Mauricio Sulaiman (speaking on the Cracks Podcast) describes a technological system developed with Bali's betting house that uses sensors in boxing gloves plus cameras and AI algorithms to detect when blows land and estimate their power. He argues boxing lacks the depth of performance statistics seen in other sports and attributes slow adoption to the sport's fragmented promotion model, where individual promoters rarely cooperate to fund shared technology.
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We have invested heavily in a system with Bali's. The Bali's betting house, which, in addition to being a hotel and casino, has many applications. We have developed a system with sensors in the gloves that go hand in hand with many cameras, and that generates an algorithm. When the blow is connected, The sensor with the artificial technology gives you a result indicating whether the blow did connect, how powerful it was. It's good. It's very good. Because I do believe that there are few statistics for boxing compared to all that could be had. Right. In baseball, there are millions of statistics. In American football today, you see, even in soccer, everyone uses chips to see how much they ran, and there are patches that measure dehydration. Boxing is still quite rudimentary, quite rudimentary because it doesn't function as an industry. In an industry, you have all the teams in a league that want the other team to do well in the business, right? For the stadium to be full, for the ratings to be good. Here in boxing, each promoter is an individual and they see the promotion together, right? Hopefully it doesn't sell and they get criticized. And instead of working together towards the future, it's not impossible to see them come together and say, let's invest in a technology program for the benefit of several promoters. Yeah.
