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Bryan Swartz · 08-23-2014, 02:30 AM

The title is admittedly overly grandiose. Contained herein will be an alternate history based on the concept of creating an even playing field throughout boxing's history. Compared to most here I know very little of it, and that's one of the attractions for me: getting to know fighters I know little about or even have never heard of. A lot of the setup I've borrowed from the excellent work of others, particulary Conn Chris, but I haven't seen anything quite like what I'm going to attempt here.

RULES

** All historical fighters will be used, none will be created. I'm not modifying any nationalities or weight classes, everything will be taken as is in the database(2.5).
** Default aging numbers will be used(45-95 bouts) with one change to make 15 fights required for a fighter to be ranked. This was chosen so that at a minimum, everyone will be ranked by the time they hit Prime.
** All fighters will debut at age 18 and fight four times a year(except for times when an odd number of fighters requires one to be idle for a season).
** Eventually three tiers of titles will be created: world, regional, and national. World and national are pretty self-explanatory: the regions I will be using are North America, Central America(including the Carribean), South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania -- eight in all.
** At the beginning, fighters can only compete against others in their own region. Because of this, two fighters in the same region(even if not of the same class) are required for informal competition involving random fights against a pool of all possible opponents. Sanctioning of an official title fight and more structured scheduling will occur when there are six ranked fighters(to create a champion and Top 5 challengers) in the same region and class; and as the number of fighters grow the sophistication of each division will grow with it.
** Once there are enough retired fighters to justify it, I'll run a double-elimination GOAT tournament at the start of each decade to keep a running account of who the 'greatest ever' is as the history progresses. Entrance into this competition, which I'll refer to as the Champions pool, requires a fighter to have held, however briefly, the top spot at the highest level of competition available to them. Nobody will be officially added until they retire.

That should be enough explanation for now, I hope this proves entertaining.

08-23-2014, 02:30 AM	#1
Bryan Swartz Major Leagues Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 457	The Way It Should Have Been(Alternate History) The title is admittedly overly grandiose. Contained herein will be an alternate history based on the concept of creating an even playing field throughout boxing's history. Compared to most here I know very little of it, and that's one of the attractions for me: getting to know fighters I know little about or even have never heard of. A lot of the setup I've borrowed from the excellent work of others, particulary Conn Chris, but I haven't seen anything quite like what I'm going to attempt here. RULES All historical fighters will be used, none will be created. I'm not modifying any nationalities or weight classes, everything will be taken as is in the database(2.5). Default aging numbers will be used(45-95 bouts) with one change to make 15 fights required for a fighter to be ranked. This was chosen so that at a minimum, everyone will be ranked by the time they hit Prime. All fighters will debut at age 18 and fight four times a year(except for times when an odd number of fighters requires one to be idle for a season). Eventually three tiers of titles will be created: world, regional, and national. World and national are pretty self-explanatory: the regions I will be using are North America, Central America(including the Carribean), South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania -- eight in all. At the beginning, fighters can only compete against others in their own region. Because of this, two fighters in the same region(even if not of the same class) are required for informal competition involving random fights against a pool of all possible opponents. Sanctioning of an official title fight and more structured scheduling will occur when there are six ranked fighters(to create a champion and Top 5 challengers) in the same region and class; and as the number of fighters grow the sophistication of each division will grow with it. Once there are enough retired fighters to justify it, I'll run a double-elimination GOAT tournament at the start of each decade to keep a running account of who the 'greatest ever' is as the history progresses. Entrance into this competition, which I'll refer to as the Champions pool, requires a fighter to have held, however briefly, the top spot at the highest level of competition available to them. Nobody will be officially added until they retire. That should be enough explanation for now, I hope this proves entertaining. Last edited by Bryan Swartz; 08-23-2014 at 02:36 AM.