At heavyweight, the ability to intimidate and be intimated is multiplied. It's just not as amplified in the lower weight classes There would be less questionable decisions in high-level fights if boxing went back to 15 rounds, which I'm okay with in title unification matches or when more than one belt is on the line. Boxing should embrace the amateur weight class system. The professional weight classes just have too many divisions? Boxing should have the instant reply system which can be used once per corner during the minute off break between rounds. Was it a foul? Did the ref referee blow miss a knockdown? This would allow a correction on the cards if necessary. Boxing should enforce its weight classes, not allowing any one fighter to weigh in than gain more than 5% of their body weight. Any champion must face at least one top ten ranked opponent from Ring Magazine of Fight News barring injuries at least once a year or they lose their title. This would prevent " belt-milking "
M, you are right on many of your points. I would add same day weigh in. Today, guys fighting at 118 can rehydrate to 130-135. Bantams should be bantams but that's not the case anymore. A guy coming down in weight vs a natural bantamweight, the advantage goes to the bigger guy.
Agreed. It's absolute BS with these weight gains and the re-hydration process is a little dangerous. Put a cap on how much they can gain. I'll move the bar to no more than 8 percent above than the limit.
I absolutely agree with this. Divisions are completely skewed when a fighter wins a 'super-featherweight' title whilst weighing nearer the welterweight limit. It's also dangerous when fighter A can outweigh an opponent from the same division by 10 or 15lbs come fight night. A champion should face his top challenger (or at the very least, top three) within a reasonable timeframe. I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the tweener divisions. While I'd like to see 15 rounders back, I don't agree that it would reduce the questionable decisions. There were plenty of controversial results in 15 rounders as well. In a sport where three people essentially pick the winner, you're always going to get disputes.
"At heavyweight, the ability to intimidate and be intimated is multiplied. It's just not as amplified in the lower weight classes" NO "There would be less questionable decisions in high-level fights if boxing went back to 15 rounds, which I'm okay with in title unification matches or when more than one belt is on the line." Unification of nonsense remains nonsense. The belts are nonsense. However, as to the spirit of your question, in true championship bouts, there should be 15 rounds YES "Boxing should embrace the amateur weight class system. The professional weight classes just have too many divisions?" NO "Boxing should have the instant reply system which can be used once per corner during the minute off break between rounds. Was it a foul? Did the ref referee blow miss a knockdown? This would allow a correction on the cards if necessary." MAYBE "Boxing should enforce its weight classes, not allowing any one fighter to weigh in than gain more than 5% of their body weight." MORNING OF WEIGH-INS. "Any champion must face at least one top ten ranked opponent from Ring Magazine of Fight News barring injuries at least once a year or they lose their title. This would prevent " belt-milking "[/quote] GO HERE AND CONSIDER THE ERROR OF YOUR WAYS! www.tbrb.org
yes, marginally yes, but i don't think it'd make a big difference maybe yes, in some form no, some sort of weight passport might work but fighters having the correct amount of fluid in their brains is a good thing. hell yes
Heavyweights have more of a tendancy to tire quicker and a lot of heavyweight fights end with 4 (or more) boring rounds. I'd support 15 rounds for any fight middleweight and under.
I think whomever is the house fighter would ultimately manipulate 3 of those categories/questions and it would not work in a practical application. Or, lets call it the real world. 1. Less questionable decisions....won't change a thing unless there is a stoppage. 2. Instant replay system. Nope. Not changing the house fighter thing. So we'd just get an "inconclusive" type answer from the replay guy in the Chavez-Randall 2 type controversy. That official knows who butters his bread and if he wants future assignments, his voting consists of overturning for the promoter's guy or inconclusive. There is no choice for other guy wins. An example of this is the Bowe-Mathis fight. The best a guy like Mathis is going to get is a technical draw. The house fighter is not getting dq'd in that fight. 3. heavily promoted guy gets the opponents he wants ranked in a favorable position and that bout happens. what doesn't happen is a unification fight or a bout with fighters from competing networks/promoters/etc.
1. Should catch weight bouts be banned altogether? 2. Should a fighter be allowed to carry on with cuts if he wants to? 3. Should there only be one championship belt for each division? 4. If the 12 round bout is declared a draw then should an additional 3 rounds be fought? 5. Should the standing 8 count be s****ped? 6. Should the 3 knockdown rule be binned?
