserweight division back to 190 lbs, and the Dreadnaught Division's parameters being from 191 lbs to 200 lbs. Although I still think most championship Bouts in the Cruiserweight Division would feature principles within a few pounds of the 190 lb limit, and very rarely would any Boxer compete in a Title Bout at 185 lbs, at least then there would be a Division where a 185 lb Boxer would have a possibility of becoming Champion. Right now, even though the Cruiserweight Limit is only 200 lbs, when did anyone ever win the Cruiserweight Championship weighing between 180-185 lbs?