When Yunier Dorticos takes on Dmitry Kudryashov in San Antonio on Saturday night, it’ll be the third-straight weekend of the World Boxing Super Series. It’s two eight-man tournaments featuring two weight classes that are some of the least glamorous in boxing (the cruiserweights and the super middleweights). But Richard Schaefer, the former CEO of Golden Boy Promotions who now runs Ringstar Sports, is excited about the possibilities the World Boxing Super Series presents. “Where they don’t feel threatened and they don’t feel like we’re going to take away promotional rights from their particular fighters. As you see this unfold, whoever wins the cruiserweight or the super middleweight tournament, those fighters will go back to their respective promoters.
Source: Forbes September 23, 2017 12:33 UTC