Could boxing get any worse then Ruiz-Golota this past weekend? A literal foul fest, boring and out of control. Golota "the foul pole" was actually the boxer who did not have a point taken away from him in this one. Ruiz lost a point, had his trainer ejected, and was knocked down twice and still managed to escape with a narrow victory despite being out jabbed and out punched both in quantity of landed punches and connect percentage. Of course this was another great Don King production. People wonder why there is no excitement in the heavyweight division, first you have three champions, why is boxing the only major sport to feel it is neccessary to have three champions? First let's unify the boxing organizations so that there will be only one clear champion at every weight class. We do not have three World Series champions nor three SuperBowl champions so why the need for three boxing champions? They cleary can not all three be the best fighter at their weight class, there is only one best. Second, look at the three heavyweight champions who currently hold the major belts, first is John "one punch and hug" Ruiz, he has to be the most boring fighter I have ever watched. On top of being boring to watch he also regularly commits fouls which makes him easy to dislike, he will never gain overwhelming public support or approval. Second is Chris Byrd, while undersized for a heavyweight at 215, he is also very boring to watch as most of his fight plan is typically focused on playing defense and landing an occassional punch. He also lacks the knockout power that we as fans of the sport desire in our heavyweight champions. Many of us watch the heavyweights to see thunderous punching, not to see boxing strategy, if we wanted to see that we would watch the much quicker, more exciting middleweights. Finally is Vitali Klitschko who quite honestly could be the best of the heavyweight champions at this time, although if you watched the Don King promoted fight the other night you would not know this, since you almost got a feel of him being talked down since he is not a Don King promoted fighter. Klitscko is a big man, a little slow, but has shown heart, a chin, and punching power. That brings us back to the Don King factor. Don King is what is wrong with boxing, especially at the heavyweight level where he has the greatest influence. I heard a comment that Chris Byrd had to sue Don King to get his full guaranteed paycheck for his fight against McCline on Saturday night. Obviously this is not the first time King has been sued by boxers and either lost in court or settled out of court. This has become a habitual problem yet fighters refuse to take a stand and say, I will not fight for you Don King. So he continues to steal money from the actual fighters, give us bad fights that we really do not want to see, and always leave us with the feeling that the fight we just watched was fixed. Don let us see the fighters we want to see in the ring fighting each other, Don will not allow his two champions to fight each other nor we he allow either to fight Klitschko, as long as his fighters hold 2/3 of the important titles he controls the heavyweight division. If he puts Byrd or Ruiz in the ring against Klitschko he loses his control of the division.